BERLIN, Oct. 7.-Prof. Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen, the distinguished geographer, died to-day. He was born in 1833. Prof. von Richthofen was a member of the well-known Silesian family of that name.

Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen, the German historian and geographer, coined the expression “Silk Road” 130 years ago to designate the well-worn path between China and the West via Damascus.

SHELLEN WU, The Search for Coal in the Age of Empires: Ferdinand von Richthofen's Odyssey in China, 1860—1920, The American Historical Review, Vol. 119, No. 2 (APRIL 2014), pp. 339-363 ...

THE second volume of Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen's great work on China has just appeared. Five years have elapsed since the publication of the first volume, and two additional volumes are ...

News Published: 02 November 1905 Ferdinand Baron Von Richthofen A. G. Nature 73, 8–9 (1905) Cite this article ...

When German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen coined the term Silk Road in 1877, he may have never imagined that similar roads had existed long before the ancient trade route originated in the ...

Formally established during the Han dynasty, in the first and second centuries BC, it wasn’t until 1877 that Ferdinand von Richthofen coined the term Silk Road (historians increasingly favour ...

The Silk Road is a modern abstraction, a term coined in 1877 by the German geologist-explorer, Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen. (His nephew Manfred, the famous "Red Baron", was a flying ace in ...

Since silk comprised a large proportion of trade along this route, it was named 'Silk Road' by Ferdinand von Richthofen, an eminent German geographer, in 1877 The old silk caravan route reportedly ...

"The term Silk Road was coined at the end of the 19th century by the German geologist and Orientalist Ferdinand von Richthofen, who between 1868 and 1872 did extensive research in China," says ...