Carl Uhlig

Carl Ludwig Gustav Uhlig (29 August 1872, in Heidelberg – 12 September 1938, in Tübingen) was a German geographer and meteorologist.

He studied natural sciences at the universities of Heidelberg, Freiburg, Göttingen and Berlin, receiving his doctorate in 1897 with the thesis Die Veränderungen der Volksdichte im nördlichen Baden 1852–1895.

From 1900 to 1906 he worked as a meteorologist and geographer for the government of German East Africa, during which time, he carried out investigations of Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru (1901) as well as scientific studies of Lake Victoria (1904).

[1][2] From 1907 he taught classes on the geography of German East Africa at the Seminar for Oriental languages in Berlin.

In addition to his African studies, he also conducted geographical research in the United States, Palestine, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia.

Carl Uhlig as a member of student fraternity Leonensia in Heidelberg (1890)
Carl Uhlig as professor of Tübingen University
Kibo summit, (Kilimanjaro); photograph by Carl Uhlig