Theobald Fischer
Theobald Fischer (31 October 1846 Kirchsteitz – 17 September 1910) was a German geographer.
Biography
He was educated at the universities of
Mediterranean lands, including North Africa (Atlas lands), e.g. the Tunisian Sahara (1886), Morocco and Algeria (1888). The “Mediterranean region,” an example in the study of regional geography, is a conception the world owes to Fischer: his thesis for the rank of Privatdozent in the University of Bonn (1876) was entitled Beiträge zur physischen Geographie der Mittelmeerländer (Contributions to the physical geography of the lands of the Mediterranean), and his most important publications are a collection of Mittelmeerbilder (Mediterranean pictures) and his work on the Mediterranean peninsulas of Europe in Alfred Kirchhoff's Allgemeine Länderkunde.[1]
He held professorships of geography at the
University of Kiel (1879-1883) and at University of Marburg
from 1883 until his death. In addition to numerous contributions to scientific periodicals, and the works mentioned above, he also published Raccolta dei mappemondi e carte nautiche del XIII. al XVI. secolo (10 atlases, containing 79 leaves, 1881).
Notes
- ^ A complete citation for the last mentioned work is: Fischer, Theobald, “Die südosteuropäischen Halbinsel”, in Alfred Kirchoff, ed., Unser Wissen von der Erde. Allgemeine Erdkunde und Länderkunde. 3: Länderkunde von Europa (Second part, second half). Leipzig: G. Freytag, 1893, p. 65.
References
This article incorporates text from 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica, a publication from 1922, now in the public domain in the United States.
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). . Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company.
- New International Encyclopedia(1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- Balkanologie Footnote [10] gives a very complete citation of Fischer's contribution to Kirchoff's work (visited 26 October 2010).
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