Christian Sandler

Christian Sandler (born July 18, 1858 in Kulmbach (Upper Franconia), † February 1, 1912 in Munich ) was a German geographer and private scholar.

Life

Sandler studied geography and geology in Munich, Leipzig, Edinburgh and Berlin. In 1886 he received his doctorate from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In addition to numerous articles in scientific journals such as the magazine of the Society for Geography, the magazine for scientific geography, communications from the Geography Association and communications from the Geographical Society, he wrote several works on cartography and maps.

Sandler was best known for his “People's Maps”, in which he for the first time graphically displayed the differentiated distribution of population density . “... the absolute numbers of the non-arable population by means of different hatching, by colors on the signatures also how much of the hundred of the population belong to trade and traffic, and finally by inscribing on the map the distribution of particularly important products and trades ... "

He lived as a private scholar in Munich.

Fonts

Johann Baptista Homann: a contribution to the history of cartography. Dissertation. 1886. In: Journal of the Society for Geography. 1886.
Johann Baptist Homann (1664–1724) and his maps. Compiled by Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2009, ISBN 978-3-936030-01-3 .
Matthäus Seutter (1678–1757) and his maps. In: Messages from the Geography Association in Leipzig. 1894. (Reprint: Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2009, ISBN 978-3-936030-03-7 ).
Die Anianstrasse and Marco Polo , in: Journal of the Society for Geography in Berlin, 1894.
The Homann heirs (1724–1852) and their maps: The life and work of Johann Georg Ebersperger (1695–1760) and Johann Michael Franz (1700–1761). In: Journal of Scientific Geography. 1890. (Reprint: Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2006, ISBN 3-936030-04-9 ).
People's maps, maps of the distribution of the population in the administrative district of Upper Franconia ... , Munich 1899.
The reformation of cartography around 1700. Oldenbourg, 1905. (Reprint: Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2002, ISBN 3-936030-30-8 ).
A Bavarian Jesuit geographer , Heinrich Scherer , in: Mitteilungen der Geographische Gesellschaft in München, Vol. 2, 1906.

Web links

Literature by and about Christian Sandler in the catalog of the German National Library
Search for Christian Sandler in the German Digital Library
Search for Christian Sandler in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
Sandler in the digitization center of the Bavarian State Library

Individual evidence

^ Meyer's Large Conversational Lexicon. Volume 17. Leipzig 1909, p. 542.
^ Christian Sandler: Volkskarten. Maps showing the distribution of the population in the administrative district of Upper Franconia, Garmisch district office, Duchy of Oldenburg, in the Lichtenfels area and in the 9th district of the city of Munich . Munich, around 1898.
^ Ernst Ambrosius: The population density on the German Lower Rhine. Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1901. (Dissertation University of Leipzig) (online at: archive.org )

personal data
SURNAME	Sandler, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German geographer and private scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	July 18, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kulmbach
DATE OF DEATH	February 1, 1912
Place of death	Munich

[1] Meyer's Large Conversational Lexicon. Volume 17. Leipzig 1909, p. 542.

[2] Christian Sandler: Volkskarten. Maps showing the distribution of the population in the administrative district of Upper Franconia, Garmisch district office, Duchy of Oldenburg, in the Lichtenfels area and in the 9th district of the city of Munich . Munich, around 1898.

[3] Ernst Ambrosius: The population density on the German Lower Rhine. Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1901. (Dissertation University of Leipzig) (online at: archive.org )