Carl Troll
German geographer (1899-1975) · Germany · On the map · Academics · Died at 75
Carl Troll was a German geographer, brother of botanist Wilhelm Troll. From 1919 until 1922 Troll studied biology, chemistry, geology, geography and physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. In 1921, he obtained his doctorate in botany and in 1925 his habilitation in geography.
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Between 1922 and 1927 he worked as an assistant at the Geography Institute at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Troll was engaged in research in the ecology and geography of mountainous lands: between 1926 and 1929 went on a research journey throughout South American Andean countries where he visited northern Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Panama. In 1933 and 1934 his research interests took him to East and South Africa; in 1937 Troll was in Ethiopia; and in 1954 he visited Mexico.
