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Jan 29, 1833 Kassel, Hesse, Germany Died on 19 Feb 1919 (aged 86)
German geographer
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About Georg Gerland
- 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.
