- Alfred Philippson
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name = Alfred Philippson
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birth_date =January 1 ,1864
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death_date =January 30 ,1953
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occupation =geologist and geographer
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January 1 ,1864 –January 30 ,1953 ) was a Germangeologist and geographer.He was born atBonn , son ofLudwig Philippson . He received his education at the gymnasium anduniversity of his native town and at theUniversity of Leipzig (Ph.D. 1886). In 1892 he became "Privatdozent " at Bonn, was appointedassistant professor seven years later, and in 1904 he was called toBern as professor ofgeography . Having made voyages throughGreece ,Turkey , andAsia Minor , he published: "Studien über Wasserscheiden," Berlin, 1886; "Der Peloponnes," ib. 1892; "Europa" (with Neumann), Leipzig, 1894; "Thessalien und Epirus," Berlin, 1897; "Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Griechischen Inselwelt," Gotha, 1901; "Das Mittelmeergebiet," Leipzig, 1904. He also published essays in the technical journals.Since 1887 Philippson undertook, on a commission from the Berlin
Akademie der Wissenschaften , an annual journey toAsia Minor for the purpose of geological investigation. His chief object in these excursions was to study, on a geological basis, the phenomena of theearth 's surface both in their interrelationship and in their influence on the human race.Under the Nazis, he was sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp (1942-45), where he wrote a memoir on his scholarly activity (Wie ich zum Geographen wurde, partly published in 1996). He survived the war, resuming work on his multi-volume essay on the Greek landscapes (with E. Kirsten; posthumously published and continued by Kirsten).
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*JewishEncyclopedia
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