Carl Arendts
Carl Arendts (born July 15, 1815 in Ingolstadt , † October 12, 1881 in Possenhofen ) was a German geographer .
Life
Carl Arendts began to study mineralogy and geology at the Ludwig Maximilians University . In 1835 he became a member of the Corps Suevia Munich . He moved to the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen . To the Dr. phil. doctorate, he was from 1847 to 1874 professor of geography and natural history at the Bavarian Cadet Corps in Munich. In 1869 he founded the Geographische Gesellschaft München and was its secretary until his death. On October 13, 1874, he was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . He wrote numerous geographic textbooks and maps and edited the first three volumes of the Deutsche Rundschau for Geography and Statistics. Arendts was buried in Pöcking on October 14th at his own request .
See also
literature
- Eugen Marx : Dr. Carl Arendts . In: Friedrich Umlauft (Hrsg.): German review for geography and statistics . IVth year. A. Hartleben, Vienna, Pest, Leipzig 1882, geographic necrologist, deaths, p. 92-93 .
- Carl Arendts . In: Richard Kiepert (Ed.): Globus . Illustrated journal for country and ethnology with special focus on anthropology and ethnology. tape 41 , no. 12 . Friedrich Vieweg and Son, Braunschweig 1882, necrologist, p. 190 .
Web links
- Carl Arendts in the German biography
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 115/322.
- ^ Member entry by Carl Arendts at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on October 4, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arendts, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 15, 1815 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ingolstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 12, 1881 |
| Place of death | Possenhofen |