Albert Herrmann

Albert Herrmann ( born January 20, 1886 in Hannover, † 19 April 1945 in Plzeň ) was a German historian, Geography. His specialty was the ancient geography of the Mediterranean and the Chinese geography.

Life

Albert Hermann, the son of the high school director Privy Konrad Herrmann (1844-1910), attended the Royal Grammar School in Lingen on the Ems, which led his father. After leaving examination ( 1904), he studied history, geography and German at the universities of Göttingen and Berlin ( winter semester 1906/1907 ). Most suggestions received Herrmann while studying the geographer Hermann Wagner. In 1909 he was in Göttingen phil with a study on the history of the Silk Road to the Dr.. doctorate. The following year, he passed the state examination for teachers at secondary schools.

After the seminar year at Empress Augusta Victoria High School in Linden and the probationary year at the Goethe -Gymnasium and at the Bismarck School in Hanover Herrmann furthered his studies at the Oriental Institute of the Berlin University, where he in 1915 obtained his diploma of Oriental Languages ​​. In World War I he was not drafted because he was found in the screening for disqualifying. As of October 7, 1915 Herrmann worked as a research assistant teacher at the Leibniz - secondary school in Charlottenburg. A year later he was hired as a senior teacher.

In addition to the education service Herrmann dedicated scientific studies. He became a member of the Geographical Society of Berlin and the German Oriental Society. In 1923 he completed his habilitation at the University of Berlin for historical geography and held since then lectures from. On 1 October 1933 he was retired and withdrew from the school system. At university he was in 1934 appointed as non-tenured associate professor. To April 1, 1939 to be teaching was extended to historical geography of the Mediterranean countries in antiquity and the Far East.

Herrmann's performance as geography historian is particularly in the field of Chinese Geography, which he published fundamental research. His most famous work is the Historical and commercial atlas of China ( 1935), which was in use worldwide. His theories on the location of the ancient sites of Atlantis ( in North Africa) and Tartessos ( Chott el Jerid in ) were regarded as eccentric in the professional world and largely rejected.

Writings (selection )

  • The ancient Silk Road between China and Syria. From the second book: Central Asia after Ssĕma - Tsi'en and in the annals of the Han Dynasty. Göttingen 1910 ( dissertation)
  • The ancient Silk Road between China and Syria. Contributions to the ancient geography of Asia. Berlin 1910 ( sources and research on ancient history and geography, 21; extended dissertation). reprint 1977
  • Ancient Geography of the lower Oxusgebiets. Berlin 1914
  • The routes between China, India and Rome around 100 AD birth. Leipzig 1922
  • Marco Polo: At the court of the Great Khan. Traveling in High Asia and China. Leipzig 1924. Edition Leipzig 1949. 2nd edition, Leipzig 1951
  • The wanderings of Odysseus. Berlin 1926
  • The global map of Urbibel: With an Appendix on the Tartessos and the Etruscans question. Braunschweig 1931
  • Lou -lan: China, India and Rome in the light of excavations at Lobnor. Leipzig 1931 Japanese translation of Hisao Matsuda: Rô -ran: Ryûsha ni umoreta OTO. Tokyo 1969
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