Carl Ritter: An Address To The American Geographical And Statistical Society - Softcover

Arnold Henry Guyot

Softcover

ISBN 10: 037184603X ISBN 13: 9780371846032

Publisher: HardPress

Synopsis

Carl Ritter: An Address To The American Geographical And Statistical Society — Arnold Henry Guyot. This speech, delivered February 16, 1860, honors the life and work of Carl Ritter, the German geographer renowned for the Erdkunde and his ambitious synthesis of geography as a living organism linking nature and human history. Guyot recounts Ritter’s modest, serene life, his early education at Schnepfenthal, his studies at Halle and Frankfurt, and the years of travel and teaching that culminated in Berlin, where Ritter produced the twelve-volume General Geography. The address explains Ritter’s method—an organic, comparative geography that treats continents as integrated wholes, each with a central highland, terraces, and peninsular appendages—and his goal to connect geography with history, climate, biology, and human development. It stresses Ritter’s influence on geographical pedagogy, the reform of geography in German schools, and the collaboration with Humboldt, whose empirical laws Guyot praises as the foundation for Ritter’s system. The address also offers intimate portraits of Ritter’s character—his generosity, intellectual integrity, Christian faith—and his enduring legacy as a founder of the modern science of the globe.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 037184603X
• ISBN 13: 9780371846032
• Binding: Paperback