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Alexander Georg Supan (3 March 1847 − 7 July 1920) was an Austrian geographer.
Born in
Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon und biographische Dokumentation In 1877 he became a gymnasium teacher in Czernowitz, where in 1880 he was named an associate professor of geography at the university. In 1884 became editor of Petermann's Mitteilungen in Gotha, retaining this post until 1909, when he accepted the chair of geography at Breslau. He died in Breslau on 6 July 1920. His original contributions to geographical science were mainly in the fields of climatology and
Alexander Georg Supan (3 March 1847 − 7 July 1920) was an Austrian geographer.
Biography
Born in Innichen
Innichen (; it, San Candido , lld, Sanciana) is a municipality in South Tyrol in northern Italy.
It is located in the Puster Valley on the Drava River, about northeast of Bolzano, on Italy's border with Austria. It hosts Italy’s International ...
, County of Tyrol, Supan was first educated at the Laibach gymnasium. He studied at the University of Graz (1866–68) as a pupil of historian Franz Krones
Franz Krones Ritter von Marchland (19 November 1835, in Ungarisch-Ostrau – 17 October 1902, in Graz) was an Austrian historian.
He studied history at the University of Vienna, where from 1854 he attended classes at the Institut für Öste ...
, then continued his education at the University of Vienna, receiving his PhD at Graz in 1870. From 1871 to 1875 he worked as a teacher in the Realschule in Laibach, and afterwards studied various sciences in Graz, Halle Halle may refer to:
Places Germany
* Halle (Saale), also called Halle an der Saale, a city in Saxony-Anhalt
** Halle (region), a former administrative region in Saxony-Anhalt
** Bezirk Halle, a former administrative division of East Germany
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and Leipzig.Supan, Alexander Georg (1847–1920), GeographÖsterreichisches Biographisches Lexikon und biographische Dokumentation In 1877 he became a gymnasium teacher in Czernowitz, where in 1880 he was named an associate professor of geography at the university. In 1884 became editor of Petermann's Mitteilungen in Gotha, retaining this post until 1909, when he accepted the chair of geography at Breslau. He died in Breslau on 6 July 1920. His original contributions to geographical science were mainly in the fields of climatology and
oceanography
Oceanography (), also known as oceanology and ocean science, is the scientific study of the oceans. It is an Earth science, which covers a wide range of topics, including ecosystem dynamics; ocean currents, waves, and geophysical fluid dynamic ...
. In 1889 he was named editor of the statistical calendar of the '' Almanack de Gotha''.
Works
* ''Lehrbuch der Geographie fur osterreichische Mittelschulen und verwandte Lehranstalten sowie zum Selbstunterrichte'' (1874, 10th edition 1901) – Textbook of geography for Austrian middle schools and related institutions, as well as self-instruction. * ''Statistik der unteren Luftstromungen '' (1881) – Statistics of the lower air currents. * ''Grundzüge der physischen Erdkunde'' (1884, 3rd edition 1903) – Basics of physical geography. * ''Deutsche Schulgeographie'' (1895; latest ed. 1915) – German school geography. * ''Die territoriale entwicklung der europäischen kolonien'' (1906) – The territorial development of the European colonies. * ''Leitlinien der allgemeinen politischen geographie'' (1918) – Guidelines of general political geography. He contributed many papers to ''Petermanns Mitteilungen''.References
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Supan Austrian cartographers University of Vienna alumni Austrian geographers 1847 births 1920 deaths Academic staff of the University of Breslau Academic staff of Chernivtsi University 19th-century Austrian people 20th-century Austrian people University of Graz alumni People from Innichen Geographers from Austria-Hungary Recipients of the Cothenius Medal