Friedrich Ratzel

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Friedrich Ratzel was a German geographer and ethnographer, notable for first using the term Lebensraum in the sense that the National Socialists later would.Life Ratzel's father was the head of the household staff of the Grand Duke of Baden. Friedrich attended high school in Karlsruhe for six years before being apprenticed at age 15 to apothecaries. In 1863, he went to Rapperswil on the Lake of Zurich, Switzerland, where he began to study the classics. After a further year as an apothecary at Moers near Krefeld in the Ruhr area , he spent a short time at the high school in Karlsruhe and became a student of zoology at the universities of Heidelberg, Jena and Berlin, finishing in 1868. He studied zoology in 1869, publishing Sein und Werden der organischen Welt on Darwin.

Published Works

• Studies in Political Areas. The Political Territory in Relation to Earth and Continent
• Studies in Political Areas. II. Intellectual, Political, and Economic Effects of Large Areas
• La Corse [Étude anthropogéographique]
• Die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. Von Friedrich Ratzel.
• Studies in Political Areas. III. The Small Political Area
• Anthropo-Geographie.
• Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika. Von Friedrich Ratzel.
• Ratzel's 'Political Geography'
• Günther, S.: Ziele, Richtpunkte und Methode der modernen Völkerkunde
• Prof. Ratzel's Comparative Geography
The History of Mankind
The History of Mankind
The History of Mankind.
The History of Mankind.
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Schools

Heidelberg University

Public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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Technical University of Munich

Public research university in Germany

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Humboldt University of Berlin

Public research university in Berlin, Germany

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Leipzig University

University in Leipzig, Germany

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University of Jena

University located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany

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