Authorised form of name | Ritter; Karl (1779 - 1859) |
Other forms of name | Carl |
Charles |
Dates | 1779 - 1859 |
Place of birth | Quedlinburg, Germany |
Date of birth | 07 August 1779 |
Place of death | Berlin |
Date of death | 28 September 1859 |
Research field | Geography |
Activity | Education: Schnapfeuthal Institution Career: Tutor to the Hollweg family (for 15 years); published 'Die Erdkunde im Verhaltniss sur Natur und zur Geschichte des Menschen' (1818); Professor of History, Frankfurt (1819); Extraordinarius in History, Berlin (1820)
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Membership category | Foreign Member |
Date of election | 30/03/1848 |
Relationships | Son of a doctor |
Source | Sources: Bulloch's Roll Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc 1859-1860 vol 10 pp xlii-xliii |
Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/56673426 |
Code | NA7575 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNo | Title | Date |
EC/1848/02 | Ritter, Karl: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
MM/21/33 | Copy of letter from Carl Ritter [to Francis Rawden Chesney] | 25 October 1850 |
MC/4/256 | Letter from Charles [Carl] Ritter, Berlin, to [Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Sabine, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society] | 6 August 1848 |
MC/4 | Volume 4 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1844-1850 |