Hermann von Wissmann (geographer)

Hermann von Wissmann (born 2 September 1895 in Etzweiler, † September 5, 1979 in Zell am See ) was a German -Austrian Arabia researcher and professor of geography.

Life

The Son of Africa scientist Hermann von Wissmann studied in Vienna geography and initially joined out with a research paper on the mining issue in the Enns Valley. Between 1931 and 1939 he undertook together with Daniel van der Meulen ( 1894-1989 ) several expeditions to southern Arabia, which should be one of its research priorities. He dealt with the ancient geography and history of this area and developed a chronology of the Old South Arabia. He is regarded as the most important advocate of the so -called Long chronology which dates the beginnings of Sabäerreiches the 8th century BC.

Wissmann, the temporary and the southern Chinese province of Yunnan explored, was one of the last explorers in the style of the second discovery age: He took long caravan trips, on which he worked with Compass and Increment and the seen held with the pen. Last, until his retirement in 1958, he worked as a professor of geography at the University of Tübingen.

Works

  • The peasant colonization and obliteration of the middle Enns. A contribution to the settlement geography of the Eastern Alps, in: Peter Mann's Geographical releases 3, 4 (1927 ), pp. 65-69.
  • Southern Yunnan as a subspace of Southeast Asia, among other things, Heidelberg, 1943.
  • With Maria Höfner, contributions to the historical geography of the pre-Islamic South Arabia ( Proceedings of the humanities and social sciences class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz, born in 1952, No. 4). Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz, Mainz 1953
  • On the history and civilization of Old - South Arabia. (Collection Eduard Glaser, No. III = Austrian Academy of Sciences, philosophical- historical class, session reports, Volume 246) Böhlaus, Vienna 1964
  • Arabia. Documents on the history of discovery, Volume l, Stuttgart 1965
  • The history of Sabäerreiches and the campaign of Aelius Gallus, in: Hildegard Temporini, The Rise and Fall of the Roman world. II principate. Ninth band, first half-band, De Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1976, p 308-544
  • The Land of Frankincense Sa'kalan, Samarum and Mos -cha, Vienna 1977
  • The story of Saba. II The Great Empire of the Sabeans to its end in the early 4th century BC (Austrian Academy of Sciences of Humanities class. Session reports, Volume 402, edited by Walter W. Müller ) Publisher of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Vienna, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3700105169
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