Oskar August

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Oskar August (born August 21, 1911 in Dobrzyca ; † July 24, 1985 in Elsterwerda ) was a German geographer and historian who mainly dealt with settlement geography . Together with Otto Schlüter (1872–1959) he was instrumental in the publication of the Central German Homeland Atlas and its subsequent editions.

Life

Born in Dobberschütz near Posen in 1911, he grew up in Nordhausen, Thuringia . He passed his Abitur in 1931 in Sondershausen . August then studied geography , geology , physics and chemistry at the University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1931 to 1936 and from 1937 worked initially as an assistant at the Geography Department of the University of Halle-Wittenberg, with interruptions due to the war. In 1945 Oskar August received his doctorate with the work "Contributions to the settlement geographic research of the villages of Polleben, Volkstedt and Häbitz and their corridors in the Mansfeld region". With which he was the first to prove that Lutherstadt Eisleben was “a sovereign market settlement without an associated hallway”.

He primarily dealt with settlement and land geographic research. From 1954 he worked as a research assistant at the Geographical Institute of the University of Leipzig and in 1960 worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Prehistory and Early History of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR .

After his retirement, August devoted himself to scientific research into the development of the settlements around Merseburg , Elsterwerda and in Niederlausitz .

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With his work, Oskar August played a key role in the publication of the “Central German Homeland Atlas”, which appeared in numerous editions from the late 1930s, and was also involved in subsequent post-processing of this extensive work.

Other publications (selection)

  • "Contributions to the settlement geographic research of the villages of Polleben, Volkstedt and Häbitz and their corridors in Mansfeld" (1945, university publication)
  • "Tilleda / Part 1: The Main Castle" (1968)
  • “Atlas of the Saale and Middle Elbe Region”, 3 volumes

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Saxon Biography , accessed on December 16, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c d e Obituary for Oskar August in Mehßow - A landscape between the Lausitzer Grenzwall, Schrake and Schuche . 2018, p. 8 .
  3. ↑ "Eisleben - The dispute settled once and for all" on the online portal of the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , August 22, 2011
personal data
SURNAME August, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Dobrzyca
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1985
Place of death Elsterwerda