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This article deals with the hydrologist Wilhelm Halbfaß. For the Indologist Wilhelm Halbfass see Wilhelm Halbfass .

Wilhelm Halbfaß (born June 26, 1856 in Hamburg , † October 29, 1938 in Jena ) was a German hydrogeographer .

life and work

Halbfaß had studied mathematics and physics at the universities of Freiburg , Würzburg and Strasbourg before he received his doctorate in Strasbourg in 1881. After the state examination he taught at the secondary school and was appointed high school professor in Neuhaldensleben in 1901 . In 1912 he was accepted as a member of the Leopoldina . For health reasons he resigned from school in 1910 and went into retirement. In 1923 he qualified as a professor at the University of Jena in the field of hydrogeography and in 1931 was appointed honorary professor.

Works (excerpt)

• Depth and temperature conditions of some of the lakes in the Lech region . Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen 41, 1895.
• Contributions to the knowledge of the Pomeranian lakes , with 6 maps. Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen, supplement 136, Gotha 1901, online.
• The morphometry of the European lakes , journal of the Society for Geography in Berlin, 1903/1904.
• Away from Heerstrasse. Wandering of a lonely person through Germany's Gaue . Xenien-Verlag, Leipzig 1913.
• The lakes of the earth . Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen, supplement 185, 1922.
• Basics of Comparative Seology , 1923.
• Sounding results in some lakes in the Seeon area north of Lake Chiemsee . International Review of the Entire Hydrobiology and Hydrography, 1928, Volume 21, Issue 2, Pages 208–216.
• The Lakes , Gutenberg's Handbook of Geophysics IV, 1933.
• My life. Memories of an eighty-year-old , Jena: Neuenhahn 1936.

literature

• Reiner Keller:  Half a barrel, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 535 ( digitized version ).
• Sylvin H. Müller-Navarra: A forgotten chapter from lake research - Wilhelm Halbfaß (1856-1938), internal Seiches and the Madüsee (Jezioro Miedwie). (= Forum of the History of Science; 1). m-press, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-89975-540-5 (also dissertation, University of Hamburg 2005)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ member entry of Wilhelm Halbfaß at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on April 12, 2015.
2. ^ Reprint of the converted Fraktur edition as: Wilhelm Halbfaß (1856-1938). Mathematician, physicist and hydrogeographer. Autobiography . Severus-Verlag, Hamburg 2011. ISBN 978-3-86347-186-6

Web links

• Works by and about Wilhelm Halbfaß  in the German Digital Library