Richard Andree
Richard Andree ( born February 26, 1835 in Braunschweig, † June 22, 1912 in Munich) was a German geographer and ethnographer.
Life
Richard Andree studied in Leipzig, where he joined in 1857 the Corps Lusatia. The Corps later awarded him an honorary membership. Like his father Karl Andree he devoted himself to geography and was known for his special fondness for ethnography on professional circles.
As Head of the Cartographic Institute of the publisher Velhagen & Klasing in Leipzig from 1873 to 1890 he worked together with cartography and was instrumental in the creation of the Physical- Statistical Atlas of the German Empire as well as at school atlases. He also worked as an editor for the scientific journal globe. Andree's work also influenced Arnost Mukas investigations of the Sorbian cultural life. Since 1903, Andree was married to the Austrian folklorist Marie Andree - Eysn. In 1886 he was elected a member of the Scholars Academy Leopoldina, 1909 he was made an honorary member of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory.
Richard Andree died during a train journey from Munich to Nuremberg at the age of 76 years.
Services
Andree was a representative of comparative ethnology and represented the idea of the anthropologist and cultural historian Adolf Bastian, that all peoples would go through the same stages of development and therefore also developed the same beliefs. This thesis he tried by demonstrating that all peoples believed in ghosts like vampires and werewolves or werewolf -like creatures to substantiate.
Works (selection)
- The Amur region and its importance: Travel in parts of Mongolia, the neighboring regions of Eastern Siberia, on the Amur and its tributaries. Leipzig 1867 ( digitized from the holdings of the Institute of East and Southeast European Studies ).
- Wendische hiking trials. For customer Lusatia and Sorbian Apply. Stuttgart 1874.
- History of the Corps Lusatia to Leipzig in 1807. Till 1877 extract from the annals of the Corps, Leipzig 1877.
- Ethnographic parallels and comparisons. Stuttgart 1878.
- To Folklore of the Jews. Bielefeld and Leipzig, 1881.
- Andree General Hand Atlas. Leipzig 1881-1937 (last, 9th edition ).
- The tide Tell considered ethnographic. Braunschweig 1891.
- Andree - Putzger high school and junior high school atlas. 7th edition Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld [ua ] 1893 ( digitized )
- History of the Corps Lusatia to Leipzig from 1807 to 1898. Leipzig 1898.
- Brunswick folklore. Braunschweig 1901.
- Andree - Schill 's Berlin school atlas. 15th edition Stubenrauch, Berlin 1915 ( digitized )