Robert Sieger (geographer)

Robert Sieger ( Robert Sieger the Younger ; born March 8, 1864 in Vienna , Austria , † November 1, 1926 in Graz ) was an Austrian geographer and university professor .

Live and act

Robert Sieger was the son of the printer, lithographer and entrepreneur Robert Sieger . He attended high school in Vienna and from 1881 studied history at the University of Vienna, among others with Max Büdinger, and linguistics . He was also interested in geography and attended lectures with Friedrich Simony and Albrecht Penck , whose pupil he later became. In 1886 he presented with a double major in history, comparative linguistics and Sanskrit the final exam and was with a thesis on the origin of the Shatt al-Arab to Dr. phil. PhD .

He passed the teaching examination for history and geography, studied from 1889 with Heinrich Kiepert and Ferdinand von Richthofen in Berlin and traveled to Germany and Scandinavia. From 1892 he taught at secondary schools. In 1894 he completed his habilitation and became a private lecturer in geography at the University of Vienna, in 1898 extraordinary professor for economic geography at the Export Academy Vienna and in 1903 extraordinary professor for geography at the University of Vienna. In 1905 he was appointed as the successor of Eduard Richter as a full professor at the University of Graz . For 1925/1926 he was elected rector of the university.

Robert Sieger dealt with climate fluctuations , with the geography and regional studies of Austria, with human , trade , economic and transport geography and later also with political geography and geopolitics .

He founded and edited the annual geographical report from Austria , which was published by Franciszek Czerny, Oskar Lenz , Ferdinand Löwl, Jan Palacký, Albrecht Penck, Anton Rehmann , Eduard Richter , Wilhelm Tomaschek and Franz von Wieser and which was published by Ed. Hölzel appeared. From 1910 he worked with Franz Heiderich on a new edition of the standard work Geography of World Trade founded by Karl Andree . In 1919 he was adviser on geographical issues to the Austrian delegation in the negotiations on the Treaty of Saint-Germain . In 1921 he became a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

From 1892 Robert Sieger was a member of the Anthropological Society in Vienna . Since it was founded in 1894, he was a member of the Association for Folklore , with whose co-founder Wilhelm Hein he was on friendly terms. He was a member of the Association of Geographers at the University of Vienna. In 1925 he became an honorary member of the Historical Association for Styria .

Robert Sieger coined the term Donauschwaben with Hermann Rüdiger in 1922 .

Fonts

• When did the Šat-el-Arab arise? Dissertation. University of Vienna 1885.
• Sea fluctuations and beach shifts in Scandinavia. In: Journal of the Society for Geography in Berlin. Volume 28, 1898, pp. 1–106 ( archive.org ) and pp. 393–520 ( archive.org ).
• The Alps. Göschen, Leipzig 1900, OCLC 1068486150 .
• The geographical basis of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and its foreign policy. Teubner, Leipzig / Berlin 1915, archive.org . New edition: Salzwasser, Paderborn 2013, ISBN 978-3-86382-872-1 .
• with Franz Heiderich : Geography of World Trade. Founded by Karl Andree . 4 volumes. Seidel, Vienna 1910–1921.
• From wartime for days of peace. Collected Essays. Leuschner & Lubensky, Graz / Leipzig 1916, DNB 361702841 .
• What they are trying to tell us. Reflections on the question of the peace negotiations. Deutsche Vereindruckerei , Graz 1917, DNB 364030070 .
• From today's German Austria. Callwey, Munich 1917, DNB 362740216 .
• The Austrian state idea and its geographical basis. Fromme, Leipzig 1918, DNB 362740232 .
• The geography and the state. Speech at the inauguration as Rector Magnificus of the Karl-Franzens-University in Graz. Leuschner & Lubensky, Graz 1925, DNB 576177679 .
• The Germanness from the Adige to the Danube. Pfeiffer, Munich 1925, DNB 362740224 .

He wrote articles for the Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde , the Geographische Zeitschrift , the communications of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research , the communications of the Imperial and Royal Geographical Society in Vienna and the journal of the Society for Geography in Berlin .

literature

• Johann Soelch : Robert Sieger to celebrate his 60th birthday on March 8, 1924. In: Geographischer Anzeiger. 25, 1924, pp. 1-4.
• Johann Soelch: Robert Sieger. In: Geographical Journal. 33, 6, 1927, pp. 305-313, JSTOR 27812117 .
• Anton Mell : Robert Sieger †. In: Journal of the Historical Association for Styria. Volume 24, 1928, pp. 124–160 ( online , with picture).
• Robert Meyer: Robert Sieger †. In: Communications of the natural science association for Styria. Volume 63, 1926, pp. 18-23 ( online , with picture)

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert Sieger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gregor Gatscher-Riedl :  Winner, Robert . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 2nd revised edition (online only).
• Winner, Robert. In: Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (Hrsg.): Dictionary of German biography. Volume 9: Schmidt-Theyer. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2005, ISBN 978-3-11-096629-9 , p. 319 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
• Short biography on volkskundemuseum.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ archive.org
2. ^ Anton Mell: Robert Sieger †. In: Journal of the Historical Association for Styria. Volume 24, 1928, pp. 124–130, here p. 130 ( online ).
3. ↑ Wolfgang Kessler : East and southeast German homeland books and local monographs after 1945. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 1979, ISBN 978-3-11-164499-8 , p. 246 ( limited preview in Google book search).