Arved von Schultz

Arved Carl Ludwig von Schultz, also Arved Schultz (* November 14, 1883 on Good Rinkuln at Sabile, Kurland, † December 13, 1967 in Hilden near Dusseldorf ) was a German geographer.

Life

He was the son of the landowner Erich Schultz (1856-1932), including 1892 goods inspector of the city of Riga goods, and his wife Valerie of Moczulski from Lithuania. First, Schultz visited the German of Eltz'sche private high school in Riga and in 1904 the matriculation examination at the local Alexander High School. 1906 Schultz came to Berlin at the Friedrich Wilhelm University (now Humboldt University, Berlin ), to continue his 1904 in Moscow and Tartu initiated studies. During the holidays in the years 1901-1904 led study trips to the Caucasus and the Russian Central Asia. Through the turmoil of 1905, the study was interrupted at the University of Dorpat and Schultz took a six-month study trip in Central Asia. After returning from this trip went by Schultz at the University of Giessen, where he studied geography at the Wilhelm Sievers devoted himself. After another trip in 1909 in the Pamirs he received his doctorate in 1914 in Giessen on the Pamir Taujiks.

As a war geologist published by Schultz in 1918 a pictorial atlas Poland. After the First World War, he went as a lecturer in geography at the new University of Hamburg ( Siegfried Passarge ). In 1923 he was appointed as successor to Prof. Friedrichsen at the Albertus University in Königsberg.

Schultz made ​​extensive trips to Asia and was considered the best German Russia expert of his time. He was a board member of Johann Gottfried von Herder Prize.

Schultz married on April 4, 1914 in green field at Stuhm (West Prussia ) Hella Fanny Gertrude Suhr ( born April 24, 1893 in Green field, † September 2, 1952 in Dusseldorf -Benrath ).

Works

• The natural landscapes of Russian Turkestan, Geographical Review 1922
• Siberia, 1923
• Aride leveling in the Pamirs, 1926
• The Ussuri country, 1930
• With K. Bouterwek, H. Anger, G. Wegener, H. Rosinski: Northern Asia, Central and East Asia in nature, culture and economy, Handbook of Geographic Science 1937
• European Russia, 1937
• The continent of Asia, Stuttgart 1950