Karl Zehden

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Karl Zehden on an oil painting by Anton Romako (around 1876/1877)

Karl August Zehden (born August 16, 1843 in Linz , † May 22, 1901 in Mödling ; also Carl Zehden ) was an Austrian geographer .

Life

Karl Zehden was the son of a middle school teacher. He attended high school in his native Linz. He then studied history, geography, philosophy and economics at the University of Vienna , which he completed in 1869 as a doctor of philosophy.

Zehden initially worked under Alexander Gigl in the archive of the Ministry of the Interior in Vienna from 1869 until he succeeded Vincenz Klun as a teacher of geography and statistics at the Vienna Commercial Academy in 1871 . He held this post for thirty years until his death. Zehden married Maria Müller from the Rhineland in 1876 , who came from a Walloon family. He traveled through Europe, the Orient and North America . In 1882 he became a committee member of the Imperial and Royal Geographical Society and professor of transport geography and statistics at the advanced training school for railway officials in Vienna. He worked for the Ministry of Education from 1884 as a member of the examination commission for commercial subjects and from 1888 as an inspector of commercial schools with German and Italian language of instruction in Austria. In the last ten years of his life until his death in 1901, he worked on reforming the Austrian commercial academies and commercial schools.

Karl Zehden is considered to be the founder of trade and transport geography in Austria. His standard work, Handelsgeographie, based on the latest research , has appeared in numerous editions since 1871 and has been translated into several languages. In other publications, too, he endeavored to present the practical effects of economic geographic knowledge.

Fonts

  • Commercial geography based on the latest research and statistics . 15th edition. Hölder, Vienna 1922 (first edition: 1871).
  • Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada . In: Communications of the Imperial and Royal Geographical Society . XIX. Tape. Zamarski, Vienna 1876, p. 564-571 ( digitized version ).
  • Transport routes on water and on land. A historical-geographical picture . Hölder, Vienna 1879.
  • California then and now. A historical-geographical picture . Hölder, Vienna 1880.
  • Norway. A historical-geographical picture . Hölder, Vienna 1882.
  • Austria's appearance on the Australian world market. A commercial-geographical study . Steyrermühl, Vienna 1882.
  • Report on the Colonial Exhibition in Amsterdam in 1883 . In: Communications of the Imperial and Royal Geographical Society . XXVII. Tape. Hölzel, Vienna 1884, p. 14-22 ( digitized version ).
  • Report on the celebration of the 80th birthday of the councilor Prof. Dr. Simony . Holzhausen, Vienna 1893. (With Eduard Richter .)
  • The commercial importance of Chicago . Publishing house of the Lower Austrian Trade Association, Vienna 1893.
  • The United States of America. Commercial geographic sketch . A. Holder, Vienna 1894.
  • On the history of commercial education in Austria from 1848 to 1898 . Hölder, Vienna 1897.

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Constantin von Wurzbach : Zehden, Karl August . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 59th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1890, pp. 269–271 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ a b Hofrath Dr. Karl Zehden †. In:  Commercial journal. Organ of the Vienna Commercial Association , June 1, 1901, p. 1 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / maintenance / kmz
  3. ↑ a b Felix Czeike (Ed.): Zehdengasse. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 5, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 , p. 691 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Zehden, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zehden, Karl August (full name); Zehden, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1901
Place of death Mödling