Christoph Jentsch

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Christoph Jentsch (born December 21, 1931 in Niederwartha ; † January 6, 2015 in Frankenthal (Pfalz) ) was a German geographer and professor of geography .

Life

Jentsch studied geography, ethnology and history in Frankfurt a M., Innsbruck and Munich. He received his doctorate in Innsbruck in 1960 with a thesis on the Bruneck basin and completed his habilitation in 1971 under Carl Rathjens junior. in Saarbrücken on nomadism in Afghanistan . In 1973 he was appointed to the chair for anthropogeography and area studies at the Geographical Institute of the University of Mannheim . From 1979 to 1982 he was also the prorector of the University of Mannheim. Christoph Jentsch headed the Geographical Institute of the University of Mannheim for many years as managing director. From 1990 to 2005 he also headed the Institute for Cultural Studies and Regional Research at the University of Mannheim. In 2000 he retired.

The Rathjens student and high mountain expert Christoph Jentsch was for decades the only Afghanistan expert (in terms of geography) in Germany. Jentsch was still considered an expert for Tyrol and South Tyrol .

His students included the South Tyrol expert Rainer Loose , the Canada expert Barbara Hahn , the minority expert Rainer Joha Bender, the GIS expert Thomas Ott , the head of IFL Sebastian Lentz , as well as Rainer Lukhaup and Ralf Scheffel; The physiogeography and Mediterranean expert Christophe Neff was also influenced by Jentsch.

Christoph Jentsch still belonged to the generation of "explorers in matters of geography and discoveries", a generation of geographic university teachers and naturalists who no longer exist today. In the 1960s, Christoph Jentsch set off by car from Saarbrücken on a long research trip through the Balkans, Taurus, Caucasus, to the Hindu Kush and Afghanistan to do his post-doctoral research on nomadism in Afghanistan. In this sense, Jentsch can be equated with Germaine Tillion or Théodore Monod .

Jentsch died on January 6, 2015 in Frankenthal, Palatinate, at the age of 83.

Works (selection)

  • Christoph Jentsch: The subject of geography at the Mannheim University from 1907 to 2006. A documentation by Christoph Jentsch . Frankenthal 2009.
  • Alexander Scheid, Christophe Neff, Christoph Jentsch (eds.): Area extension in the Central Black Forest. Results and discussion of the geographical and landscape fire-ecological investigations carried out in the Schramberg area . (Materials on Geography, Vol. 34). Geographical Institute of the University of Mannheim, Mannheim 2004. ISBN 3-923750-92-7 .
  • Christoph Jentsch: Visions of the ideal city: Contributions to the exhibition "Ildefons Cerdà (1815–1876)" at the University of Mannheim in 2002 . Mannheim, 2002. ISBN 3-923750-87-0 .
  • Dieter Anhuf, Christoph Jentsch (Ed.): Contributions to regional studies of Southwest Germany and applied geography . Mannheim 1997. ISBN 3-923750-72-2 .
  • Jürgen Bähr, Christoph Jentsch, Wolfgang Kuls: Population geography . Berlin 1992. ISBN 3-11-008862-2
  • Christoph Jentsch: Height limits in high mountains: Lectures and discussions of a DFG roundtable in Saarbrücken on the 15th and May 16, 1979. Carl Rathjens on his 65th birthday . Saarbrücken 1980.
  • Christoph Jentsch: Nomadism in Afghanistan . Meisenheim a. Glan. 1973

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  • Andreas Dittmann u. a. (Ed.): Who is where? Geographers at universities, colleges and research institutions in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Bonn 2006. ISBN 3-00-016764-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Mannheim mourns the geographer Professor Dr. Christoph Jentsch. Press release of the University of Mannheim from January 9, 2015 (accessed January 14, 2015).
personal data
SURNAME Jentsch, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer and professor of geography
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederwartha
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 2015
Place of death Frankenthal (Palatinate)