Wilhelm Meinardus
Wilhelm Meinardus (born July 14, 1867 in Oldenburg , † August 28, 1952 in Göttingen ) was a German geographer .
Meinardus was from 1906 professor at the University of Münster and from 1920 at the University of Göttingen .
He worked in the fields of climatology and oceanography. In 1909 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . Since 1929 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . The Meinardus Glacier in Antarctica is named in his honor. The Antarctic Convergence is also known as the Meinardus Line.
Fonts (selection)
- The development of the maps of the annual isotherms from Alexander von Humboldt to Heinrich Wilhelm Dove . In: Adolf Engler (Ed.): Scientific contributions to the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of A. von Humboldt's journey to America on June 5, 1799 . Kühl, Berlin 1899 (Humboldt Centenar script).
- General climatology . In: Fritz Klute (ed.): German Empire in nature, culture and economy . Athenaion-Verlag, Potsdam 1936 (Handbook of Geographical Science; Vol. 3).
- Climate science of the Antarctic . In: Wladimir Peter Köppen , Rudolf Geiger : Handbuch der Klimatologie, Vol. 4 . Kraus, Nendeln 1972 (reprint of the Berlin 1938 edition).
literature
- Hermann Flohn : Meinardus, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 656 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Johannes Georgi : Wilhelm Meinardus, Nestor of German Polar Research, on his 85th birthday (PDF; 723 kB) . In: Polarforschung 22, 1952, pp. 181-185.
Web links
Commons : Wilhelm Meinardus - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Meinardus in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Meinardus obituary in the 1953 yearbook of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (PDF file).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meinardus, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oldenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 28, 1952 |
| Place of death | Goettingen |