Carl Ritter Net Worth

Carl Ritter was a renowned German geographer who, alongside Alexander von Humboldt, founded modern geographical science. He was heavily influenced by Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and Johann Gottfried von Herder, and was appointed as a Geography Professor at the University of Berlin in 1820. He believed in the harmony of man and nature, and conducted frequent fieldworks, observations and researches. His magnum opus, 'Die Erdkunde im Verhältniss zur Natur und zur Geschichte des Menschen', was intended as a world geographical study but was left incomplete at the time of his death. It consisted of over 20,000 pages in 19 volumes, with the first volume on Africa published in 1817. His ideas continued to influence geographical researches in Germany even after his death.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Co-founder of Modern Geography
Birth Day August 17, 2007
Birth Place Quedlinburg, Germany, German
Age 13 YEARS OLD
Died On September 28, 1859
Birth Sign Virgo

💰 Net worth

Carl Ritter, widely acknowledged as the Co-founder of Modern Geography in German, is projected to possess a net worth ranging between $100,000 and $1 million by 2024. His pioneering contributions to the field of geography have made him a prominent figure in academia. As a founding father of Modern Geography, Ritter has revolutionized our understanding of the Earth's physical and cultural features. From his meticulous research on spatial relationships to his invaluable insights into the connections between nature and human societies, Ritter's work has left an indelible impact on the discipline. It comes as no surprise that his groundbreaking contributions have led him to achieve substantial financial success.

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Famous Quotes:

"geography was a kind of physiology and comparative anatomy of the earth: rivers, mountains, glaciers, &c., were so many distinct organs, each with its own appropriate functions; and, as his physical frame is the basis of the man, determinative to a large extent of his life, so the structure of each country is a leading element in the historic progress of the nation."

Biography/Timeline

1798

After completion of his schooling, Ritter was introduced to Bethmann Hollweg, a banker in Frankfurt. It was arranged that Ritter should become tutor to Hollweg's children, but that in the meantime he should attend the University of Halle at his patron's expense. His duties as tutor began in 1798 and continued for fifteen years. The years 1814–1819, which he spent at Göttingen in order still to watch over his pupils, were those in which he began to exclusively study geography. It was there that he courted and married Lilli Kramer, from Duderstadt and that he wrote and published the first two volumes of his Erdkunde.

1816

The first volume of Die Erdkunde was completed in Berlin in 1816, and a part of it was published in the following year. The whole of the first volume did not appear until 1832, and the following volumes were issued from the press in rapid succession. Die Erdkunde was left incomplete at the time of Ritter's death, covering only Asia and Africa.

1819

In 1819 he became professor of history at Frankfurt, and in 1820 he received a teaching appointment in history at the University of Berlin. Ritter received his doctorate there in 1821, and was appointed professor extraordinarius in 1825. He also lectured at a nearby military college. He was particularly interested in the exploration of Africa and held constant contacts with British scholars and scientific circles like the Royal Geographical Society. He was one of the academic teachers of the Explorer Heinrich Barth, who traveled in Northern and Western Africa on behalf of the British government to negotiate treaties that were to stop the Trans-Saharan slave trade. Carl Ritter himself was a dedicated anti-slavery propagandist in Germany.

1822

In 1822 Ritter was elected to the Prussian Academy of Sciences, and in 1824 he became a corresponding member of the Société Asiatique de Paris. In 1828, he established the Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin (Berlin Geographical Society). He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1849. In 1856, he was appointed curator of the Royal Cartographic Institute of Prussia. He died in Berlin in 1859.

1861

Many of Ritter's writings were printed in the Monatsberichte of the Berlin Geographical Society, and in the Zeitschrift für allgemeine Erdkunde. His Geschichte der Erdkunde und der Entdeckungen (1861), Allgemeine Erdkunde (1862), and Europa (1863) were published posthumously. Some of his works have been translated into English by W. L. Gage: Comparative Geography (1865), and The Comparative Geography of Palestine and the Sinaitic Peninsula (1866)

1865

In 1865, a monument to Ritter was installed at the entrance to the Bruehl in Quedlinburg. The house where he was born, number 15 Steinbrücke, was torn down in 1955. There is an additional monument at the Mummental school honoring both Ritter and his Teacher Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths. The Ritter Range in California is named after him.

2019

Ritter's writings thus also had implications for political theory. His organic conception of the state could be abused to justify the pursuit of Lebensraum, even at the cost of another nation's existence, because conquest was seen as a biological necessity for a state’s growth. His ideas were adopted and transformed into an expansionist ideology by the German geostrategist Friedrich Ratzel. It is to be doubted, however, whether Carl Ritter can be held responsible for this interpretation, which was developed under the influence of Darwinism, which was to become a leading and popular ideology in Germany only after Ritter's death.