Aurel Krause

Aurel Krause ( born December 30, 1848 in Polish Konopath at Schwetz, West Prussia, † 14 March 1908 in Great light field, today Berlin) was a German naturalist and ethnologist.

Life

Aurel Krause was born in 1848 on the farm of his father in August Krause Polish Konopath in West Prussia. He had several brothers and sisters. The older brother Albert (1841-1913) emigrated to the USA, took part in the civil war and was the late 1880s, City Engineer of Buffalo. Particularly close relations had Aurel but to his younger brother Arthur. Both studied in Berlin, the natural sciences, post-doctoral and teachers were then at the Luisenstädtischer secondary school. Aurel also taught mineralogy, botany and zoology. Scientifically he dealt first with the fossils of the North German Beyrichienkalks. During the school holidays, the brothers undertook extensive journeys, including to Italy, Dalmatia and Norway.

1881 were commissioned by the Geographical Society in Bremen with the implementation of a natural and ethnological expedition to the Bering Strait Aurel and Arthur Krause. Conveys had Gustav Nachtigall, chairman of the Geographical Society of Berlin. They began their journey on 15 April 1881, reached via Bremerhaven, New York and San Francisco on August 6, St. Lawrence Bay. Over the next eight weeks, they explored the coasts and coastal areas of Chukotka between Uelen at Cape Deschnjow and Provideniya Bay in the south. The result was a wealth of natural and ethnographic observations, confirmed by numerous collectors' items.

From October to December 1881, the brothers Krause traveled across San Francisco to Chilkoot at the northern end of the Lynn Canal in Alaska. Aurel Krause remained until April 1882 in Alaska and dealt mainly with anthropological field research, even if he continued to make natural history and geographical observations. In his seminal work published in 1885 Tlinkit The Indians, he described the first comprehensive customs, religion and language of the Indians of the Tlingit people.

This brought on the trip herbarium of the brothers Krause was the botanist Fritz Kurtz (1854-1920) studied scientifically, the Moose by Karl Johann August Müller, the liverworts by Franz Stephani ( 1842-1927 ). Part of their ethnological collection pieces seen today in Bremen Overseas Museum. Of the brothers Krause in the St. Lawrence Bay salvaged fossils from the Quaternary are part of the geoscience collection of the University of Bremen.

1888 Aurel Krause was editor of the Science weekly. He also traveled to Sicily and in 1893 the Canary Islands.

The highest peak of Takhinsha Mountains in Alaska, the 2,127 m high Mount Krause is named after the brothers Krause, as well as the local glacier Glacier Arthur and Aurel Glacier.

Writings (selection )

  • Aurel Krause: The fauna of the so-called. Beyrichien or Choneten limestones of the North German Diluvium. In: Journal of the Geological Society 29, Issue 1, 1877, pp. 1-49
  • Aurel Krause, Arthur Krause: The Expedition of the Bremen Geographical Society by the Chukchi Peninsula and Alaska. In: German Geographical leaves 5, 1882, pp. 1-35, 111-153, 177-223, 308-325
  • Aurel Krause: The Chilcat area in Alaska. In: Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin 18, 1883, pp. 344-368
  • Aurel Krause: The Tlinkit Indians. Costenoble, Jena 1885
  • Aurel Krause: About Beyrichien and related ostracods in untersilurischen attachments. In: Journal of the German Geological Society 41, 1889, pp. 1-26
  • Aurel Krause: Tenerife. Travel sketches from 1893. In: German Geographical sheets 17, 1894, pp. 1-43

Swell

  • Jan- Peter Frahm, Jens Eggers: Encyclopedia of German Bryologen, Vol 2 ISBN 3-8311-0986-9, p.255
  • Jörg- Friedhelm Venzke: Research trip to the Krause brothers to the Chukchi Peninsula, Northeast Siberia, in 1881. Polar Research 60, Issue 1, 1990, pp. 55-60.
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