Karl Dove

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Karl Dove (born November 12, 1863 in Tübingen , †  July 30, 1922 in Jena ) was a German geographer , meteorologist and Africa explorer .

Life

Karl Dove was the son of canon law teacher Richard Wilhelm Dove and the grandson of the physicist and meteorologist Heinrich Wilhelm Dove . Karl Dove soon followed in his grandfather's footsteps and from 1883 studied geography, physics and economics at the University of Göttingen and the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . In 1888 he obtained his doctorate in Göttingen. phil. on the climate of extra-tropical South Africa. In 1890 he completed his habilitation at the Humboldt University in Berlin in geography and climatology and taught colonial regional studies at the seminar for oriental languages as a private lecturer .

On behalf of the German Colonial Society (DKG) he undertook meteorological and economic geographic studies between 1892 and 1893, especially in German South West Africa . On his way home he visited German East Africa and the regions under British control, Cape Colony and Egypt .

From 1899 to 1908 he was an associate professor at the University of Jena . After that he devoted himself more to his literary and colonial-political activities and worked for the Berlin Museum of Ethnology , before returning to a university at the beginning of the First World War . From 1914 he taught as a private lecturer at the geographical institute in Freiburg .

In addition to his academic work, he was active on the board of the German Colonial Society and temporarily vice chairman of the Colonial Economic Committee (renamed the Economic Committee in 1902 ), a non-profit organization founded in 1896 as an advisory body to the German Colonial Society "for the purpose of economic development in the protected areas ".

In Freiburg, however, he was unable to obtain a professorship or to establish an institute for African foreign studies based on the model of the Hamburg Colonial Institute founded in 1908 . With the Versailles Peace Treaty he had to finally bury his colonial, scientific and political ambitions, and in 1921 he finally returned his Venia Legendi .

Fonts

As a writer

  • The climate of extra-tropical South Africa. Goettingen 1888
  • Cultural zones of northern Abyssinia. Petermann's Geographical Communications. Supplement No. 97. Gotha 1890
  • German South West Africa. Results of a trip in southern Damaralande . Petermann's Geographical Communications . Supplement No. 120. Gotha 1896
  • Southwest African images of war and peace from the first German colony. Berlin 1896
  • From the Cape to the Nile. Berlin 1899
  • Economic geography of the German protected areas. Leipzig 1902
  • German South West Africa. Berlin 1903
  • The gigantic Anglo-Saxon empires. 2 volumes. Jena 1906–1907
  • Economic geography of Africa. Jena 1917
  • The German Colonies , Göschen Collection , Leipzig 1909–1913 ( digitized version of the Bremen State and University Library).
    • Vol. 1: Togo and Cameroon . 1909.
    • Vol. 2: The South Sea Region and Kiautschou . 1911.
    • Vol. 3: East Africa . 1912.
    • Vol. 4: South West Africa . 1913.
  • General political geography , Göschen Collection (Volume No. 800), Berlin and Leipzig 1920
  • General transport geography , Sammlung Goschen (belt no. 834), Berlin and Leipzig 1921
  • General Economic Geography , Göschen Collection (Volume No. 835), Berlin and Leipzig 1921

As a co-author

  • Overseas Germany. The German colonies in words and pictures. 2 volumes. Stuttgart / Berlin / Leipzig 1890.

As co-editor

  • Applied geography. Booklets for the dissemination of geographical knowledge in its relation to cultural and economic life . Series of publications from 1902 to 1921 published by various publishers: Gebauer-Schwetschke (Halle an der Saale), Keller (Frankfurt am Main) and Seidel (Vienna).

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personal data
SURNAME Dove, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer, meteorologist and Africa researcher
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1922
Place of death Jena