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- Born:
- Feb. 26, 1866, Königsberg, Prussia [now Kaliningrad, Russia]
- Died:
- June 26, 1958, Bremen, W.Ger. [now in Germany] (aged 92)
- Subjects Of Study:
- Africa
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Siegfried Passarge
German geographer and geomorphologist
Siegfried Passarge (born Feb. 26, 1866, Königsberg, Prussia [now Kaliningrad, Russia]—died June 26, 1958, Bremen, W.Ger. [now in Germany]) was a geographer and geomorphologist known for his studies of southern Africa.
A professor at Breslau and Hamburg universities (1908–35), Passarge studied the climate and physical morphology of Africa. He wrote Die Kalahari (1904), Südafrika (1908), Physiologische Morphologie (1912), Die Grundlagen der Landschaftskunde, 3 vol. (1919–20), Vergleichende Landschaftskunde, 4 vol. (1921–30), Geographische Völkerkunde (1933), and Die Deutsch Landschaft (1936).
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