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See also:RICHTHOFEN, See also:FERDINAND, See also:BARON VON (1833-1905) , See also:German geographer and traveller, was See also:born near See also:Karlsruhe, See also:Silesia, on the 5th of May 1833. He was educated at See also:Breslau and See also:Berlin, and in 1856 carried out See also:geological investigations in the See also:Tirol, subsequently extending them to Transylvania. In 1859 he accompanied as geologist the Prussian See also:diplomatic See also:mission to the Far See also:East under See also:Count von Eulenburg, and visited See also:Ceylon, See also:Japan, See also:Formosa, the Philippines and See also:Java, subsequently making an overland See also:journey from See also:Bangkok to See also:Moulmein and reaching See also:Calcutta in 1862. No important See also:work resulted from these travels, for much of Richthofen's records and collections was lost. See also:China was at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time inaccessible owing to the Taiping See also:rebellion, but Richthofen was impressed with the desirability of exploring it, and after a visit to See also:California, where he remained till 1868, he returned to the East, In a remarkable See also:series of seven journeys he penetrated into almost every See also:part of the See also:Chinese See also:Empire. He returned See also:home in 1872, and a work comprising three large volumes and an See also:atlas, which, however, did not See also:cover the entire See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field or See also:complete the author's See also:plan,, appeared at Berlin in 1877-85 under the See also:title of China; Ergebnisse eigner Reisen and darauf gegriindeter Studien. In this See also:standard work the author deals not only with See also:geology but with every subject necessary to a See also:general See also:geographical See also:treatise. Notably he paid See also:close See also:attention to the economic resources of the See also:country he traversed; he wrote a valuable series of letters to the See also:Shanghai Chamber of See also:Commerce, and first See also:drew attention to the importance of the coalfields of Shantung, and of Kiaochow as a See also:port. In 1875 Richthofen was elected See also:professor of geology at See also:Bonn, but being fully occupied with his work in China he did not take up professorial duties till 1879; in 1883 ,he became professor of See also:geography at See also:Leipzig, and in 1886 was chosen to the same See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office at Berlin, and held it till his See also:death. His lectures attracted numerous students who subsequently became eminent in geographical work, and in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to keep in See also:touch with them he established his weekly geographical " colloquium." Of his written See also:works; besides that on China, there may be mentioned " See also:Die Kalkalpen von Voralberg and Nordtirol" in Jahrbuch der geologischen Reichsanstalt (1859-1861); " Die Metallproduktion Kaliforniens " in See also:Petermann Mitteilungen (1865); Natural See also:System of Volcanic Rocks (See also:San' Francisco, 1867); Aufgaben and Methoden der heutigen Geographie (an address delivered at Leipzig, 1883) ; Fiihrer f 'See also:air Forschungsreisende (Berlin, 1886); Triebkrafte and Richtungen der Erdkunde in neunzehnten Jahrhundert (address on his See also:election as See also:rector, Berlin, 1903). He was for many years See also:president of the German Geographical Society, and he founded the Berlin Hydrographical See also:Institute. He died on the 16th of See also:October 1905.
End of Article: RICHTHOFEN, FERDINAND, BARON VON (1833-1905)
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