Ferdinand von Richthofen
German traveller and geographer, 1833-1905
"Baron Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen, better known in English as Baron von Richthofen, was a German traveller, geographer, and scientist. He is noted for coining the term ""Seidenstraße"" (""Silk Road"") in 1877. He also standardized the practices of chorography and chorology. From 1862 to 1868, he worked as a geologist in the United States, discovering goldfields in California. Following his travels through China he published his geographical, geological, economic, and ethnological findings in the 5-volume standard work ""China: Ergebnisse eigener Reisen und darauf gegründeter Studien"" (1877-1885). A mountain range in western China was named Richthofen Range (now Qilian Mountains) after him."
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Geograph und Geologe (1833-1905). Urkunde mit eigenh. U. Berlin. 29.04.1904. 530:480 mm. Gefaltet.
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Als Rektor der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin. Doktorurkunde "vir iuvenis ornatissimus" für den stud.phil. Jacobus Friedrichs Rhenanus. - Kleine Papierdurchbrüche im Mittelfalz.
Geograph und Geologe (1833-1905). Autograph letter signed ("vRichthofen"). Berlin. 06.01.1897. ½ S. auf Doppelblatt. 8vo.
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Agreement to a draft signed by Damer, Delbrück, and Diels. - Richthofen is noted for coining the terms "Seidenstraße" and "Seidenstraßen" = "Silk Road(s)" or "Silk Route(s)" in 1877. The Richthofen Range (aka the Qilian Mountains), a northern outlier of the Kunlun Mountains, forming the border between Qinghai and the Gansu provinces of northern China, were named after him.