Rudolf Credner

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Memorial stone for Rudolf Credner in the Credner Park in Greifswald

Georg Rudolf Credner (born November 27, 1850 in Gotha ; † June 6, 1908 in Greifswald ) was a German geographer , geologist and university professor . He founded the university geography at the University of Greifswald . Credner's main fields of research were geomorphology , hydrogeography and glaciology .

Life

Rudolf Credner, son of the geologist Heinrich Credner (1809–1876), attended grammar schools in Gotha , Hanover , Berlin and Halle an der Saale as a result of his father's various transfers . After graduating from the Latina in Halle, he went to the mining school in Clausthal . He then studied at the universities of Leipzig , Göttingen and Halle . After receiving his doctorate in Halle, he was employed as a section geologist at the State Geological Institute of the Kingdom of Saxony in 1876 . In 1878 he received his habilitation in geography in Halle .

In 1881, Credner went to the University of Greifswald as an associate professor of geography , where he set up the "Geographical Apparatus". In the following year he founded the Geographische Gesellschaft zu Greifswald , which he chaired until the end of his life and whose annual reports he published. Also in 1882 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . He was a corresponding member of the Thuringian-Saxon Association for Geography . In 1891 he was appointed full professor in Greifswald. In 1901 he was rector of the university. Credner was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 4th class in 1900 , the title " Privy Councilor " in 1905 and an honorary doctorate from the Medical Faculty in 1906 .

Grave of Rudolf Credner (2014)

Rudolf Credner was buried in a grave of honor in the old cemetery in Greifswald in 1908 . In 1912, the Geographical Society erected a memorial to him in a park he had donated (today the Credner complex at the zoo in Greifswald). In 2006 a street in Greifswald was named after Rudolf Credner.

Credner was married and had four children. His son Wilhelm Credner (* 1892; † 1948) became a geographer like his father.

Fonts

  • Ceratites fastigatus and Salenia texana. In: Journal for the whole of natural science . Volume 46 (NF 12) 1875, pp. 105-115.
  • The Hainichen green slate system in the Kingdom of Saxony . Dissertation, Halle 1876.
  • The deltas: their morphology, geographical distribution and conditions of formation . Habilitation thesis, Halle 1878.
  • The relic lakes . 1888.
  • Rügen: An island study . 1893.
  • Orographic overview map of the island of Rügen . Wagner & Debes, Leipzig 1903.
  • Contributions to the cultural studies of Pomerania . Greifswald 1906.

See also

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania? A dictionary of persons . Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-282-9 , p. 88.
  • Lothar fights : Credner, Rudolf (1850–1908) . In: Dirk Alvermann , Nils Jörn (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon für Pommern . Volume 2 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series V, Volume 48.2). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22541-4 , pp. 67-71.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the holdings of the annual reports in the German National Library at http://d-nb.info/01274185X .
  2. ^ Directory of the members of the Thuringian-Saxon Geography Association on March 31, 1885 ( Memento from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
predecessor Office successor
Johannes Haussleiter Rector of the University of Greifswald
1901 		Felix Stoerk
personal data
SURNAME Credner, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Credner, Georg Rudolf (Christian name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer, geologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1908
Place of death Greifswald