Editing Carl Ritter (section)

{{Short description|German geographer (1779–1859)}}
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[[File:Carl Ritter Litho (cropped).jpg|right|thumb|Lithograph by Rudolf Hoffmann (1857)]]
'''Carl Ritter''' (August 7, 1779{{snd}}September 28, 1859) was a German geographer. Along with [[Alexander von Humboldt]], he is considered one of the founders of modern geography,<ref>{{cite web  |author= Lindgren, Uta|author-link= Uta Lindgren |url= https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz74634.html#ndbcontent |title=  Ritter, Carl Georg, Geograph, * 7.8.1779 Quedlinburg, † 28.9.1859 Berlin |publisher= Deutsche Biographie
|doi=  |language = German |accessdate= 4 December 2023}}</ref> as they established it as an independent scientific discipline.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hartshorne |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Hartshorne |date=1939 |title=The pre-classical period of modern geography |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00045603909357282 |journal=Annals of the Association of American Geographers |volume=29 |issue=3 |pages=35–48 |doi=10.1080/00045603909357282 |via=Taylor & Francis}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Kerski |first=Joseph J. |author-link=Joseph Kerski |title=Interpreting Our World: 100 Discoveries That Revolutionized Geography |publisher=ABC-Clio |year=2016 |isbn=9781610699204 |pages=284}}</ref> From 1825 until his death, he occupied the first chair in geography at the [[University of Berlin]].