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About Prof. Dr. Alfred Philippson
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Source - 1st of march 2017: http://www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de/persoenlichkeiten/P/Seiten/...
ALFRED PHILIPPSON (1864–1953), the youngest son of Ludwig, born at Bonn, became a geographer and geologist. As a student of Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833–1905), the founder of modern geography, he followed his teacher from Bonn to Leipzig University, where he took his doctor's degree (Studien ueber Wasserscheiden) in 1886, aged 22. In the course of a distinguished career he specialized in the east Mediterranean region, particularly Greece and Asia Minor. In 1891, he was appointed university lecturer at Bonn, 1899 assistant professor. Since a full professorship was denied to him as a Jew, he accepted a chair at Basel University in 1904, finally becoming head of the department of geography. In 1906, he was called back to Halle, and in 1911 to Bonn. In 1929, upon his retirement, his pupils and admirers published a volume of geographical essays in his honor. Several of his many books have become classics of regional geography, among them: Der Peloponnes (1892), Zur Morphologie des rheinischen Schiefergebirges (1903), Das Mittelmeergebiet (1904, 19224), Europa (1905, 19283), Grundzüge der allgemeinen Geographie (1921/24, 1930/33), Das fernste Italien (1925), and Das byzantinische Reich als geographische Erscheinung (1939). In 1933, he was awarded the Great Gold Richthofen Medal by the German Geographical Society. He continued to play a leading role in German geographical research until he was banned from the university and all other scientific bodies by the Nazi regime. In 1942, at the age of 78, he was deported to *Theresienstadt but managed to survive. In 1945, despite terrible suffering, he returned to his scientific activities, which he continued to his death in Bonn, aged 89. In this last period he produced two of his best works: Die Stadt Bonn. Ihre Lage und raeumliche Entwicklung (1947, 195112), an outstanding work on urban geography, and Die griechischen Landschaften (1950–59)
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Prof. Dr. Alfred Philippson's Timeline
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January 1, 1864
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Bonn, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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| 1893 |
January 17, 1893
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Bonn, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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| 1894 |
September 7, 1894
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Bonn, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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| 1896 |
November 17, 1896
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Bonn, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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| 1899 |
August 20, 1899
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Bonn, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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| 1953 |
January 30, 1953
Age 89
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Bonn, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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