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KARL See also:ANDREE (1808-1875) , See also:German geographer, was See also:born at See also:Brunswick on the 20th of See also:October 18o8 . He was educated at See also:Jena, See also:Gottingen and See also:Berlin . After having been implicated in a students' See also:political agitation he became a journalist, and in 1851 founded the See also:Bremer Handelsblatt . From 1855, however, he devoted himself entirely to See also:geography and ethnography, working successively at See also:Leipzig and at See also:Dresden . In 1862 he founded the important See also:geographical periodical Globus . His See also:works include Nordamerika in geographischen and geschichtlichen Umrissen (Brunswick, 1854), Geographische Wanderungen (Dresden, 1859), and Geographic See also:des Welthandels (See also:Stuttgart, 1867-1872) . He died at Wilduhgen on the loth of See also:August 1875 . His son See also:RICHARD, born on the 26th of See also:February 1835, followed his See also:father's career, devoting himself especially to ethnography . He wrote numerous books on this subject, dealing notably with the races of his own See also:country, while an important See also:general See also:work was Ethnographische Parallelen and Vorgleiche (Stuttgart, 1878) . He also took up cartography, having a See also:chief See also:share in the See also:production of the Physikalisch-statistische See also:Atlas des deutschen Reiches (Leipzig, 1877), Allgemeine Handatlas (first ed., 1881), and other atlases; and he continued the editorship of the Globus . |
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