Eugen Oberhummer
Eugen Oberhummer (born March 29, 1859 in Munich , † May 4, 1944 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian geographer .
Born as the son of the Munich businessman Matthias Oberhummer, Eugen Oberhummer studied natural sciences and classical philology at the University of Munich since 1877 . At the same time he studied geography and geology at the Technical University of Munich . During his studies he became a member of the Academic Choral Society in Munich . After receiving his doctorate in 1882, he continued his studies in Munich (Egyptian antiquity) and Berlin (Roman history). From 1886 to 1892 private lecturer, Oberhummer was since 1892 associate professor of geography at the University of Munich.
From 1902 to 1930 Oberhummer was a full professor for historical and political geography at the University of Vienna . In Vienna, Oberhummer represented a German-national orientation of his faculty, since Vienna had been “a German city at all times”. He was a representative of political geography after Friedrich Ratzel . In connection with the “living space” concept of his colleague Albrecht Penck , Oberhummer is said to have integrated and propagated this “living space” concept in the re-edition of Ratzel's book “Political Geography”, which he published. This concept was later to be taken up under National Socialism as part of the blood-and-soil ideology .
He was also chairman of the Geographic Society in Munich from 1899 to 1902 and second president of the German and Austrian Alpine Club from 1898 to 1900 . He became an extraordinary (1898) or corresponding member (1903) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1920 he became a real member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and several times President and from 1933 Honorary President of the Austrian Geographical Society . Oberhummer also received the title of " Hofrat ".
He went on study trips to Greece , Turkey , Asia Minor , Cyprus , Syria , Egypt and North America . His main research area was historical geography ; he published among other things on the geography of ancient Greece, Turkey and Cyprus. He contributed over 900 articles to Pauly's Realencyclopedia of Classical Classical Antiquity (RE).
In 1954, the Oberhummergasse in Vienna- Floridsdorf (21st district) was named after him.
literature
- Ingrid Kretschmer: Oberhummer, Eugen. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 388 f. ( Digitized version ).
- E. Bernleithner: Oberhummer Eugen. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 185 f. (Direct links on p. 185 , p. 186 ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Eugen Oberhummer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Oberhummer-Gesellschaft München Society for research into the history of architecture and art in the northern Greek cultural area e. V.
- Holdings in the catalogs of the Austrian National Library
Remarks
- ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book. Membership directory of all old men. As of October 1, 1937. Hanover 1937, p. 170.
- ↑ a b Vienna's street names since 1860 as “political places of remembrance” (PDF; 4.4 MB), p. 288ff, final research project report, Vienna, July 2013
- ↑ Cf. register of the article Oberhummer in the digitization project for RE on Wikisource .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oberhummer, Eugene |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 4, 1944 |
| Place of death | Vienna |