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2 days ago · Leipzig established a professorship of Anthropology, Ethnography, and Pre-history in 1901 (Karl Weule, who established an ethnological and biological determinist school of African research) and a professorship for "Colonial geography and colonial policy" in 1915. The researcher Hans Meyer was director of the "Institute for Colonial Geography ...
1 day ago · According to English geographer Halford Mackinder and English explorer Harry Johnston, Rebmann in 1848 was the first European to report the existence of Kilimanjaro. [49] [50] Hans Meyer has claimed that Rebmann first arrived in Africa in 1846 and quotes Rebmann's diary entry of 11 May 1848 as saying,
5 days ago · The Syrian oasis city Tadmor, better known as Palmyra, has received by far the most attention within scholarship on the Roman Near East over recent decades. New evidence and recent research allow us to better understand many aspects of Palmyra on its own terms, but it also has highlighted the lack of synthetically published data from Palmyra itself and from broader comparative settings. In ...
3 days ago · -- He comments on books by Hans Meyer and Cassirer. OJ 10/3, [155] Typewritten picture postcard from Deutsch to Schenker, dated October 9, 1931 Deutsch has learned, from an 1892 exhibition catalogue, that the Moscheles family owned Beethoven sketch manuscripts and that G. B. Davy owned a number of autographs, and a sketchbook for the Cello Sonata Op. 102, No. 2.
2 days ago · Hans Meyer and Ludwig Purtscheller [102] Nov 1889 * Iztaccihuatl: 5230: Sierra Nevada (Mex) James de Salis: 26 Jul 1890: Mount Sir Donald: 3284: Columbia Mts: Emil Huber, Carl Sulzer, Harry Cooper: 4 Jul 1893: Devils Tower: 1558: Rocky Mountains: William Rogers and Willard Ripley: 17 Aug 1894: Mount Temple: 3544: Canadian Rockies: Walter Wilcox ...
5 days ago · How do maps made using Geographic Information System (GIS) make use of computer technology? What role would each play in the creation of a map: mental maps, GPS, GIS, and aerial imagery? What are the 3 kinds kinds of perspective that geographers use to look at the world? Name at least 3 ways that people use geography in their work.
5 days ago · Kuno Meyer was a German scholar who as an expert in Celtic philogoy and literature and a pioneering scholar of old Irish. He edited and translated scripts and documents which made him the chief interpreter of early Irish literature for English and German readers. He founded and edited four journals devoted to Celtic Studies, published numerous ...
