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KARL, a German geographer; born in Quedlinburg, Prussia, August 7, 1779; studied at Halle, became a private tutor in 1798, and in 1819 succeeded Schlosser as Professor of History at the Frankfort Gymnasium. He then published an "Introduction to the History of European Nations Before Herodotus," 1820; and in the same year became Professor extraordinary of Geography at the University of Berlin, where he remained till his death. His great work is "Geography in Its Relations to Nature and History," the two first volumes of which appeared in 1817-1818, but it ultimately comprised upward of 20 volumes. He wrote several other geographical works, and contributed extensively to the journals of the Berlin Geographical Society. He died in Berlin, Sept. 28, 1859.
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