Heinrich Edmund Naumann

Heinrich Edmund Naumann ( born September 11, 1854 in Meissen, † February 1, 1927 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German geographer and geologist. He is considered the father of Japanese geology.

Life and career

Edmund Naumann studied geography and received his doctorate in this subject. Between 1875 and 1880 he taught at the University of Tokyo. In Japan, he was director of the 1880 Japanese topographical and geological country recordings. Naumann did research during his time in Japan on the geography and in particular for volcanic activity in the country. His name is associated in Japan today with the discovery of the " Fossa Magna " and the so-called " Naumann elephant ". After he returned to Germany, he completed his habilitation in 1886 for geology and physical geography at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster, where he became a lecturer. Ten years later, Neumann was Head of the Department of Mines and Geology of the Metallurgical Society in Frankfurt am Main. In 1902 he become the Director of the Central Mountain beings. In addition to his research, particularly to Japan but also to Anatolia and Mesopotamia, he published also always travel reports. 1973 Naumann was opened in honor of a museum in Itoigawa.

Naumann returned from the Far East with a fairly critical Japan picture back. One of his articles in the Allgemeine Zeitung of June 1886 attracted the attention of young Japanese intellectuals Ogai Mori ( Mori Rintaro ), who studied medicine in Berlin at that time. His multi-page replica was printed, as well as the reaction Naumann's in two parts and in February 1887, the final response of Mori. Although this could clarify various misconceptions, but harder he teamed up with Naumann's accusation that Japan copy the west without a deeper understanding of the background and at the same time seriously weakens by the disregard of its own history and culture.

Naumann was also the son of Philipp Franz von Siebold - drew attention to that at the Ueno Station in Tokyo, a beach line is that he should look a bit more detail - Heinrich von Siebold. It was 10 to 15 m thick shell debris and waste. In this now-famous Moluskenhaufen of Oomori found by Siebold in 1877 several pit dwellings, pottery shards and human bones. His publications also made ​​him famous later.

Writings

• About earthquakes and Vulcanausbrüche in Japan, Écho du Japon, Yokohama 1878
• New contributions to the geology and geography of Japan, Perthes, Gotha 1893
• Macedonia and its new railway Salonik - monastyr. A travelogue, Oldenbourg, Munich -Leipzig 1894