Carl Hiekisch
Carl Wilhelm Hiekisch (15 May [O.S. 3 May] 1840 – 20 December [O.S. 7 December] 1901) was a Baltic German geographer.
Life and work
Carl Hiekisch was born in Tallinn and studied in Saint Petersburg and Tartu. In 1882, he received his doctoral degree in geography from Tartu University. From 1867 until 1900 he worked as a teacher in Saint Petersburg, teaching first German but later geography. He travelled widely in Scandinavia, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, the Caribbean and South America, and published ethnographic and geographical works.[1]
Selected works
- Noch einmal die Streitfrage über das Wrangell-Land (1883)
- Das System des Urals : eine orographische Darstellung des europäisch-asiatischen Grenzgebirges (1883)
- Die Tungusen : eine ethnologische Monographie (1879)
References
- ↑ "Hiekisch, Carl Wilhelm". Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon digital (in German). Baltischen Historischen Kommission. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
External links
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