Franz Thorbecke (geographer)

Franz Heinrich Thorbecke (born November 8, 1875 in Heidelberg , † August 12, 1945 in Winterstein near Tabarz ) was a German geographer .

Life and accomplishments

Franz Thorbecke was initially a teacher in the Baden school service and then became an assistant at the Geography Institute of Heidelberg University . From 1894 to 1897 he was an active member of the Leonensia student union . From 1907/08 Thorbecke took part in an expedition of the Reich Colonial Office to West and Central Cameroon. After his return he worked as a lecturer at the commercial college in Mannheim . From 1911 to 1913 he led another extensive research expedition of the German Colonial Society to the colony of Cameroon , in which his wife, Marie-Pauline Thorbecke , whom he married in 1909, also took part. His studies of central Cameroon laid the basis for geographic research there. In 1917 he became a professor at the Geographical Institute of the Cologne Commercial College , which later became the University of Cologne . In 1926 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Thorbecke's extensive library and map collection is now part of the University and City Library of Cologne .

Fonts

• The oceanic-subtropical climate and the areas of the Etesia and winter rains . In: Geographical Journal . Volume 16, 1910
• The Manenguba highlands . ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1911, OCLC 48489953 (inaugural dissertation University of Heidelberg 1910, 33 pages); also in: Communications from the German Protected Areas , Volume XXIV, 1911, 5th issue, pp. 279-311 OCLC 164855463 .
• Djutitza, the cattle post of the Dschang military station. Report of the research trip of the German Colonial Society to Cameroon . In: Journal for Colonial Policy, Colonial Law and Colonial Economy . Volume 14, 1912, pp. 836-838
• Africa , part 1: General overview , Ferdinand Hirt, Bresslau 1929, DNB 36845956X
• In the highlands of central Cameroon . 3 volumes, Friedrichsen, Hamburg 1914-19, a 4th volume in 2 parts from Friedrichsen, Hamburg, 1924 and (edited by Marie Thorbecke) from Cram, de Gruyter, Hamburg 1954, DNB 455058199
  • 1, The trip. Impressions and observations 1914.
  • 2, Anthropogeography of East Mbam Land 1916.
  • 3, Contributions to the ethnology of the East Mbam country 1919. Marie Thorbecke named as co-author.
  • 4a, The Map of East Mbam Land 1924.
  • 4b, Physical Geography of East Mbam Land 1951.

literature

• Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon. Volume 3, Leipzig 1920, p. 479.
• Rainer Hennings: Franz Thorbecke, Africa researcher or: What is a Mannheim professor doing in Cameroon? , City of Mannheim, Mannheim 1980

Web links

• Works by and about Franz Thorbecke  in the German Digital Library
• The Franz Thorbecke library in the University and City Library of Cologne

Individual evidence

1. ^ Carl Troll: Fritz Jaeger. A researcher's life . In: Fränkische Geographische Gesellschaft (Hrsg.): Communications of the Fränkische Geographische Gesellschaft . tape 15/16 , 1969, p. 4 ( fgg-erlangen.de ).
2. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Franz Thorbecke