People from Quedlinburg - Johann Gerhard, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Carl Ritter, Dagmar Hase, Gustav Schwalbe, Johannes Andreas Quenstedt (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Johann Gerhard, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Carl Ritter, Dagmar Hase, Gustav Schwalbe, Johannes Andreas Quenstedt, Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben, Petra Schersing, Dorothea Erxleben, Petrik Sander, Karl Schrder Ii, Hermann Viets, Oxana Verevka, Leander Haumann, Christoph Gottfried Andreas Giebel, Johann Christian Friedrich Tuch. Excerpt: Carl Ritter (August 7, 1779 September 28, 1859) was a German geographer. Along with Alexander von Humboldt, he is considered one of the founders of modern geography . From 1825 until his death, he occupied the first chair in geography at the University of Berlin . Biography Sketch of Carl Ritter Ritter was born in Quedlinburg, one of the six children of a well-respected 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 ). This experience would influence Ritter throughout his life, as he retained an interest in new educational modes, including those of. Indeed, much of Ritter's writing was based on Pestalozzi's three stages in teaching: the acquisition of the material, the general comparison of material, and the establishment of a general system. After completion of his schooling, Ritter was introduced to Bethmann Hollweg, a banker in Frankfurt . It was arranged that Ritter should become tutor to Hollweg's children, but that in the meantime he should attend the University of Halle at his patron's expense. His duties as tutor began in 1798 and continued for fifteen years. The years 1814-1819, which he spent at Gttingen in order still to watch over his pupils, were those in which he began to exclusively study geography. It was the...