Friedrich August Ukert

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Friedrich August Ukert (28 October 1780 – 18 May 1851) was a German history scholar, teacher and humanitarian. He was born in Eutin, Bishopric of Lübeck.

He helped Arnold Heeren to found the historical collection, Geschichte der Europaischen Staaten (History of the States of Europe).

The crater Ukert on the Moon is named after him.

Bibliography

F. A. Ukert, How the Ancients Determined Distances, 1813.
F. A. Ukert, Homer's Geography, 1815.
F. Beaufort and F. A. Ukert, Reise durch Klein-Asien, Armenien und Kurdistan, Weimar, 1821.
F. A. Ukert, Geographie der Griechen und Römer von den frühesten Zeiten bis auf Ptolemäus, (Geography of the Greeks and Romans), Weimar, 1816–1846, 3 volumes).
F. A. Ukert and Friedrich Jacobs, Beiträge zur ältern Literatur oder Merkwürdigkeiten der herzöglichen Bibliothek zu Gotha, Leipzig, 1835-38.
F. A. Ukert, Über Dämonen, Heroen und Genien (Demons, Heroes, and Genii), Leipzig, 1850.

References

Warner, Charles Dudley (1898). Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern. XLIII. New York: The International Society.

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Nomenclator Philogorum (German)

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 67238932 LCCN: n85312499 ISNI: 0000 0000 8147 4574 GND: 117280607

Persondata
Name	Ukert, Friedrich August
Alternative names
Short description	German historian
Date of birth	28 October 1780
Place of birth
Date of death	18 May 1851
Place of death

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