Karl Emil Jung

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Karl Emil Jung (born February 1, 1833 in Groß Machnow ; † October 2, 1902 in Leipzig ) was a German teacher , explorer and geographer .

Life

Karl Emil Jung was the son of pastor Gustav Jung (1796-1892) and his wife Auguste Henriette Eleonore († 1837), née Bornemann. After the early death of his biological mother, he was raised by his stepmother Elisabeth Friederike Luise, née Nöhr, from 1838 onwards.

He attended high schools in Schulpforta and Magdeburg , studied law, and was awarded a Dr. jur. doctorate and then went first to England , where he at Eton College in Eton gave lessons in German and Latin.

In the period around 1858 Karl Emil Jung emigrated to Australia and undertook numerous trips to get to know the country and its people and, above all, the German colonies. He lived in Tanunda in the Barossa Valley near Adelaide , taught German, French and Classical Languages ​​at St. Peters College in Adelaide and later held the position of school inspector for South Australia from 1872 to 1877. After the University of Adelaide was founded on November 6, 1874 , he was appointed Professor of Classical Languages. A few years later he returned to Germany and then lived in Leipzig, Wiesbaden , Eisenach and finally again in Leipzig.

After his return, Karl Emil Jung worked as an editor for the daily press and at Meyer's Konversations-Lexikon .

As a freelance writer, he dealt with the geography of Australia in a number of articles and was considered to be one of the best experts on the geography, geography and population of Australia and New Zealand at the end of the 19th century , especially after the publication of 2 larger works Continent.

Karl Emil Jung was Secretary General of the Colonial Association and published an overview of the German branches in the various continents even before Germany joined the ranks of colonial powers in 1883 and 1885. He advocated the preservation of Germanness abroad and called for better connections with the mother country, the posting of teachers and clergy, as well as constant public relations work and incessant further immigration.

Karl Emil Jung was registered on August 21, 1884 in the anthropology, ethnology and geography section under matriculation no. Elected member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2478 .

Fonts

  • Australia and New Zealand. Historical, geographic and statistical sketch . Mutze, Leipzig 1879
  • Lexicon of commercial geography. Trade and industrial relations of all countries with the latest reports on exports and imports, production, traffic and numerous statistical tables. With a map of world traffic . Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1882
  • The world part Australia . 4 volumes, Tempsky, Prague / Freytag, Leipzig 1882–1883
  • German colonies with special consideration of the latest German acquisitions in West Africa and Australia . 2nd increased edition. Freytag, Leipzig / Tempsky, Prague 1885
  • The Germanness in Australia and Oceania. The struggle for Germanism , 19, Lehmann, Munich 1902

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Karl Emil Jung  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carl Hermann Knoblauch (Ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 20th issue. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1884, p. 136 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Jung, Karl Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jung, Carl Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, explorer and geographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Great Machnow
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1902
Place of death Leipzig