Carl Uhlig

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Uhlig as a member of the Leonensia and Frisia connections (around 1892)
Carl Uhlig in the Professorengalerie in Tübingen
The Kibo (6010 m) of Kilimandjaro seen from 3900 m altitude. South side. After a photo by Carl Uhlig.

Carl Uhlig (born August 29, 1872 in Heidelberg , † September 12, 1938 in Tübingen ) was a German meteorologist and geographer .

Live and act

Born as the son of Gustav Uhlig , Carl Uhlig studied geography , natural sciences , mathematics and physics in Heidelberg, Halle , Göttingen and Berlin after attending the Heidelberg high school . During his studies in Heidelberg in 1890 he became a member of the connection Leonensia ; In Göttingen he became a member of the fraternity and later fraternity Frisia in 1892 . After his employment in the Reichsdienst from 1900 to 1906 as a meteorologist and geographer for the government of German East Africa , Uhlig was initially a lecturer at the University of Berlin and from 1910 to 1937 professor of geography at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , where he was rector in 1926/27. In 1901 he conducted research on Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru . The first ascent to the summit of the Meru is attributed to Carl Uhlig in 1901 and Fritz Jaeger in 1904. The main article on Kilimanjaro and other articles in the German Colonial Lexicon from 1920 come from Uhlig.

In 1904 Uhlig was back on Kilimanjaro and on the East African fracture zone and on Lake Victoria . During this expedition with Jaeger, Uhlig discovered the Engaruka ruins . The two researchers camped on the Engaruka Stream on September 29 and October 5, 1904 . Both did not elaborate on this discovery in their later documents or publications.

In 1903 Uhlig toured Egypt and in 1906 the Transvaal and the Cape Colony . From 1907 he read regional studies of German East Africa at the Oriental Seminar in Berlin, completed his habilitation in 1908 at the University of Berlin and in 1910 became a full professor of geography in Tübingen. From May to October 1910, Uhlig carried out an expedition to investigate Lake Magad on behalf of the German-East African Study Syndicate . In 1914 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . He was an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University .

Uhlig glacier

A small single glacier on the western flank of the Kibo, in the Western Breach, was named after Uhlig as the Uhlig glacier , but is not shown on all historical glacier maps of Kilimanjaro. The glacier was located at an altitude of around 5200 m between the Small Penck Glacier and the Arrow Glacier . In the course of the retreat of the glacier on Kilimanjaro, the Uhlig glacier has already melted completely. It was still entered as a fragment on a glacier map from 1997.

Publications

  • Carl Uhlig: Rain measurements from Usambara , Berlin, 1903
  • Carl Uhlig: Economic map of German East Africa , Berlin, 1904
  • Carl Uhlig: From Kilimanjaro to Meru , Berlin 1904
  • Carl Uhlig and Fritz Jaeger: The East African fracture stage and the adjacent areas between the lakes Magad and Lawa ja Mweri and the west foot of the Meru , Leipzig, 1909
  • Carl Uhlig, article in: Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon / ed. by Heinrich Schnee, Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer, 1920, 3 volumes

literature

  • Fritz Jaeger : Carl Uhlig in memory . In: Geographical Journal . tape 44 , no. 11 , 1938, pp. 401-408 .
  • Friedrich Seebaß (Ed.): Festschrift for Carl Uhlig: For his 60th birthday presented by his friends and students . Hohenlohe'sche Buchhandlung Rau, Öhringen 1932.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 80-82.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. P. 509.
  2. ↑ Deutsches-Kolonial-Lexikon , Carl Uhlig in the German-Kolonial-Lexikon
  3. ^ Archives for Geography , Finding aid Carl Uhlig (1872–1938)
  4. ↑ a b www.ntz.info , information about Carl Uhlig at www.ntz.info
  5. ^ Detlev Kostka : Carl Uhlig .
  6. ^ Member entry by Carl Uhlig at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 18, 2016.
  7. ^ Peter Rotter: Tanzania, Kilimanjaro (trekking guide for mountaineers and individual travelers) 6th edition 1997, Brigitte Rotter own publisher
personal data
SURNAME Uhlig, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German meteorologist and geographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1938
Place of death Tübingen