Karl Schneider-Carius
Karl Schneider-Carius , formerly Karl Schneider, (born June 2, 1896 in Bardowick , † December 1, 1959 in Leipzig ) was a German meteorologist and climatologist . He was director of the Geophysical Institute of the University of Leipzig .
From 1920 to 1925 he was at the Lindenberg Aeronautical Observatory . After the Second World War he worked first for the Americans and then in the Central Office of the German Weather Service in Bad Kissingen .
From 1955 until his sudden death in 1959 he was director of the Geophysical Institute of the University of Leipzig, from which well-known meteorologists emerged, as did Karl-Heinz Bernhardt , who later became President of the Meteorological Society of the GDR .
In 1957 Schneider-Carius founded the maritime observatory on the Baltic Sea in Zingst .
A specialist book was created in 1953 from his special occupation with the troposphere . In 1954 he published a standard work on the history of meteorology.
Fonts
- The basal layer of the troposphere. Academic publishing company Geest and Portig, Leipzig 1953
- Weather science, weather research: history of their problems and findings in documents from three millennia. Orbis academicus , Verlag Karl Alber , Freiburg i. B./Munich 1954
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the Institute for Meteorology, Leipzig , with photo by Karl Schneider-Carius
- ^ Technical Committee History of Meteorology, German Meteorological Society, circular 2008, pdf
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schneider-Carius, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schneider, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German meteorologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 2, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bardowick |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 1, 1959 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |