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Ferdinand Paul Wilhelm von Richthofen
(1833–1905)
 

Baron; German nobleman, traveller, geographer, and scientist; international authority on geography and geology of China; worked for the U. S. government, discovering gold fields in California (1862-1868). Being a popular professor in several leading German universities (1879-1905), as well as a writer, he coined the term "Silk Road" and standardized the practices of chorography and chorology; also Ferdinand or Baron von Richthofen.

Ferdinand Paul Wilhelm von Richthofen

Works

  • “Die Kalkalpen von Voralberg und Nordtirol” in Jahrbuch der Geologischen Reichsanstalt (1859–1861)
  • “Die Metallproduktion Kaliforniens” in Petermann's Mitteilungen (1865)
  • Comstock Lode: Its Character and the Probable Mode of Its Continuance in Depth (1866)
  • Principles of the Natural System of Volcanic Rocks (1867)
  • Letters to the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce (1869–72)
  • China: Ergebnisse eigner Reisen und Darauf Gegründeter Studien (1877–1885)
  • Aufgaben und Methoden der Heutigen Geographie (1883)
  • Führer für Forschungsreisende (1886)
  • Triebkräfte und Richtungen der Erdkunde in Neunzehnten Jahrhundert (1903)

Works about Richthofen


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