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Otto Friedrich Julius Rudolf Quelle (born October 23, 1879 in Nordhausen am Harz , † December 19, 1959 in Berlin ) was a German geographer.

Life

Otto Quelle attended the Nordhäuser Gymnasium until 1902, studied geography and natural sciences at the universities in Göttingen and Berlin . During this period of study he undertook long research trips, one to the United States and Mexico in 1904 and to southern Spain in 1905 and 1906 .

In 1908 Quelle received his doctorate “Contributions to the knowledge of the Spanish Sierra Nevada” at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität for Dr. phil. He then worked for almost two and a half years as an assistant at the Geography Institute at Berlin University. After a short employment at the Geographic Institute in Gotha , he went to Bonn in April 1911 and completed his habilitation in 1912 with the work “Contributions to regional studies of Eastern Granada” with the geographer Alfred Philippson at the local university in the subject of geography. The subject of his trial lecture as part of this habilitation process was “The Strait of Gibraltar” and the inaugural lecture on obtaining his license to teach at Bonn University took place on October 23, 1912 - on his 33rd birthday - on the subject of “The results of research into the Tienschan” .

In 1913 he moved to Hamburg and founded the central office for all areas of knowledge about Central and South America. In May 1917, Quelle went to the University of Königsberg for almost a year .

From 1918 on, Quelle again taught at the University of Bonn, initially as an associate professor. In 1920 he was appointed full professor at Bonn University. Otto Quelle was one of the founders of the Ibero-American Research Institute in Bonn in 1924 .

In the summer semester of 1927, Quelle undertook an extensive trip to Brazil , which increased his scientific reputation to such an extent that he was finally included in the plans to found the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin, which had been pursued in Berlin since 1927.

The Ibero-American Institute in Berlin was founded in January 1930 and Quelle was appointed full professor at the Technical University, today's Technical University, Berlin on October 1, 1930. Otto Quelle taught in Berlin until 1955: from 1930 to 1940 at the Technical University, from 1940 to 1945 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, from the winter semester 1949/50 first as a lecturer and finally from April 1951 as an honorary professor at the Free University of Berlin .

family

The father Ferdinand Quelle was a distillery owner and wholesale merchant in Nordhausen. His mother Ottilie Quelle, b. Eberhardt, died in 1906. Otto Quelle was the third of a total of eight children. In 1908 he married Sofie Fischer. From this marriage there were three children.

Awards

Works

Otto Quelle was the editor of the quarterly magazine Ibero-American Archive, founded in 1924, and from 1930 on he was editor and speaker at the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin.

  • Contributions to the cultural studies of Eastern Granada. (1914)
  • Directory of scientific institutions, journals and bibliographies of the Ibero-American cultural world. (1916)
  • Wilhelm von Humboldt and his relations with the Spanish cultural world. (1935)
  • History of America except Canada. (1942)

literature

  • German Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 8, Walter de Gruyter, 2007, p. 125
  • Christian Tilitzki : The Albertus University of Königsberg: Its history from the founding of the empire to the fall of the province of East Prussia (1871-1945). Volume 1: 1871-1918, Volume 1, Akademie Verlag, 2012, p. 603
  • Bonn scholars: Contributions to the history of science in Bonn. Volume 9, Röhrscheid, 1970, pp. 215-222

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personal data
SURNAME Source, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quelle, Otto Friedrich Julius Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordhausen am Harz
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1959
Place of death Berlin