Gustav Adolf of Klöden
Gustav Adolf von Klöden (born June 24, 1814 in Berlin ; † March 11, 1885 there ) was a German geographer.
origin
His parents were the educationalist and director of the trade school in Berlin Karl Friedrich von Klöden (* May 21, 1786 - January 9, 1856) and his wife Johanna Heyl (* December 18, 1784 - April 17, 1857).
Live and act
Klöden attended the newly founded trade school in Berlin from 1825 to 1830 , then studied mathematics and natural sciences at the university there from 1832–36, and since 1836 made repeated trips to southern France, Italy and Greece with Heinrich Friedrich Link . In 1837 he received his doctorate from the University of Berlin and in 1840 he was employed as a teacher of geography and German at the Berlin trade school:
In 1855 he was appointed professor and in 1870 a member of the Senior Military Examination Commission. He died on March 11, 1885 in Berlin and was buried in the Luisenstadt cemetery , where his father had also found his final resting place.
The island of Klödenøya, discovered in 1868 by the First German North Polar Expedition , is one of the Bastian Islands in the Hinlopen Strait ( Spitzbergen ) and is named after Gustav Adolf von Klöden.
family
On April 24, 1840 he married Caroline Friederike Wilhelmine Dorothea Krause (* April 24, 1821; † July 14, 1897), the daughter of the Kommerzienrat and shipowner Friedrich Wilhelm Krause ( King of Schwienemünde ) from Swinoujscie and childhood friend of Theodor Fontane . Klöden had the following children with his wife:
- Margarete Johanna Caroline (born January 24, 1841) ⚭ 1860 Otto Kühnemann
- Karl Wilhelm Hermann (born April 9, 1842 - † February 28, 1915)
- Wilhelm Adolf Emanuel (born August 16, 1843 - March 2, 1878), director of the Danzig loan office ⚭ 1868 Mathilde Mehlmann (born February 23, 1846)
- Lina Elisa Marie (* October 11, 1845) ⚭ 1871 Hugo Kühnemann († June 9, 1892), businessman
- Karl Gustav Adolf (* July 20, 1847), Imperial Real Privy Councilor and Director of the Reichsbank Halle ⚭ 1874 Antonie Elise Ackermann (* April 27, 1855)
Fonts (selection)
- The river system of the upper Nile (Berlin 1857, with 5 maps);
- Geography textbook (Berlin 1867);
- Handbuch der Erdkunde (Berlin. 1857–62, 3 vols.), A geography in a scientific guise and of extraordinary richness of content;
- The area of the high and lowlands of Europe (Berlin 1874);
- Guide to teaching geography (Berlin 1880);
- Small school geography (Berlin 1874) and others
His repetition maps (Berlin 1867, 17 sheets) were also widely used .
literature
- Viktor Hantzsch : Gustav Adolf von Klöden . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, pp. 235-237.
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses, 1916, p.386f
- Gustav Adolf of Klöden . In: Marcelli Janecki , Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the German nobility . Second volume. WT Bruer's Verlag, Berlin 1898, p. 292-293 ( dlib.rsl.ru ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klödenøya . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).
- ↑ Christine Hehle, Hanna Delf von Wolzüge, Fragments: Stories, Impressions, Essays , p.142 (partial view)
Web links
- Literature by and about Gustav Adolf von Klöden in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Gustav Adolf von Klöden in the German Digital Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klöden, Gustav Adolf von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1814 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 11, 1885 |
| Place of death | Berlin |