Moritz Lindeman
Moritz Karl Adolf von Lindeman (born March 27, 1823 in Dresden , † August 7, 1908 in Dresden) was a German stenographer and journalist .
biography
Lindeman was the son of a Saxon colonel . He became a soldier and an officer himself. From 1848 to 1878 he was a stenographer for the Bremen citizenship in Bremen . In addition, he worked as a journalist for the political-mercantile Handelsblatt Weser-Zeitung for around 60 years . He mainly reports on geographical areas. In the early 1870s his doctorate he became Dr. phil.
In 1869 he co-founded the Association for the German North Pole Trip . Lindeman, HH Meier and the cartographer August Petermann as well as the Bremen shipowner Albert Rosenthal were the main initiators of the Second German North Polar Expedition to the east coast of Greenland in 1869 , which the polar explorer Carl Koldewey led as captain of the expedition ship Germania . In 1876 the Geographical Society in Bremen emerged from the association , of which Lindeman was secretary until 1895. In 1877 he founded the Geographische Blätter and edited it until 1895. In 1894 he moved back to Dresden, where he died in 1908. He was buried in the Trinity Cemetery.
Lindeman's publications on the North Pole voyages (1869/70), on the history of the Arctic fisheries, on trade relations between the USA and North Germany (1878) and with North German Lloyd were of great importance. The Lindeman in British Columbia is also named after him as the Lindemanfjord and Lindemans Dalen in Greenland .
Works
- Finland and its people. a historical-geographical sketch . Carl B. Lorck, Leipzig 1855 Archives
- with Otto Finsch : The second German north polar voyage in 1869 and 1870, under the leadership of Captain Koldewey , Brockhaus, Leipzig 1875 Archive
- The Arctic Fisheries of the German Sea Cities 1620–1868. In a comparative illustration Perthes, Gotha 1869 Archives
- The sea fisheries, their areas, operations and yields in the years 1869–1878. Perthes, Gotha 1880
- Legislation and institutions in the interest of emigration in Bremen. In: Series of publications by the Verein für Socialpolitik. Vol. 52, Leipzig 1892
- The North German Lloyd. 1892
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
Individual evidence
- ↑ death survey . In: Dresdner Geschichtsblätter , No. 4, 1908, p. 302.
- ↑ George Philip Vernon Akrigg, Helen B. Akrigg: British Columbia place names , UBC Press, 1997
- ↑ Anthony K. Higgins Exploration history and place names of northern East Greenland (PDF; 12.3 MB). Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 21, Copenhagen 2010, ISBN 978-87-7871-292-9 (English), p. 246 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lindeman, Moritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lindeman, Moritz Karl Adolf von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German stenographer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1823 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 7, 1908 |
| Place of death | Dresden |