Hans J. Wehrli

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Hans J. Wehrli, around 1914

Hans Jakob Wehrli (born July 2, 1871 in Zurich ; † February 26, 1945 there ) was a Swiss geographer and ethnologist .

Life

Wehrli studied geography at the universities of Leipzig and Zurich from 1898 to 1903 . He received his doctorate in 1904 under Otto Stoll in Zurich on the ethnology of the Jingpo of Upper Burma . In 1907 he received his habilitation in Zurich. From 1911 he was associate professor and from 1913 to 1940 full professor of geography and ethnology at the University of Zurich. From 1911 to 1941 he was director of the Institute of Geography and the Ethnographic Collection .

Among other things, Wehrli researched the economic and settlement geography of Upper Burma and the northern Shan states .

Fonts (selection)

  • Contribution to the ethnology of the Chingpaw (Kachin) of Upper Burma . Brill, Leiden 1904 (dissertation).
  • On the economic and settlement geography of Upper Burma and the Northern Shan States . Lohbauer, Zurich 1906 (separate reprint from the annual report of the Geographical-Ethnographic Society in Zurich 1905–1906, digitized ).
  • About droughts in British India . Lohbauer, Zurich 1909 (separate reprint from the annual report of the Geographical-Ethnographic Society in Zurich 1908–1909, digitized version ).
  • The ethnology collection . Zurich 1914 (separate reprint from the commemorative publication on the inauguration of the new buildings at the University of Zurich, 1914).
  • Front and rear India . Special print, o. O. approx. 1915 (= separate print from Karl Andree's Geography of World Trade ).

literature

  • Ernst Winkler (Ed.): The Swiss Village. Contributions to the knowledge of his being. Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Hans J. Wehrli. Atlantis, Zurich 1941.
  • Alfred Steinmann : Hans J. Wehrli (1871–1945). In: Communications from the Geographical-Ethnographic Society Zurich. Vol. 42 (1943/44, 1944/45), pp. 5-11 ( digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Wehrli, Hans J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wehrli, Hans Jakob (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss geographer and ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1945
Place of death Zurich