Karl Andree (20 October 1808 – 10 August 1875) 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

Andree was born in

Braunschweig Braunschweig () or Brunswick ( , from Low German ''Brunswiek'' , Braunschweig dialect: ''Bronswiek'') is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the ...

. He was educated at

Jena Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a po ...

Göttingen Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the capital of the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, the population was 118,911. General information The ori ...

, 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 ...

. After having been implicated in a students' political agitation he became a journalist, and in 1851 founded the newspaper '' Bremer Handelsblatt''. From 1855, however, he devoted himself entirely to geography and ethnography, working successively at

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 ...

and at

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label= Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...

. During the

American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states ...

, he advocated the cause of the secessionists. In 1862 he founded the important geographical periodical ''Globus''. He died at Wildungen. His son Richard Andree followed in his father's career.

Works

*''Nordamerika in geographischen und geschichtlichen Umrissen'' (Brunswick, 1854) *''Buenos Ayres und die argentinische Republik'' (Leipzig, 1856) *''Geographische Wanderungen'' (Dresden, 1859) *''Geographie des Welthandels'' (Stuttgart, 1867-1872)

References

;Attribution * * 1808 births 1875 deaths Writers from Braunschweig People from the Duchy of Brunswick German geographers University of Jena alumni University of Göttingen alumni Humboldt University of Berlin alumni {{Germany-scientist-stub