Author:Ferdinand Paul Wilhelm von Richthofen

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Ferdinand Paul Wilhelm von Richthofen
(1833–1905)

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Baron; German nobleman, traveller, geographer, and scientist; international authority on geography and geology of China; worked for the U. S. government, discovering gold fields in California (1862-1868). Being a popular professor in several leading German universities (1879-1905), as well as a writer, he coined the term "Silk Road" and standardized the practices of chorography and chorology; also Ferdinand or Baron von Richthofen.

Works

“Die Kalkalpen von Voralberg und Nordtirol” in Jahrbuch der Geologischen Reichsanstalt (1859–1861)
“Die Metallproduktion Kaliforniens” in Petermann's Mitteilungen (1865)
Comstock Lode: Its Character and the Probable Mode of Its Continuance in Depth (1866)
Principles of the Natural System of Volcanic Rocks (1867)
Letters to the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce (1869–72)
China: Ergebnisse eigner Reisen und Darauf Gegründeter Studien (1877–1885)
Aufgaben und Methoden der Heutigen Geographie (1883)
Führer für Forschungsreisende (1886)
Triebkräfte und Richtungen der Erdkunde in Neunzehnten Jahrhundert (1903)

Works about Richthofen

"Richthofen, Ferdinand, Baron von," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Richthofen, Ferdinand, Baron von," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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