Dietrich Zühlke
Dietrich Zühlke (born April 18, 1925 in Bischofswerda ; † December 11, 1983 ) was a German geographer.
Life
After his school education, he attended a teachers' seminar, which he successfully completed. In 1952 he began studying geography at the Leipzig Geographic Institute at the University of Leipzig . There he graduated as a geographer in 1956. He became an assistant at the Pedagogical Institute in Dresden and was soon promoted to senior assistant at the later Pedagogical University. On January 1, 1958, he moved to the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, which later became the GDR Academy of Sciences. For a long time he worked for the office of the commission for local history research in Dresden.
Dietrich Zühlke doctorate in 1959 in Leipzig with Edgar Lehmann Dr. rer. nat. His dissertation is entitled “The cities of the Eastern Ore Mountains. Historical-geographical investigations with special consideration of areas of influence and finding the meaning of small-town settlements ”. In 1981 Zühlke presented his dissertation B at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, in which he summarized his previous urban research for the three Saxon districts of Dresden, Leipzig and Karl-Marx-Stadt.
Works (selection)
Dietrich Zühlke earned lasting merits by editing the series Values of the German Homeland . From the publication of Volume 3, Zühlke usually provided technical articles for this traditional series, which is still published today. He also edited some of the volumes in this series or was co-editor or editor, including volumes 31 Between Zwickauer Mulde and Geyerschem Wald. Results of the local history inventory in the areas of Wildenfels, Lößnitz and Geyer (1978), Elbe valley and Loess hill country near Meißen. Results of the local history inventory in the areas of Hirschstein and Meißen (1979) or Um Olbernhau and Seiffen. Results of the local history inventory in the areas of Zöblitz, Olbernhau, Neuwernsdorf and Rübenau (1985, published posthumously ).
Honors
- 1957 Pestalozzi Medal for loyal service
- 1981 Johannes R. Becher Medal
- 1983 Johannes Stoux Medal
literature
- Werner Schmid: In memory of Dietrich Zühlke. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter . Vol. 30, No. 5, 1984, p. 239.
Web links
- Literature by and about Dietrich Zühlke in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Dietrich Zühlke in the Saxon Bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ Werner Schmid: In memory of Dietrich Zühlke. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter . Vol. 30, No. 5, 1984, p. 239.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zühlke, Dietrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bischofswerda |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 11, 1983 |