Edgar Kant

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Edgar Kant (around 1930)

Edgar Kant (born February 21, 1902 in Reval , Estonia Governorate , † October 16, 1978 in Lund , Sweden ) was an Estonian-Swedish geographer .

Life

Kant studied at the University of Tartu (dt. Dorpat ), at the University of Szeged , at the University of World Trade in Vienna , the St. Gallen University of Commerce and at the Hamburg World Economic Archive . He received his doctorate in 1934 and has been a full professor of economic geography in Tartu since 1936 . When the Estonian Academy of Sciences was founded, he was its youngest member. He was rector of Tartu from 1941 until 1944.

After the Red Army invaded Estonia, he emigrated to Sweden. There he taught economic geography at Lund University . Before that, he was head of the Baltic Research Institute in Bonn .

Web links

Commons : Edgar Kant  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of founding members , accessed on July 1, 2015
  2. ↑ Entry in the Lexicon of Geography (Spectrum, 2001)
  3. ↑ Anne Buttimer : Edgar Kant, 1902-1978 . In: TW Freeman, M. Oughton, P. Pinchemel (Eds.): Geographers: biobibliographical studies . tape 11 . Mansell, London / New York 1987, pp. 71-82 .
  4. ↑ Peter Wörster (Ed.): Universities in Eastern Central Europe: Between Church, State and Nation ... , p. 83. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
personal data
SURNAME Kant, Edgar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian-Swedish geographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Reval , Estonia Governorate
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1978
Place of death Lund , Sweden