Carl Uhlig (1872-1938)
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- Name (English)
- Carl Uhlig
- Short name
- Carl Uhlig
- Year of birth
- 1872
- Year of death
- 1938
- Short Description
- "Carl Ludwig Gustav Uhlig (29 August 1872, in Heidelberg – 12 September 1938, in Tübingen) was a German geographer and meteorologist. He was the son of philologist Gustav Uhlig (1838–1914).
He studied natural sciences at the universities of Heidelberg, Freiburg, Göttingen and Berlin, receiving his doctorate in 1897 with the thesis Die Veränderungen der Volksdichte im nördlichen Baden 1852–1895. In Heidelberg, Uhlig joined the German student fraternity Leonensia. From 1900 to 1906 he worked as a meteorologist and geographer for the government of German East Africa, during which time, he carried out investigations of Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru (1901) as well as scientific studies of Lake Victoria (1904). In 1903 he visited Egypt and in 1906 he conducted research in Transvaal and Cape Colony." - (en.wikipedia.org 10.04.2020) - Entity Encoding
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