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Gustav Clodius
Gustav Karl Heinrich Wilhelm Clodius (26 August 1866 – 5 November 1944) was a German pastor, antiquarian, and naturalist who contributed to studies on the birds of West Pomerania. Along with Carl Wüstnei he published a book on the birds of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg which includes historical information on the nesting of white storks in the region. Clodius was born in Camin near Wittenburg, son of Lutheran pastor Gustav (the elder, 1824–1904) and Maria Caroline Luise née Flörke (1828–1922). He studied locally where he was influenced by Kantor Burgdorf who showed him stuffed birds. He then entered the Gymnasium Fridericianum in Schwerin and graduated in 1886 to join the University of Rostock to study theology. After studies in Erlangen and Greifswald he graduated from Rostock and became a private tutor in Lenschow. In 1894 he became a preacher at Retschow and the next year vice-rector at Grabow. In 1896 he returned to his hometown of Camin to succeed his father. From ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Clodius
Gustav Karl Heinrich Wilhelm Clodius (26 August 1866 – 5 November 1944) was a German pastor, antiquarian, and naturalist who contributed to studies on the birds of West Pomerania. Along with Carl Wüstnei he published a book on the birds of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg which includes historical information on the nesting of white storks in the region. Clodius was born in Camin near Wittenburg, son of Lutheran pastor Gustav (the elder, 1824–1904) and Maria Caroline Luise née Flörke (1828–1922). He studied locally where he was influenced by Kantor Burgdorf who showed him stuffed birds. He then entered the Gymnasium Fridericianum in Schwerin and graduated in 1886 to join the University of Rostock to study theology. After studies in Erlangen and Greifswald he graduated from Rostock and became a private tutor in Lenschow. In 1894 he became a preacher at Retschow and the next year vice-rector at Grabow. In 1896 he returned to his hometown of Camin to succeed his father. From ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Pomerania
Historical Western Pomerania, also called Cispomerania, Fore Pomerania, Front Pomerania or Hither Pomerania (german: Vorpommern), is the western extremity of the historic region of Pomerania forming the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, Western Pomerania's boundaries have changed through the centuries as it belonged to various countries such as Poland, the Duchy of Pomerania (later part of the Holy Roman Empire), Sweden, Denmark, as well as Prussia which incorporated it as the Province of Pomerania. Today, the region embraces the whole area of Pomerania west of the Oder River, small bridgeheads east of the river, as well as the islands in the Szczecin Lagoon. Its majority forms part of Germany and has been divided between the states of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Brandenburg, with the cities of Stralsund ( pl, link=no, Strzałów) and Greifswald ( pl, link=no, Gryfia), as well as towns such as Ribnitz-Damgarten (Damgarten only), Bergen auf Rügen (Rügen Island), Anklam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Wüstnei
Carl Wüstnei (19 September 1843 – 21 December 1902) was a German ornithologist, engineer, and artist. In 1900, he published ''Die Vögel der Grossherzogthümer Mecklenburg'' ( "The Birds of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg"), a book on the birds of the Mecklenburg region, in collaboration with Gustav Clodius. Life and work Wüstnei was born in Schelfstadt, Schwerin where his father Karl Georg Gustav Wüstnei (1810-1858, a fungus '' Wuestneia'' is named after him) was a teacher, theologian and naturalist. He went to the Gymnasium Fridericianum Schwerin. His father died when he was young and he then went to the Brockelmanns iron foundry as an apprentice. Subsequently, his education was supported by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II in 1867 and he went to study in Berlin at the Royal Trades Academy (predecessor of TU Berlin The Technical University of Berlin (official name both in English and german: link=no, Technische Universität Berlin, also known as TU Berlin and Berlin I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mecklenburg
Mecklenburg (; nds, label=Low German, Mękel(n)borg ) is a historical region in northern Germany comprising the western and larger part of the federal-state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The largest cities of the region are Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg, Wismar and Güstrow. The name Mecklenburg derives from a castle named '' Mikilenburg'' (Old Saxon for "big castle", hence its translation into New Latin and Greek as ), located between the cities of Schwerin and Wismar. In Slavic languages it was known as ''Veligrad'', which also means "big castle". It was the ancestral seat of the House of Mecklenburg; for a time the area was divided into Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz among the same dynasty. Linguistically Mecklenburgers retain and use many features of Low German vocabulary or phonology. The adjective for the region is ''Mecklenburgian'' or ''Mecklenburgish'' (german: mecklenburgisch, link=no); inhabitants are called Mecklenburgians or Mecklenburgers ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wittenburg
