Johann Gottfried Lüdde

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Johann Gottfried Lüdde (born August 12, 1799 in Wolfenbüttel , † after 1867 ) was a German geography teacher and geographer .

Life

Johann Gottfried Lüdde was promoted to Dr. phil. doctorate and worked from 1829 as a geography teacher on 1823 by the pedagogue Johann Karl Christian Lippe (1779-1853) founded pedagogy at Lenzburg Castle in the canton of Aargau . The institute was a philanthropic private school for boys from a good family, which was closely related to the methods of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and had over 50 students at their weddings, mainly French from Alsace and southern France , and twelve teachers. After Lippe had closed the financially troubled institution shortly before his death due to the increasing absence of pupils, Lüdde became a geography teacher at the Luisenstädtische Realschule in Berlin, founded in 1836 .

Lüdde was friends with Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Heyse , to whom he dedicated his book on the history of geography , published in 1841 . Until 1847 he was editor of the first seven volumes of the journal for comparative geography , published from 1842 and continued by Heinrich Berghaus for a short time until 1850 (volume 10) in Magdeburg Verlag by Emil Baensch (1817-1887) . His correspondence includes letters from Julian R. Jackson (1790-1853), Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn , Georg Ludwig Kriegk , Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck , Eduard Selberg and Johann Eduard Wappäus as well as his letters to Johann Carl Eduard Buschmann , Georg Friedrich Grotefend , Alexander von Humboldt and Georg Ludwig Kriegk.

Lüdde was a member of the Royal Danish Society for Nordic Antiquity, the Society for Geography in Berlin , the Société de Géographie , the German Oriental Society and the Institut d'Afrique in Paris as well as a corresponding member of the Geographical Society in Frankfurt am Main and the Geography Association and related sciences to Darmstadt.

On October 15, 1843, Lüdde was elected with the academic surname Ptolemy II in the Geography section as a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina ( matriculation no. 1520 ).

Fonts

as an author
  • The history of geography . Stackebrandt, Berlin 1841 (digitized version)
  • The methodology of geography or guidance to more easily and truly introduce the advances in the science of geography into school and academic teaching . Baensch, Magdeburg 1842 (digitized version)
  • The history of geography methodology. In its first basis, through a historical-critical compilation of the literature of the methodology of geography . Hinrich, Leipzig 1849 (digitized version)
  • with Franz Matthes: The sun in the service of cartography. Critical discussions on the history of the more recent cartography for the introduction of wall maps and the school atlas over all parts of the earth based on reliefs by C. Raaz, G. Woldermann, C. Bamberg, Fr. Schilling . Publishing house of the Photolithographic Map and Art Publishing House, Weimar 1874 (digitized version)
as editor

literature

  • Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 270 ( archive.org ).

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personal data
SURNAME Lüdde, Johann Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ptolemy II
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geography teacher and geographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfenbüttel
DATE OF DEATH after 1867