Detlev Ipsen

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Detlev Ipsen (born July 2, 1945 in Innsbruck ; † February 18, 2011 in Kassel ) was a German sociologist of Austrian origin.

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Detlev Ipsen's grave in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Ipsen, son of the Austrian sociologist Gunther Ipsen , studied sociology, ethnology and psychology from 1965, initially at the University of Munich . He continued his studies in Vienna in order to obtain his diploma in Mannheim in 1969. After working as an assistant in Mannheim, he continued his education in statistics and methods of empirical social research in Ann Arbor and Colchester from 1973, before doing his doctorate in Mannheim in 1973 with an organizational sociological time budget study .

In 1979 he was appointed professor for urban and regional sociology at the University of Kassel , where he taught until 2010. In his research he dealt with questions of the environment and migration as well as with questions of spatial perception. He examined the role of self-regulation in urban development using the examples of Athens and San Juan (Costa Rica) . He worked on problems of regional development on Vogelsberg as well as on Ecuador and Bolivia .

Ipsen was a member of the AkEnd repository sites selection process working group .

Detlev Ipsen died in February 2011 at the age of 65 in Kassel. His grave is in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: 16-G-13/14).

Fonts (selection)

  • Market and Frankfurt a. M. 1986
  • Spatial images . Centaurus-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Pfaffenweiler 1997, ISBN 3-8255-0179-5 .
  • Water culture (with Georg Cichorowski and Engelbert Schramm ) Berlin 1998
  • Sociology of space: spaces of society - sociological perspectives (with Dieter Läpple) Hagen 2002
  • Place and landscape Wiesbaden 2006
  • Promote diversity and strengthen cohesion: five requirements for a district integration policy in Berlin-Neukölln (with Herbert Glasauer). Kassel 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 488.
personal data
SURNAME Ipsen, Detlev
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 2011
Place of death kassel