Max Eckert-Greifendorff on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
Max Eckert (after 1934, Max Eckert-Greifendorff: 10 April 1868 in Chemnitz,
Taylor and Francis Online (paywall)
Max Eckert (after 1934, Max Eckert-Greifendorff: 10 April 1868 in Chemnitz, Kingdom of Saxony
The Kingdom of Saxony (german: Königreich Sachsen), lasting from 1806 to 1918, was an independent member of a number of historical confederacies in Napoleonic through post-Napoleonic Germany. The kingdom was formed from the Electorate of Saxo ...
– 26 December 1938, in Aachen) was a German geographer
A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. The Greek prefix "geo" means "earth" a ...
.
Biography
He received his education inLöbau
Löbau ( Upper Sorbian: Lubij) is a city in the east of Saxony, Germany, in the traditional region of Upper Lusatia. It is situated between the slopes of the Löbauer Berg and the fertile hilly area of the Upper Lusatian Mountains. It is the ga ...
and Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...
, and taught for some time at Löbau and Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...
. In 1903, he became Privatdozent at Kiel University
Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (german: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in ...
. In 1907, he was appointed to the chair of geography in the Royal Technical High School of Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle). He invented the six Eckert projections and others such as Eckert-Greifendorff projection
Writings
He has published ''Schulatlas'' (School atlas, 45th ed., 1912), ''Wesen und Aufgabe der Wirtschafts- und Verkehrsgeographie'' (Essentials and purpose of economic and transportation geography, 1903), ''Grundriss der Handelsgeographie'' (Fundamentals of the geography of trade, 1905), ''Leitfaden der Handelsgeographie'' (Primer of the geography of trade, 3d ed., 1911), ''Neue Entwürfe für Erdkarten'' (New ideas for world maps, 1906), ''Die Kartographie als Wissenschaft'' (Cartography as a discipline, 1907), ''The New Fields of Geography, especially Commercial Geography'' (1907), ''Geographisches Praktikum'', with Otto Krümmel (Geography in practice, 1908), ''Fortschritt in der geographischen Erschliessung unsern Kolonien'' (1908 et seq.), ''Die Kartenprojektion'' (Map projections, 1910), ''Deutsche Kulturgeographie'' (German cultural geography, 1912), ''Wirtschaftsatlas der deutschen Kolonien'' (Economic atlas of the German colonies, 1912), ''Die wirtschaftliche Bedeutung des Panama-Kanals'' (The economic significance of thePanama Canal
The Panama Canal ( es, Canal de Panamá, link=no) is an artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean and divides North and South America. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a condui ...
, 1913), ''Die Metallverbreitung und Metallgewerbe der Welt'' (World metal trade and distribution, 1913).
See also
*Eckert II projection
The Eckert II projection is an equal-area pseudocylindrical map projection. In the equatorial aspect (where the equator is shown as the horizontal axis) the network of longitude and latitude lines consists solely of straight lines, and the outer ...
*Eckert IV projection
The Eckert IV projection is an equal-area pseudocylindrical map projection. The length of the polar lines is half that of the equator, and lines of longitude are semiellipses, or portions of ellipses. It was first described by Max Eckert in 1 ...
*Eckert VI projection
The Eckert VI projection is an equal-area pseudocylindrical map projection. The length of polar line is half that of the equator, and lines of longitude are sinusoids. It was first described by Max Eckert in 1906 as one of a series of three p ...
Notes
Max Eckert's Kartenwissenschaft—the turning point in German cartography, Wolfgang Scharfe, Imago Mundi, Vol. 38, Iss. 1, 198Taylor and Francis Online (paywall)
References
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Eckert-Greifendorff, Max 1868 births 1938 deaths People from Chemnitz People from the Kingdom of Saxony German geographers German cartographers Leipzig University alumni