Karl Andree (geographer)
Karl Theodor Andree (born October 20, 1808 in Braunschweig , † August 10, 1875 in Bad Wildungen ) was a German geographer , publicist and consul.
Life
Karl Andree studied historical sciences in Jena , Göttingen and Berlin . During his studies he became a member of the Jenaische Burschenschaft / Arminia in 1826 . After completing his studies, he embarked on a career in journalism after 1830. As early as 1838 he edited the Mainzer Zeitung , then the Oberdeutsche Zeitung in Karlsruhe , from 1843 the Kölnische Zeitung and from 1846 the Bremer Zeitung . From 1848 to 1851 he edited the Deutsche Reichs-Zeitung of the publisher Eduard Vieweg in Braunschweig. In 1851 he founded the Bremer Handelsblatt .
From 1855 he devoted himself exclusively to geographical and ethnic studies, first in Leipzig , where he was also consul of the Republic of Chile for the Kingdom of Saxony from 1858 to 1870 , and later in Dresden . The grave stone of his wife Adelheid (1807-1864) stands on the cemetery to Kötzschenbroda .
His son Richard Andree also devoted himself to geography and ethnography .
Services
The most important of his writings are: North America in geographical and historical outlines (2nd edition, Braunschweig 1854); Buenos Ayres and the Argentine Republic (Leipzig 1856). In his Geographical Walks (Dresden 1859, 2 volumes) he particularly highlighted ethnological elements and stated that ethnology should be regarded as a main basis of political science . The term “ethnology” was not to be understood as a comparative cultural anthropology , but as a racial anthropology. In the magazine Globus , which he founded , he represented an openly racist view of non-European peoples. He advocated the expulsion or extermination of the American and Australian Native Americans and was one of the most radical advocates of slavery . His mostly anonymous articles or leading articles often contained violent verbal attacks on the abolitionists , while he repeatedly commented benevolently on the southern states' view . His image of the human races was shaped by the idea of polygenism, that is, each human race - or better: human species - represented its own species with its own area of origin, each of these species being differently gifted and therefore having a different value.
literature
- Viktor Hantzsch: Andree, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 46, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902, pp. 12-15.
- Erich von Drygalski: Andree, Carl Theodor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 285 ( digitized version ).
- Wilhelm Haan : Karl Theodor Andrée . In: Saxon Writer's Lexicon . Robert Schaefer's Verlag, Leipzig 1875, p. 6.
- Mechthild Wiswe : Andree, Karl Theodor. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 27-28 .
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 16-17.
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Andree in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Karl Andree in the German Digital Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Andree, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Andree, Karl Theodor (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geographer, publicist and consul |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 10, 1875 |
| Place of death | Bad Wildungen |