Otto Krümmel
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
He was educated principally at the
In that seaport he found the connection of his subject with marine investigations which directed his subsequent career.
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),
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
- ^ 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
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). . Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company.
External links
Works by or about Otto Krümmel at Wikisource
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