Carl Ritter

I want write about Karl Ritter. He was born in Quedlinburg at 1779. He was a German geographer who discovered the ultraviolet rays in 1801 and is considered along with Humboldt as one of the main collabolators of the modern geography. He founded the Berlin Society for Geography  and was fundamental in the development of the emerging geography compared. In 1819 he became professor of history at Frankfurt, and in 1820 he received a teaching appointment in history at the University of Berlin. Ritter received his doctorate there in 1821. His essential work is “The earth sciences in relation to the nature and history”.It consists of nineteen volumes that performs a complete geographical description of Africa and Asia.I like him because he explained the existing relations between the physical and human life, focusing on the social and historical processes more than the physical world phenomena. He said that “The earth is a cosmic individual with a particular organization, an ens sui generis with a progressive development: the exploration of this individuality of the earth is the task of geography".He died in 1859 at Berlín, when he was eighty years old.