Karl Andree was a German

Germany

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 geographer

Geographer

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Andree was born in Braunschweig

Braunschweig

Braunschweig , is a city of 247,400 people, located in the federal-state of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located north of the Harz mountains at the farthest navigable point of the Oker river, which connects to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser....

. He was educated at Jena, Göttingen, and Berlin. After having been implicated in a students' political agitation he became a journalist, and in 1851 founded the newspaper Bremer Handelsblatt. From 1855, however, he devoted himself entirely to geography and ethnography

Ethnography

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, working successively at Leipzig

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 and at Dresden

Dresden

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. In 1862 he founded the important geographical periodical Globus

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. He died at Wildungen. His son Richard Andree

Richard Andree

Richard Andree was, like his father Karl Andree, a German geographer noted for devoting himself especially to ethnography...

followed in his father's career.

Works

• Nordamerika in geographischen und geschichtlichen Umrissen (Brunswick, 1854)
• Buenos Ayres und die argentinische Republik (Leipzig, 1856)
• Geographische Wanderungen (Dresden, 1859)
• Geographie des Welthandels (Stuttgart, 1867-1872)