Otto Krümmel
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Otto Krümmel (8 July 1854 in Exin, Province of Posen – 12 October 1912 in Cologne) was a German geographer influential in awakening public interest in oceanography.
Biography
[edit]He was educated principally at the University of Göttingen, where he was a student of Johann Eduard Wappäus and Karl von Seebach. He approached the subject of geography at first through the study of classics and history. In 1882/83 he was associated with the German Naval Observatory in Hamburg, and in 1883, became an associate professor of geography at the University of Kiel (full professor in 1884, rector 1897/98).[1] In that seaport he found the connection of his subject with marine investigations which directed his subsequent career.
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He remained at Kiel until 1911, and during his tenure of it he introduced the science of oceanography to public interest through his handbook Der Ozean (1886),[2] completed Heinrich Georg von Boguslawski's work on oceanography in Friedrich Ratzel's series of geographical handbooks (1887),[3] joined, and published an account of, the “Plankton Expedition” on board the National in the North Atlantic Ocean (1889),[4] served on the International Council for the Study of the Sea (1900-9), and finally produced the great work of his life, the Handbuch der Ozeanographie, in 1907-11.[5]
In 1911, Krümmel quit Kiel to take up the professorship of geography at the University of Marburg as the successor of Theobald Fischer.[1]
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b Krümmel, Otto In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X, S. 109 f.
- ^ Der ozean : eine einführung in die allgemeine meereskunde HathiTrust Digital Library
- ^ Nature, Volume 37 edited by Sir Norman Lockyer
- ^ Die plankton-expedition im sommer 1889. (7. Dezember 1889) HathiTrust Library
- ^ Otto Krümmel (1907). "Handbuch der Ozeanographie". J. Engelhorn.
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References
[edit]- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. .
External links
[edit]Works by or about Otto Krümmel at Wikisource