Georg Gerland, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Georg Gerland

German geographer

Date of Birth: 29-Jan-1833

Place of Birth: Kassel, Hesse, Germany

Date of Death: 19-Feb-1919

Profession: geographer, university teacher, anthropologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Georg Cornelius Karl Gerland (29 January 1833, in Kassel – 16 February 1919, in Strasbourg) was a German anthropologist and geophysicist. He studied classical philology, Germanistics and anthropology at the universities of Berlin and Marburg.
From 1856 to 1875 he successively worked as a gymnasium teacher in Kassel, Hanau, Magdeburg and Halle an der Saale, and in 1875 was named a professor of ethnology and geography at the University of Strasbourg.
In 1900 he became director of the Imperial Central Bureau for Earthquake Research in Strasbourg.