Georg Hartmann (geographer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Geographer (1865-1946)
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Place of Birth: Dresden, Saxony, Germany
About Georg Hartmann (geographer)
- Georg Hartmann (4 August 1865 – 12 July 1946) was a German geographer working in German South West Africa.
- He was born in Dresden and educated at the technical school of his native city and at Leipzig, where he studied mathematics, physics, and geography (doctorate 1889).
- From 1893 to 1908 he traveled throughout German South West Africa and southern Angola.
- He worked as a director for the Otavi Mining and Railway Company and was co-founder of the town Grootfontein in Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia.In 1908 he returned to Germany, settling in the village of Rathstock, near Alt Tucheband.
- He gave lectures, and authored papers on history, colonial politics and sociology.Hartmann's mountain zebra (Equus zebra hartmannae Matschie, 1898) is named in his honor.
- It is a subspecies of the mountain zebra native to south-western Angola, Namibia and South Africa.
- Hartmann Valley in the Kaokoveld is also named after him. Hartmann died at Grammersdorf in Schleswig-Holstein.
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