Karl Friedrich Vollrath Hoffmann

Karl Friedrich Vollrath Hoffmann , also: Carl Friedrich Vollrath Hoffmann , Vollrath Hoffmann (born July 15, 1796 in Stargard , † August 30, 1842 in Stuttgart ) was a geographer and geographical writer .

Life

Karl Friedrich Vollrath Hoffmann was born as the son of a master saddler in the small country town of Stargard (today: Burg Stargard) in Mecklenburg-Strelitz . He attended the Stargarder Stadtschule, then the scholars' school in Friedland and the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in Berlin. Since 1812, he studied in Berlin , where he is the Corps Vandalia I joined. In Jena he became a member of the original fraternity .

After graduating, he was a teacher at Fellenberg's training institutes in Hofwil and later went to Stuttgart at the invitation of the geologist Bernhard von Cotta . There he took over the direction of a geographic institute, which he later followed to Munich .

In 1829 he became a private lecturer at the university there, but soon had to leave Munich because of frank statements about Catholicism and went back to Stuttgart, where he died in dire want after receiving calls to St. Petersburg and Dorpat a few days earlier .

Works (selection)

The earth and its inhabitants, a handbook and reader for all classes . Stuttgart [u. a.], 1833; 3rd, corrected and probable edition ( digitized version )
The earth and its inhabitants . Stuttgart, 1833; 6th edition by Heinrich Berghaus and Völter, 1861–65
Germany and its inhabitants . Stuttgart, 1834–36, 4 volumes

Volume 1 (1836): Germany in general containing. ( Digitized version )

Europe and its people . Stuttgart, 1835–40, 8 volumes
The peoples of the earth, their life, their customs and traditions . Stuttgart, 1840, 2 volumes

Remarks

↑ Not born: June 15, 1796!
↑ Did not die: August 20, 1842!
^ As a high school graduate in Friedland, Hoffmann cannot be proven.
^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 17 , 8
↑ Peter Kaupp [edit.]: Stamm-Buch of the Jenaische Burschenschaft. The members of the original fraternity 1815–1819. (= Treatises on student and higher education ; Vol. 14). SH-Verlag, Cologne 2005. ISBN 3-89498-156-3 . P. 169.

literature

Friedrich Ratzel: Hoffmann, Karl Friedrich Vollrath . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 606 f.
Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 340–341.

Web links

Wikisource: Karl Friedrich Vollrath Hoffmann - Sources and full texts

Literature by and about Karl Friedrich Vollrath Hoffmann in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature on Karl Friedrich Vollrath Hoffmann in the state bibliography MV

personal data
SURNAME	Hoffmann, Karl Friedrich Vollrath
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hoffmann, Vollrath
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	geographical writer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 15, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stargard
DATE OF DEATH	August 30, 1842
Place of death	Stuttgart

[1] Not born: June 15, 1796!

[2] Did not die: August 20, 1842!

[3] As a high school graduate in Friedland, Hoffmann cannot be proven.

[4] Kösener corps lists 1910, 17 , 8

[5] Peter Kaupp [edit.]: Stamm-Buch of the Jenaische Burschenschaft. The members of the original fraternity 1815–1819. (= Treatises on student and higher education ; Vol. 14). SH-Verlag, Cologne 2005. ISBN 3-89498-156-3 . P. 169.