Carl Hiekisch

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German ethnologist and geographer

Places

Germany

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Ethnologist Geographer

Work field

Science Social science

Gender

Male

Birth

15 March 1840 People who share this birthday

Place of birth

Tallinn

Star sign

Pisces People who share this birthday

Death

20 December 1901 People who died on this day

Place of death

Tallinn

Age

61 years

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Biography

Carl Wilhelm Hiekisch (15 May [O.S. 3 May] 1840 – 20 December [O.S. 7 December] 1901) was a Baltic German geographer.

Life and work

Carl Hiekisch was born in Tallinn and studied in Saint Petersburg and Tartu. In 1882, he received his doctoral degree in geography from Tartu University. From 1867 until 1900 he worked as a teacher in Saint Petersburg, teaching first German but later geography. He travelled widely in Scandinavia, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, the Caribbean and South America, and published ethnographic and geographical works.

Selected works

Noch einmal die Streitfrage über das Wrangell-Land (1883)
Das System des Urals : eine orographische Darstellung des europäisch-asiatischen Grenzgebirges (1883)
Die Tungusen : eine ethnologische Monographie (1879)

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