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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.
Erdkunde publishes scientific articles covering the whole range of physical geography and human geography. The journal offers state of the art reports on recent trends and developments in specific fields of geography and comprehensive and critical reviews of new geographical publications.
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).
The Fliegende Blätter ("Flying Leaves"; also translated as "Flying Pages" or "Loose Sheets") [1] was a German weekly [2] humor and satire magazine appearing between 1845 and 1944 in Munich. Many of the illustrations were by well-known artists such as Wilhelm Busch , Count Franz Pocci , Hermann Vogel , Carl Spitzweg , Julius Klinger , Edmund ...
[1] Widely read by academics and laymen, Cosmos applies the ancient Greek view of the orderliness of the cosmos (the harmony of the universe) to the Earth, suggesting that universal laws apply as well to the apparent chaos of the terrestrial world and that contemplation of nature can yield an awareness of its wholeness and coherence. Humboldt ...
Die Weißen Blätter were published from 1913 to 1915 by Erik Ernst-Schwabach in Leipzig in the Verlag der weißen Bücher.In 1915 René Schickele took over. From 1916 to 1917 they were printed by the Verlag Rascher in Zurich, in 1918 in the Verlag der Weißen Blätter in Bern, from 1919 to 1920 Paul Cassirer published the magazine in Berlin.
Die junge Frau, die ich gestern zum Kaffee eingeladen habe, ist die Verlobte meines Cousins. The conjugated verb is placed at the end of German relative clauses. This was the preferable use in Latin sentences as well as in Old High German even for main clauses, and remains intact for subclauses, whereas in main clauses the verb takes the second ...
Coconut the Little Dragon 2: Into the Jungle (German: Der kleine Drache Kokosnuss - Auf in den Dschungel!; [1] also released worldwide as A Dragon's Tale and A Dragon's Adventure in the UK [5]) is a 2018 German musical adventure comedy film directed by Anthony Power and written by Mark Slater and Gabriele Walther (who also acted as producer).