Wittenburg () is a town in the district Ludwigslust-Parchim in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Population 6,092, area 80.0 km². Wittenburg has been the seat of the Amt of Wittenburg since January 2004. It is in the west of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies on the little river Motel. The settlements of Helm, Klein Wolde, Wölzow, Lehsen, Körchow and Ziggelmark are part of Wittenburg. At the beginning of the 12th century, Wittenburg belonged to the territory of the Polaben Obotrites. Wittenburg was first mentioned in 1154 and gained town privileges in 1230. Number of inhabitants Notable people * Harald Ringstorff (born 1939), politician (SPD) Gallery Image:Wittenburg church.jpg, St. Bartholomew's church File:Wittenburg tower.jpg, Tower of town wall File:Wittenburg Amtsberg.jpg, File:Wittenburg Stadtmauer Wallstr.jpg, Town wall File:Wittenburg Toitenwinkel 4.jpg, Timber framing File:Wittenburg Gluecksfaenger.jpg, Sculpture on market square File:Wittenburg Motel bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schwerin
Schwerin (; Mecklenburgisch dialect, Mecklenburgian Low German: ''Swerin''; Latin: ''Suerina'', ''Suerinum'') is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Germany, second-largest city of the northeastern States of Germany, German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as well as of the region of Mecklenburg, after Rostock. It has around 96,000 inhabitants, and is thus the least populous of all German state capitals. Schwerin is located on the southwestern shore of Lake Schwerin (''Schweriner See''), the second-largest lake of the Mecklenburg Lake Plateau after the Müritz, and there are eleven other lakes within Schwerin's city limits. The city is surrounded by the district of Nordwestmecklenburg, Northwestern Mecklenburg to the north, and the district of Ludwigslust-Parchim to the south. Schwerin and the two surrounding districts form the eastern outskirts of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region. The name of the city is of Polabian Slavs, Slavic origin, deriving from the root ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugen Geinitz
Franz Eugen Geinitz (15 February 1854, Dresden Р9 March 1925, Rostock) was a German geologist and mineralogist best known for his geological studies of the Mecklenburg region. He was the son of geologist Hanns Bruno Geinitz. Biography In 1876 he obtained his PhD from the University of Leipzig with a dissertation on mineral pseudomorphs. During the following year he received his habilitation from the University of G̦ttingen, and shortly afterwards, became an associate professor of geology and mineralogy at the University of Rostock. In 1881 he became a full professor and director of the mineralogical-geological institute at Rostock. In 1903/04 he served as university rector.Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium biographical sketch In 1882 he was named head of the Mecklenburg Geological Landesmuseum. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1866 Births
Events January–March * January 1 ** Fisk University, a historically black university, is established in Nashville, Tennessee. ** The last issue of the abolitionist magazine '' The Liberator'' is published. * January 6 – Ottoman troops clash with supporters of Maronite leader Youssef Bey Karam, at St. Doumit in Lebanon; the Ottomans are defeated. * January 12 ** The ''Royal Aeronautical Society'' is formed as ''The Aeronautical Society of Great Britain'' in London, the world's oldest such society. ** British auxiliary steamer sinks in a storm in the Bay of Biscay, on passage from the Thames to Australia, with the loss of 244 people, and only 19 survivors. * January 18 – Wesley College, Melbourne, is established. * January 26 – Volcanic eruption in the Santorini caldera begins. * February 7 – Battle of Abtao: A Spanish naval squadron fights a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet, at the island of Abtao, in the Chiloé Archipelago of southern Chile. * February 13 †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1944 Deaths
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free France, Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command First Army (France), French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in North Africa. ** Landing at Saidor: 13,000 US and Australian troops land on Papua New Guinea, in an attempt to cut off a Japanese retreat. * January 8 – WWII: Philippine Commonwealth troops enter the province of Ilocos Sur in northern Luzon and attack Japanese forces. * January 11 ** President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a Second Bill of Rights for social and economic security, in his State of the Union address. ** The Nazi German administration expands Kraków-PÅ‚aszów concentration camp into the larger standalone ''Konzentrationslager Plaszow bei Krakau'' in occupied Poland. * January 12 – WWII: Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle begin a 2-day conference in Marrakech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
