Friedrich Hahn (geographer)

Friedrich Gustav Hahn (born March 3, 1852 in Glauzig , † February 5, 1917 in Königsberg i. Pr. ) Was a German geographer and university professor.

Life

He passed his Abitur in 1871 at the Thomas School in Leipzig . Hahn taught after his habilitation (1879) as a private lecturer at the University of Leipzig and since 1885 as an associate professor at the Albertus University of Königsberg . In 1886 he was appointed full professor of geography in Königsberg. In 1899/1900 he was rector of the University of Königsberg.

Hahn mainly dealt with settlement geography and traffic geography . He traveled through Africa several times. He is also known as the author of the work Africa of General Studies . From 1905 Hahn was chairman of the Central Commission for Scientific Regional Studies in Germany . In the Geographical Yearbook he reported on Africa and Australia for 20 years .

Works

Investigations into the rise and fall of the coast. A contribution to general geography . Leipzig 1879.
Africa (Leipzig 1901, 1906; volume from Sievers ' Allgemeine Länderkunde )

literature

Franz Neubert: German contemporary lexicon. Biographical handbook of contemporary German men and women , Leipzig 1905.
German Biographical Encyclopedia , Vol. 4. Munich 1996.

portrait

Photograph by G. [eorg] Brokesch , Leipzig, cabinet format (?), Handwritten curriculum vitae on the reverse for the Société de Géographie , Paris, dated May 16, 1984, ( Bibliothèque nationale de France , bnf )

Web links

Literature by and about Friedrich Hahn in the catalog of the German National Library
Overview of the courses of Friedrich Hahn (geographer) at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1879 to winter semester 1885)

Individual evidence

↑ Richard Sachse, Karl Ramshorn, Reinhart Herz: The teachers of the Thomasschule in Leipzig 1832-1912. The high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1845–1912 . BG Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1912, p. 53.
^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Wurzburg 2002

personal data
SURNAME	Hahn, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hahn, Friedrich Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German geographer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 3, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH	Credulous
DATE OF DEATH	February 5, 1917
Place of death	Koenigsberg i. Pr.

[1] Richard Sachse, Karl Ramshorn, Reinhart Herz: The teachers of the Thomasschule in Leipzig 1832-1912. The high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1845–1912 . BG Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1912, p. 53.

[2] Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Wurzburg 2002