Friedrich August Ukert (28 October 1780 – 18 May 1851) was a German history scholar, teacher and humanitarian. He was born in

Eutin Eutin () is the district capital of Eastern Holstein county located in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. As of 2020, the town had some 17,000 inhabitants. History The name Eutin (originally Utin) is of Slavic origin. Its meaning i ...

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. From 1800 he studied

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at the

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as a student of

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, then continued his education at the

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, where his instructors included

Johann Heinrich Voss Johann Heinrich Voss (german: Johann Heinrich Voß, ; 20 February 1751 – 29 March 1826) was a German classicist and poet, known mostly for his translation of Homer's ''Odyssey'' (1781) and ''Iliad'' (1793) into German. Life Voss was born at S ...

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and Christian Gottfried Schütz. After finishing his studies, he worked as a tutor, first in Danzig, then in

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, where he provided education for the two sons of the late Friedrich Schiller. In 1808 he relocated to

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and worked as an inspector at the Gymnasium Illustre. Shortly afterwards, he found employment as a

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at the city's ducal library. At the time of his death, he held the title of chief librarian in Gotha.Ukert, Friedrich August
Deutsche Biographie He helped

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to found the historical collection, ''Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten'' (History of the States of Europe). The crater Ukert on the

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is named after him.

Bibliography

* F. A. Ukert, ''Über die Art der Griechen die Entfernungen zu bestimmen'' (How the Greeks determined Distances), 1813. * F. A. Ukert, ''Bemerkungen über Homer's Geographie'' (On

Homer Homer (; grc, Ὅμηρος , ''Hómēros'') (born ) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'', two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Homer is considered one of the ...

's Geography), 1815. * F. Beaufort and F. A. Ukert, ''Reise durch Klein-Asien, Armenien und Kurdistan'' (Journey to

Asia Minor Anatolia, tr, Anadolu Yarımadası), and the Anatolian plateau, also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula in Western Asia and the westernmost protrusion of the Asian continent. It constitutes the major part of modern-day Turkey. The re ...

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and

Kurdistan Kurdistan ( ku, کوردستان ,Kurdistan ; lit. "land of the Kurds") or Greater Kurdistan is a roughly defined geo-cultural territory in Western Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent majority population and the Kurdish culture, languages ...

), Weimar, 1821. * F. A. Ukert, ''Geographie der Griechen und Römer von den frühesten Zeiten bis auf Ptolemäus'', (Geography of the Greeks and Romans from the earliest times up to the time of

Ptolemy Claudius Ptolemy (; grc-gre, Πτολεμαῖος, ; la, Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was a mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist, who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were of importance ...

), Weimar, 1816–1846, 3 volumes). * F. A. Ukert and

Friedrich Jacobs Friedrich may refer to: Names *Friedrich (surname), people with the surname ''Friedrich'' *Friedrich (given name), people with the given name ''Friedrich'' Other *Friedrich (board game), a board game about Frederick the Great and the Seven Years' ...

, ''Beiträge zur ältern Literatur oder Merkwürdigkeiten der herzöglichen Bibliothek zu Gotha'' (Contributions to the older literature at the ducal library of Gotha), Leipzig, 1835-38. * F. A. Ukert, ''Über Dämonen, Heroen und Genien'' (Demons, Heroes, and Genii), Leipzig, 1850.

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1780 births 1851 deaths 19th-century German historians People from Eutin University of Halle alumni University of Jena alumni German male non-fiction writers German librarians {{Germany-historian-stub