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May 09, 1861 Halle (Saale), Saxony Anhalt, Germany Died on 13 Feb 1940 (aged 78)
German geographer
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About Wilhelm Ule
- Wilhelm Ule, sometimes referred to as Willi Ule (9 May 1861 in Halle an der Saale – 13 February 1940) was a German geographer and limnologist.
- He was the son of science writer Otto Eduard Vincenz Ule (1820-1876). He studied mathematics and geography in Berlin and Halle, where he graduated in 1888 with a dissertation on the lakes of Mansfeld, Die Mansfelder Seen.
- The following year he obtained his habilitation with a study on the depth ratios of Masurian lakes.
- In 1889 he also became managing director of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
- In 1907 he became an associate professor at the University of Rostock, where in 1919 he was appointed full professor.
- He was editor of the Geographischen Arbeite and the Mitteilungen der geographischen Gesellschaft zu Rostock (Releases of the Geographical Society of Rostock).
- Ule is sometimes referred to as "the founder of geography in Mecklenburg".With Swiss scientist François-Alphonse Forel (1841-1912), he was co-creator of the "Forel-Ule scale", a method used for obtaining an approximate measurement of surface water color.
