Georg Hassel

Johann Georg Heinrich Hassel (born December 30, 1770 in Wolfenbüttel , † January 18, 1829 in Weimar ) was a German geographer.

Life

Initially the official actuary in Wolfenbüttel, he was director of the statistical office in Kassel from 1809 to 1813. In 1815 he became Braunschweig representative in Paris and had lived as a privateer in Weimar since 1816, where he worked with Bertuch at the Landesindustriecomptoir. In 1828 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Since 1827 he was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .

He was since 1819 - u. a. with Johann Günther Friedrich Cannabich and Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths - co-editors of the series Complete Manual of the Latest Description of the Earth , founded by Adam Christian Gaspari , which appeared in seven sections in Weimar from 1818 to 1832, as well as - with Wilhelm Müller - the second main section of the General Encyclopedia Sciences and arts by Johann Samuelansch and Johann Gottfried Gruber .

Works

Statistical repertory on the Kingdom of Westphalia . Brunswick 1815

Geographical-statistical description of the principalities of Wolfenbüttel and Blankenburg . Friedrich Bernhard Culemann, Braunschweig 1802 ( digitized ).
The latest country and ethnology: a reader for all classes. Sixth volume. Holland and Westphalia. With cards and coppers. Geographical and statistical outline of the Kingdom of Holland. Prague, 1809 in the Diesbach bookshop.
Textbook of statistics of European countries . Weimar 1812
Manual of the latest earth description and statistics . Berlin 1816–1817, 2 departments
General European State and Address Book for 1816 . Weimar 1817-1818, 4 vols.
Hand-held geographic-statistical dictionary. According to the latest sources and resources . Verlag des Geographisches Institut, Weimar 1817, 2 volumes (digitized from vol. 1: A – K and from vol. 2: L – Z )
Complete and most recent description of the earth of the Prussian monarchy and the Free State of Krakow . Weimar 1819 ( digitized ).
Statistical outline of all European and non-European states . Weimar 1823–1824, 3 issues
Genealogical-statistical-historical almanac . Weimar 1824-28
Concise dictionary of history and mythology . Weimar 1825

literature

Friedrich Ratzel: Hassel, Johann Georg Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 760.
Gerhard Schildt : Hassel, Johann Georg Heinrich . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 250-251 .

Individual evidence

^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Johann Georg Heinrich Hassel. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 14, 2015 .

Web links

Wikisource: Johann Georg Heinrich Hassel - Sources and full texts

Hassel . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 8 . Altenburg 1859, p. 84 ( zeno.org ).

personal data
SURNAME	Hassel, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hassel, Johann Georg Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German geographer
DATE OF BIRTH	December 30, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wolfenbüttel
DATE OF DEATH	January 18, 1829
Place of death	Weimar

[1] Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Johann Georg Heinrich Hassel. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 14, 2015 .