Georg Wislicenus

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Historical view of the building of the Deutsche Seewarte in Hamburg between 1890 and 1900
HEIMDALL and SIEGFRIED in the Elbe estuary , chromo-lithography by Carl Saltzmann, No. 6 from Georg Wislicenus, Our War Fleet (1895)
Fleet Maneuvers at Dawn by Friedrich Schwinge, No. 20 from Georg Wislicenus: Our Navy (1895)
Blücher and torpedo boats in swell , chromo-lithography by Willy Stöwer, No. 18 from Georg Wislicenus: Our war fleet (1895)

Georg Wislicenus (born November 15, 1858 in Weimar , † November 1, 1927 in Berlin ) was a German naval officer and naval writer.

Life

Georg Wislicenus was a son of the painter Hermann Wislicenus (1825–1899) and his wife Ida, née Roederer. The painters Max Wislicenus (1861–1957) and Hans Wislicenus (1864–1939) were his younger brothers. The sculptor Lilli Wislicenus-Finzelberg was his cousin and later sister-in-law.

Georg Wislicenus joined the Imperial Navy in 1876 , went through officer training and was last assigned to the rank of lieutenant captain during his active time . In 1889 he switched to the German Seewarte in Hamburg as a scientific officer , where in 1899 he became the head of the department for coastal descriptions of foreign countries and finally moved to the nautical department of the Reichsmarineamt in 1903 , where he was appointed admiralty councilor in 1908 .

In his publications as a naval writer, he worked with the marine painters Carl Saltzmann , Friedrich Schwinge and Willy Stöwer and was later also the editor of volumes 3 to 5 of the work Auf weiter Fahrt (Leipzig 1905–1907) founded by Julius Lohmeyer .

In 1924 Georg Wislicenus was awarded the Silver Leibniz Medal of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences .

From his correspondence, his letters to the classical philologist and librarian Eduard Zarncke have been preserved in his estate.

Works (selection)

  • Results of the International Naval Conference in Washington and their significance for Germany's marine life. A critical study . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1891
  • Protection for our sailors! An appeal to German human friends . Grunow, Leipzig 1894 ( digitized version )
  • Our navy presented to the German people in words and pictures . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1895
  • with Willy Stöwer : Germany's maritime power now and then. In addition to an overview of the history of seafaring of all peoples. Explained by 65 pictures by the marine painter Willy Stöwer . Grunow, Berlin 1896 ( digitized version )
  • Key points of the fleet issue . Friedrich Luckhardt, Berlin, Leipzig 1898
  • Prince Admiral Adalbert was a champion for Germany's sea power . Voigtländer, Leipzig 1899
  • From Aomori to Vladivostok . In: Lohmeyer = Wislicenus. On the way . Personal experiences at sea and on land . German Naval and Colonial Library, popular edition, edited by G. Gramberg, Volume II, Weicher, Leipzig and Berlin 1908, pp. 60–78 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Entry on Georg Wislicēnus . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 20, Leipzig 1909, p. 692 ( Zeno.org )
  • Gerhard Lüdtke (Ed.): Kürschner's German Literature Calendar - Nekrolog. 1901–1935 , Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and Leipzig 1936, p. 800

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personal data
SURNAME Wislicenus, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1927
Place of death Berlin