Otto Eduard Vincenz Ule (22 January 1820, in Lossow – 7 August 1876, in

Halle an der Saale Halle (Saale), or simply Halle (), is the second largest city of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is the sixth-most populous city in the area of former East Germany after (East) Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, Chemnitz and Magdeburg as well as t ...

) was a German writer, known for his popularization of natural sciences, and liberal politician. He was the father of botanist

Ernst Heinrich Georg Ule Ernst Heinrich Georg Ule (12 March 1854 – 15 July 1915) was a German botanist and plant collector. Biography He was born on 12 March 1854 in Halle an der Saale to science writer Otto Eduard Vincenz Ule (1820–1876). His brother was geograp ...

(1854–1915) and geographer Wilhelm Ule (1861–1940). From 1840 he studied at the

University of Halle Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (), also referred to as MLU, is a public research university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg. It is the largest and oldest university in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. MLU offers German and i ...

, first theology, and later mathematics and natural sciences, of which, he was a pupil of

Hermann Burmeister Karl Hermann Konrad Burmeister (also known as Carlos Germán Conrado Burmeister) (15 January 1807 – 2 May 1892) was a German Argentine zoologist, entomologist, herpetologist, botany, botanist, and coleopterologist. He served as a professor at ...

. He then continued his education at the

University of Berlin The Humboldt University of Berlin (, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany. The university was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humbol ...

as a student of

Heinrich Wilhelm Dove Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (6 October 1803 – 4 April 1879) was a Prussian physicist and meteorologist. Early years Dove was born in Liegnitz in the Kingdom of Prussia. Dove studied history, philosophy, and the natural sciences at the University o ...

, and in 1845 received his master's degree from Halle. He then taught classes in natural sciences in

Frankfurt an der Oder Frankfurt (Oder), also known as Frankfurt an der Oder (, ; Marchian dialects, Central Marchian: ''Frankfort an de Oder,'' ) is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Brandenburg after Potsdam, Cottbus and Brandenburg an der Havel. With a ...

(from 1846) and at the agricultural college in Quetz, near Halle (1848–51). Afterwards, he devoted himself to private research and worked as a freelance writer. With Karl Johann August Müller and

Emil Adolf Rossmässler Emil Adolf Rossmässler (''Emil Adolf Roßmäßler'', ''Emil Adolph Roßmäßler'') (March 3, 1806 in Leipzig – April 8, 1867 in Leipzig) was a German biologist. With Otto Eduard Vincenz Ule and Karl Johann August Müller, he was co-founder of ...

, he was co-founder of the journal ''Die Natur'' in 1852,ADB:Ule, Otto Eduard Vincent
In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, S. 180 f. which became the flagship journal of popular science in Germany. He was politically active throughout his career — in the 1860s he founded an independent progress party for Halle and the

Saalekreis Saalekreis is a district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The district seat is Merseburg. Its area is . It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the districts Kyffhäuserkreis (Thuringia), Mansfeld-Südharz, Salzlandkreis, Anhalt-Bitterfeld, ...

. While serving as commandant of a volunteer fire-brigade, he was seriously injured by falling debris and died the following day.

Selected works

* ''Untersuchung über den Raum und die Raumtheorien des Aristoteles und Kant'', 1850 – Study of space and the space theories of

Aristotle Aristotle (; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosophy, Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, a ...

and

Kant Immanuel Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, et ...

. * ''Das Weltall. Beschreibung und Geschichte des Kosmos im Entwicklungskampfe der Natur'' (2 volumes, 1850) – The universe; description and history of the cosmos in the developing struggle of nature. * ''Die Natur. Ihre Kräfte, Gesetze und Erscheinungen im Geiste kosmischer Anschauung'', 1851 – Nature, its forces, laws and phenomena in the spirit of cosmic intuition. * ''Die Wunder der Sternenwelt'', 1860; The wonders of the starry world. * ''Die neuesten Entdeckungen in Afrika, Australien, und der arktischen Polarwelt mit besonderer Rucksicht auf die Natur- und Kulturverhältnisse der entdeckten Länder'', 1861; The latest discoveries in Africa, Australia and the Arctic polar world. * ''Dr. Otto Ule’s ausgewählte kleine naturwissenschaftliche Schriften'' (4 volumes, 1864–67) – Ule's selected smaller scientific writings. * ''Alexander von Humboldt'', 1869. On

Alexander von Humboldt Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, natural history, naturalist, List of explorers, explorer, and proponent of Romanticism, Romantic philosophy and Romanticism ...

. * ''Die Erde und die Erscheinungen ihrer Oberfläche, eine physische Erdbeschreibung'' (with

Élisée Reclus Jacques Élisée Reclus (; 15 March 18304 July 1905) was a French geographer, writer and anarchist. He produced his 19-volume masterwork, ''La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes'' ("Universal Geography"), over a period of ...

, 1871; 2nd edition by Wilhelm Ule, 1892); The earth and the phenomena of its surface.HathiTrust Digital Library
(published works)

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