Hermann Wagner (geographer)
Hermann Hans Karl Wagner (born June 23, 1840 in Erlangen , † June 18, 1929 in Bad Wildungen ) was a German geographer and cartographer .
Life
Hermann Wagner was the son of the physician Rudolf Wagner (1805–1864) and his wife Caroline Rosalie Wagner, b. Henke, (1813-1894). His brother was the economist and financial scientist Adolph Wagner . Hermann Wagner attended grammar school in Göttingen and studied mathematics and physics here and in Erlangen . In Erlangen he became a member of the Bubenreuth fraternity in 1859 . At the request of the terminally ill father, he first went to school in Gotha, where he established close relationships with Justus Perthes ' geographical institute , which remained lifelong. In 1876 Wagner was appointed to the newly established chair for geography in Königsberg , from where he moved to the University of Göttingen in 1880 . His first student was William Sievers , was later doctoral supervisor of August Wolkenhauer . He was Dean of the Philosophical Faculty (1886) and Vice Rector of the University of Göttingen.
On his 70th birthday Wagner was one of Adolf von Donndorf modeled bust of marble . Among others, the Geographical Society of Lübeck contributed to its financing with a contribution of 30 gold marks .
In 1920 Wagner retired . The greeting to say goodbye to the academic teaching post was signed by all 80 German university lecturers of geography.
Hermann Wagner was with Elisabeth Wagner, geb. Besser (1847–1875), married. The two had three daughters, all of whom married professors: Margarete Wagner the church historian Carl Mirbt , Dora Wagner the legal scholar Gerhard Alexander Leist and Rosa Wagner the Germanist Victor Michels .
Services
In the printed version for Hermann Wagner's 80th birthday, his 273 publications were listed individually, including 90 independent works and atlases and 88 essays.
Hermann Wagner is the founder of the Geographical Institute of the Georg-August-Universität and has a key position in the development of modern geography. The focus of his forty years of teaching activity was the improvement of geographic teaching and the training of scientifically qualified geography teachers. His successful efforts to expand geography at German universities also served this purpose.
In 1878 Hermann Wagner was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
In 1930 the Göttinger Grüne Weg, in which Wagner's house had been located since 1896, was renamed Wagnerstrasse . In 2005, a memorial plaque for Wagner was attached to house Wagnerstrasse 8.
Fonts (selection)
- Maas provisions of the surface of the cerebrum . Göttingen 1864 (dissertation)
- 1866 The population of the earth (supplementary books),
- 1869 statistical yearbook in the Gothaischer Hofkalender redesign,
- 1877-79 Geography textbook (revision of the 4th edition by Hermann Guthe ), - ( digitized version ) ( digitized version of the 5th edition, part 1, 1882)
- 1888 Sydow - Wagner's methodical school atlas, -
- 1902 establishment and management of a geophysical observatory in Samoa,
- 1924 Life pictures from his own hand by H. Wagner in Universitätsbund Göttingen Mitteilungen
Awards and prizes (selection)
- 1908: Carl Knight Medal
literature
- Wolfgang Böhm : Hermann Wagner and geography at the University of Königsberg . In: Yearbook of the Albertus University in Königsberg . Volume 24 (1974), pp. 196-201
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 546.
- ^ Geological Society. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Vol. 52, No. 8, edition of February 20, 1910, p. 118.
- ↑ Member entry of Hermann Wagner at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 10, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wagner, Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wagner, Hermann Hans Karl (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | gain |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 18, 1929 |
| Place of death | Bad Wildungen |