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Arved Carl Ludwig von Schultz (14 November 1883 at Rinkules muiža,
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, now
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– 13 December 1967 in
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at
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) was a
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geographer.


Life

Arved von Schultz was born in
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to landowner Erich von Schultz (1856–1932), who in 1892 was the inspector of goods in the city of
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, and his wife Valerie of Moczulski.Arved von Schultz. “Der materielle Kulturbesitz der Pamirtadschik.” Pamirtadschik, 1914 During his holidays from 1901 to 1904 Schultz led study tours in the
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and the Russian Central Asia. Schultz attended the German Eltz'sche Privatgymnasium in
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and in 1904 passed his exams at Alexander High School. Beginning in 1904 he studied in
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and
Dorpat Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after Tallinn. Tartu has a population of 97,759 (as of 2024). It is southeast of Tallinn and 245 kilometres (152 miles) northeast of Riga, Latvia. Tartu lies on the Emajõgi river, which connects the ...
and in 1906 Schultz enrolled at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University (now
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) in Berlin. His studied were interrupted in 1905 due to riots in
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and he spent half a year traveling through Central Asia. After returning from this trip, Schultz attended the
University of Giessen University of Giessen, official name Justus Liebig University Giessen (), is a large public research university in Giessen, Hesse, Germany. It is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the German-speaking world. It is named afte ...
, where he studied geography under
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. After another trip in 1909 to the
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, Schultz received his
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in 1914 at Giessen. His dissertation was on Pamir
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. In 1918 while working as a war geographer, Schultz published an atlas of
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. After the
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he became a lecturer of geography at the
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. In 1923 he became the successor of Prof. Friedrichsen at Albertus University in
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.R.. Albinus:'' Konigsberg'' lexicon. Würzburg 2002, Schultz took long trips to Asia and Russia was considered one of the top German geographers of his time. He was a board member of the committee. Schultz married Hella Fanny Gertrude Suhr (born 24 April 1893 Grünfelde; died 2 September 1952 in
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) on 4 April 1914 at Green Field at
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in
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List of publications

*''Vorläufiger Bericht über meine Pamirexpedition 1909,''in A. Petermann's Mittheilungen aus Justus Perthes’ Geographischer Anstalt 56, 1910. pp. 140–141. * ''Volks- und wirtschaftliche Studien im Pamir,'' in A. Petermann's Mittheilungen aus Justus Perthes’ Geographischer Anstalt 56, 1910. pp. 250–254. *''Zur Kenntnis der arischen Bevölkerung des Pamir,'' in Orientalisches Archiv II, 1911–12. pp. 23–29. * ''Bericht über den bisherigen Verlauf meiner Pamirexpedition 1911/12,'' in A. Petermann's Mittheilungen aus Justus Perthes’ Geographischer Anstalt 58, 1912. 190–193, 261–265.
''Die Pamirtadschik : auf Grund einer mit Unterstützung des Museums für Volkerkunde zu Giessen in den Jahren 1911/12 ausgeführten Reise in den Pamir (Zentralasien)''
Giessen: A. Töpelmann, 1914
Der materielle Kulturbesitz der Pamirtadschik
1914. * ''Landeskundliche Forschungen im Pamir.'' Hamburg. 1916. (Abhandlungen des Hamburger Kolonialinstituts 33). *
Die natürlichen Landschaften von Russisch-Turkestan
''
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: L. Friederichsen, 1920. *''Die natürlichen Landschaften von Russisch-Turkestan,'' Geographical Review 1922 *''Sibirien,'' 1923 *''Aride Einebnung im Pamir,'' 1926 *''Das Ussuri-Land,'' 1930 *mit K. Bouterwek, H. Anger, G. Wegener, H. Rosinski: ''Nordasien, Zentral- und Ostasien in Natur, Kultur und Wirtschaft,'' Handbuch der Geographischen Wissenschaft 1937 *''Europäisches Rußland,'' 1937 *''Der Erdteil Asien,'' Stuttgart 1950


References


External links


The literature of Arved von Schultz
in the catalog of the
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Schultz, Arved 1883 births 1967 deaths Scientists from Riga Academic staff of the University of Hamburg University of Königsberg Central Asian studies scholars People of Baltic German descent 20th-century German geographers Humboldt University of Berlin alumni