Steffen, Hans, 1865-1937

LC control no.	no 96002760
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Personal name heading	Steffen, Hans, 1865-1937 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Steffen, Emilio Hans, 1865-1937 Steffen, Hans, 1865-1936 Steffen Hoffman, Hans, 1865-1937
Associated place	Santiago (Chile)
Birth date	1865-07-27
Death date	1937-04-07
Place of birth	Fürstenwerder-Uckermark (Germany)
Place of death	Davos (Switzerland)
Affiliation	Universidad de Chile. Instituto Pedagógico
Profession or occupation	Geographers Explorers College teachers
Found in	Donoso, F. Hans Steffen, 1994: t.p. (Hans Steffen) p. 11 (Emilio Hans Steffen) b. 1865 in Germany, d. 1936 Geografía en acción, 2014: title page (Hans Steffen) page 23 (Friedrich Emil Hans Steffen; born 27 July 1865 in Fürstenwerder-Uckermark in the Brandenburg region of Germany; a lung infection caused him to move to Switzerland in 1914 and he died there in 1936) Wikipedia, 15 March 2016 (Hans Steffen; Hans Steffen Hoffman (20 July 1865, in Fürstenwerder, Prussia-7 April 1937, in Davos, Switzerland) was a German geographer and explorer of Aysén Region in western Patagonia. Steffen did also work as teacher, encyclopedist and historian. Steffen Glacier on the Northern Patagonian Ice Field is named after him. His work in Chile begun in 1889 when he was contracted by the government of Manuel Balmaceda in Chile to work in the Pedagogical Institute of the University of Chile as teacher of history and geography among other things. He was later contracted to join the Chilean boundary commission to explore areas disputed by Argentina in what is now Aysén Region of Chile.)