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Prof. Dr. Christian Stolz 2018 at the Akademie Sankelmark

Christian Stolz (born September 14, 1977 in Bad Schwalbach ) is a German geographer , geomorphologist , geoarchaeologist and university professor .

Scientific career

Christian Stolz grew up in the Aarbergen district of Hausen above Aar in the Rheingau-Taunus district and studied geography , botany and journalism at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Mainz . Since 2004 he was employed as a lecturer and later as a research assistant at the University of Mainz . In 2005 he did his doctorate there under Jörg Grunert on historical soil erosion processes and gully erosion in the Taunus . In 2011 he completed his habilitation on The reconstruction of Quaternary landscape history by floodplain deposits, colluvial sediments and periglacial cover-beds in the low mountain ranges of Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse and the Saarland (western Germany) . Shortly thereafter, Stolz initially moved to the European University of Flensburg as a research associate , where he represented the (ultimately not established) professorship for physical geography and its didactics from 2015 to 2017. In 2017 he was appointed to the Academic Council and in 2019 to an adjunct professor .

In addition to his work in Flensburg, Stolz also teaches at the universities in Mainz and Rostock and at the Sankelmark Academy . From 2000 to 2012 he worked as a freelance journalist for several daily newspapers of the Rhein-Main-Presse . Since 2015 he has been the spokesman for the German Geoarchaeological Working Group .

Research and Teaching

Stolz deals with geomorphological and geoarchaeological issues in Central Europe and Central Asia , slope and floodplain systems , inland dunes , lakes and forest history , as well as with landscape planning and nature conservation , geographical name research and geography didactics . He is the author of over 100 publications and has written a. a. a textbook on excursion didactics (2018).

literature

  • Literature list on the website of the European University of Flensburg ( PDF file ; 850 kB)

Individual evidence

  1. On the person. European University of Flensburg, accessed on July 4, 2019 .
  2. Kiel 2015. Geoarchaeology Working Group, accessed on July 4, 2019 .