Alfred Kirchhoff
Alfred Kirchhoff was a German geographer and naturalist.
Biography
He was educated at Jena and Bonn, and for several years was an instructor at schools in Mülheim an der Ruhr and Erfurt. From 1871 to 1873 he was a lecturer on geography at the Kriegsakademie of Berlin, and in the latter year was appointed to the chair of geography in the University of Halle. He was an editor of the .He was elected member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1878 and of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg in 1888.
Selected writings
- Schulbotanik - School botany.
- Die Südseeinseln und der Südseehandel, 1880 - The South Sea islands and trade.
- Schulgeographie, 1882 - School geography.
- Allgemeine Erdkunde: Pflanzen- und Tierverbreitung, with Julius von Hann and Eduard Bruckner - General geography; plant and animal distribution.
- Mensch und Erde; Skizzen von den Wechselbeziehungen zwischen beiden ; later translated into English as "Man and earth; the reciprocal relations and influences of man and his environment"; London, G. Routledge & sons, limited.
- Unser Wissen von der Erde. Allgemeine Erdkunde und Länderkunde, in collaboration with other scholars - Our knowledge of the Earth. General and regional geography.
- Volapük : easy method of acquiring the universal language.