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However, since preparations for the new journal were already well advanced in Bonn, the plan was pursued and the first issue of the journal "Erdkunde Archiv für Wissenschaftliche Geographie" was published in 1947. [3] The title of the journal emerged from the original plan to continue the "Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin".
Karl Helbig was born in Hildesheim on March 18, 1903, the son of the engineer Otto Helbig and his wife Ida, née Manß. In 1912 he transferred from the preschool to the Realgymnasium there and passed the school-leaving examination in 1921.
The Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin (Berlin Geographical Society) was founded in 1828 and is the second oldest geographical society. It was founded by some of the foremost geographers of its time. The founder Carl Ritter and the founding member Alexander von Humboldt can also be considered the founders of modern scientific geography.
Carl Ritter was born in Quedlinburg, one of the six children of a doctor, F. W. Ritter.. Ritter's father died when he was two. At the age of five, he was enrolled in the Schnepfenthal Salzmann School, a school focused on the study of nature (apparently influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau's writings on children's education).
Malakozoologische Blätter was a German-language journal for malacology. It was published from 1854 to 1891 as a continuation of Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie (which was published 1844–1853). Karl Theodor Menke and Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer were joint co-editors-in-chief, until Menke's death in 1861 after which Pfeiffer became sole editor ...
The 3-inch/50-caliber gun (spoken "three-inch fifty-caliber") in United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun fired a projectile 3 inches (76 mm) in diameter, and the barrel was 50 calibers long (barrel length is 3 in × 50 = 150 in or 3.8 m).
Founded four years before the American magazine Weird Tales was initiated in March 1923, Der Orchideengarten is considered to be the first fantasy magazine. [2] Also described as largely 'supernatural horror', it was edited by World War I correspondent and freelance writer Karl Hans Strobl [3] and Alfons von Czibulka, [4] published by Dreiländerverlag.
[3] [10] Emerson read Humboldt's work throughout his life, and for him, Cosmos capped Humboldt's role as a scientific revolutionary. [3] Edgar Allan Poe was also an admirer of Humboldt, even dedicating his last major work, Eureka: A Prose Poem, to Humboldt. [3] Humboldt's attempt to unify the sciences was a major inspiration for Poe's work. [3]