Alfred Philippson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German geologist and geographer
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Place of Birth: Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Alfred Philippson
- Alfred Philippson (1 January 1864 – 28 March 1953) was a German geologist and geographer. He was born at Bonn, son of Ludwig Philippson.
- He received his education at the gymnasium and university of his native town and at the University of Leipzig (Ph.D.
- 1886).
- In 1892 he became Privatdozent at Bonn, was appointed assistant professor seven years later, and in 1904 he was called to Bern as professor of geography.
- Having made voyages through Italy (Apulia region), Greece, Turkey, and Asia Minor, he published: Studien über Wasserscheiden, Berlin, 1886; Der Peloponnes, ib.
- 1892; Europa (with Neumann), Leipzig, 1894; Thessalien und Epirus, Berlin, 1897; Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Griechischen Inselwelt, Gotha, 1901; Das Mittelmeergebiet, Leipzig, 1904.
- He also published essays in the technical journals, such as Das fernste Italien.
- Geographische Reiseskizzen und Studien, Leipzig, 1925, and Apulien, Netherlands, 1937. Since 1887 Philippson undertook, on a commission from the Berlin Akademie der Wissenschaften, an annual journey to Asia Minor for the purpose of geological investigation.
- His chief object in these excursions was to study, on a geological basis, the phenomena of the earth's surface both in their interrelationship and in their influence on the human race. As a Jew, he lost his position under the Nazis.
- During the war, he was sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp (1942–45), where he wrote a memoir on his scholarly activity (Wie ich zum Geographen wurde, partly published in 1996).
- He survived the war in part thanks to the support of his friend, Sven Hedin, resuming work on his multi-volume essay on the Greek landscapes (with E.
- Kirsten; posthumously published and continued by Kirsten).
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