Detlef Müller-Mahn

Detlef Müller-Mahn (born October 28, 1955 in Göttingen ) is a German geographer and university professor for social and cultural geography . He teaches at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1974 in Göttingen , he completed a nursing training from 1974 to 1976 at the University Hospital Göttingen . He then began studying geography at the University of Göttingen , which he completed in 1981. He then worked as a research assistant at the TU Berlin , before going to the American University in Cairo from 1983 to 1985 . From 1985 to 1987 he wrote his dissertation under the title “The Aulad 'Ali between tribe and state. Development and social change among the Bedouins in north-western Egypt? ”.

Subsequently, Müller-Mahn worked as a foreign employee of the German Society for Technical Cooperation , before he was a research assistant at the Free University of Berlin from 1991 to 1996 . In 1996 he completed his habilitation there with the thesis “Fellachendörfer. Socio-geographical change in rural Egypt ”. From 1995 to 1998 he was a substitute professor for “Economics of the Near East” at the Oriental Institute of the University of Leipzig . He then worked at the Institute of Geography at the University of Bonn , before taking over the chair for Population and Social Geography at the University of Bayreuth in 2001 . Since April 2013 he has been a professor at the Geography Institute at the University of Bonn.

job

Müller-Mahn's research focuses on geographical development research and risk research . He mainly focuses on the Arab world , East Africa and Korea .

Web links

• Profile on the website of the University of Bonn.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Claudio Araneda: Geographical paperback. David Brown Book, 2009, p. 346.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Prof. Dr. Detlef Müller-Mahn - Department of Geography University Bonn. Retrieved April 26, 2020 .