Carl Hiekisch
Carl Wilhelm Hiekisch was a Baltic German geographer working in the Russian Empire.Carl Hiekisch was born in Reval and studied in Saint Petersburg and Dorpat. In 1882, he received his doctoral degree in geography from the Imperial University of Dorpat. From 1867 until 1900 he worked as a teacher in Saint Petersburg, teaching first German but later geography. He travelled widely in Scandinavia, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, the Caribbean and South America, and published ethnographic and geographical works.Selected works
- Noch einmal die Streitfrage über das Wrangell-Land
- Das System des Urals : eine orographische Darstellung des europäisch-asiatischen Grenzgebirges
- Die Tungusen : eine ethnologische Monographie
