Friedrich Wilhelm Sievers , or Sievers ( Friedrich Wilhelm Sievers) ; December 3, 1860 , Hamburg - June 11, 1921 , Giessen - German geographer , traveler, professor of geography at the University of Giessen .
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 Wilhelm Sievers (1860-1921), Colombia 1886 | |
| Date of Birth | December 3, 1860 |
| Place of Birth | Hamburg |
| Date of death | June 11, 1921 (60 years) |
| Place of death | Giessen |
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| Scientific field | geography |
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The author of the names of a number of botanical taxa . In the botanical ( binary ) nomenclature, these names are complemented by the abbreviation “ W.Siev. " . Personal page on IPNI website |
In 1891, he was a professor at the University of Würzburg , and from 1903 he was a university at the University J. Güsien
Made in 1884 - 1886 . travel to Venezuela and Colombia , studied the Northwest and Caribbean Andes. In 1891 - 1893 again traveled to Venezuela. In 1909 , he visited Peru and Ecuador . On each of the three trips Zivers published a book.
From 1891, under the general editorship of Sievers, the 6-volume series “World Geography” (“ German. Allgemeine Länderkunde ”), published by the Bibliographic Institute in Leipzig (Russian translation 1902-08), began to be published. For the 2nd edition of this series, Zievers wrote Asia (1904, Russian translation, 1908), South and Central America (1903, Russian translation, 1908).
Works
- Travel to Sierra Nevada and to Santa Marta ( German: Reise in der Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta , 1888 );
- "Venezuela" ( it. "Venezuela" , 1888 ).
- "Africa" ( it. "Afrika" , 1891 );
- "Asia" ( it. "Asien" , 1892 , 1904 ).
Literature
- Magidovich I.P. The History of Discovery and Research in Central and South America, M., 1965.
- Sievers, Wilhelm // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extra). - SPb. , 1890-1907.