Karl von Hahn (ethnographer)

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Karl von Hahn (until 1878 Karl Hahn ; born April 29, 1848 in Friedrichstal near Freudenstadt , † August 16, 1925 in Tbilisi ) was a German explorer and ethnographer .

Life

Karl Hahn was the son of a cashier in a steel works, his mother was born by Gross . He studied theology and philology in Tübingen and completed his vicariate in Brenz and Reichenbach .

In the war of 1870/71 he took part as a nurse . In 1872 he went to Tbilisi , where from 1874 he taught at the German-speaking first classical grammar school as well as at other higher schools. In the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877/78 he was an agent of the Red Cross . Around 1878 he was raised to the Russian nobility . In Tbilisi he dealt intensively with the Caucasus and was in close contact with the founder of the Caucasian Museum Gustav Radde . From 1888 onwards, he made extensive research trips to the Greater Caucasus and the Armenian highlands, including in 1898 and 1902 in the Dagestani Caucasus . He published his observations and research results in the historical, folklore and namological as well as biological and geological areas in German and Russian. He wrote the biography of G. Raddes and in 1924 the first textbook on geography of Georgia . He became known as a teacher through the Russian translation of Gotthold Klee's Greek house tales .

Hahn married Helene Franken in 1875, the daughter of the German landscape and genre painter Paul von Franken and the Baltic painter Helene Köber .

The Karl-von-Hahn-Strasse in his hometown Freudenstadt is named after Hahn .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German biography, published by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences : Hahn, Karl von
personal data
SURNAME Hahn, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hahn, Karl (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German explorer and ethnographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedrichstal near Freudenstadt
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1925
Place of death Tbilisi