Oscar Peschel

Oscar Ferdinand Peschel (17 March 1826, Dresden – 13 August 1875, Leipzig) was a German geographer and anthropologist.

[1] As the son of an officer and teacher at the local military school, Peschel studied law from 1845 to 1848 in Leipzig and Heidelberg.

[2] This is thus the fourth oldest chair of geography in Germany after Berlin, Göttingen and Bonn.

Shortly before his death he was also a regular member of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences in Leipzig.

[4] In 1871 he became a full professor of the newly established Chair of Geography at the University of Leipzig, he was also a prominent corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.