Paul Lehmann (geographer)

Friedrich Wilhelm Paul Lehmann (born April 25, 1850 in Darsband near Putbus on Rügen , † June 28, 1930 in Leipzig ) was a German geographer and university professor .

Life

Paul Lehmann, son of a tenant, attended grammar school in Neustrelitz and grammar school in Prenzlau . After graduating from high school in 1870, he took part in the Franco-German War as a volunteer hunter . He then studied history at the universities of Berlin , Greifswald and Breslau , which Carl Friedrich Naumann introduced to geography in 1874 in Breslau with the acquisition of the academic degree of Dr. phil. completed.

Paul Lehmann was then employed as a high school teacher at the Friedrichs-Gymnasium in Breslau, then at the Falk-Realgymnasium in Berlin. In addition, Lehmann taught geography in the lecture courses of the Berlin merchant class, which later became the commercial college . In 1890 he became director of the Schiller Realgymnasium in Stettin . After leaving school in 1913, he was given a private lectureship in geography at the University of Leipzig .

Paul Lehmann was particularly concerned with the geographic nature of the Pomeranian coast and the ice age glaciation of the Giant Mountains . He discovered the diluvial glacier tracks in the Carpathian Wall of Transylvania (1880–95).

Fonts

• The Pisan Council of 1511, dissertation . Wroclaw 1874.
• Pomerania's coast from Dievenow to Darß . A contribution to the physical geography of the Baltic Sea area . Wroclaw 1878.
• The torrents of the Alps. A description of their causes, devastation and control as a contribution to geography . Wroclaw 1879.
• Herder in its importance for geography . Berlin 1879.
• The Kingdom of Romania . In: Alfred Kirchhoff (Hrsg.): Länderkunde von Europa . Vol. 3.2. Vienna 1893, pp. 1–61.
• Pictures from the war life of a Pomeranian hunter. Neudamm 1903.
• Wölfelsgrund and the Glatzer Schneeberg : A contribution to the Silesian regional studies dedicated to Joseph Partsch at the age of 70 . Glatz Mountain Club, Glatz 1921.
• Japan . Everyone's Library, Breslau 1925.

literature

• Gerhard Lüdtke (Hrsg.), Werner Schuder (Hrsg.), Joseph Kürschner (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1928/29. 3rd edition, De Gruyter, Berlin 1929, ISBN 3-111-07168-5 , p. 1361.
• Gerhard Engelmann :  Lehmann, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 91 ( digitized version ).
• Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 6. Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-23163-6 , p. 296.
• Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , pp. 308–309.

Web links

• Literature by and about Paul Lehmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Overview of Paul Lehmann's courses at Leipzig University (summer semester 1914)
• Estate at the University of Leipzig, Institute for Regional Geography (PDF; 551 kB)