Egon Lendl
Egon Lendl (born November 1, 1906 in Trento ; † January 7, 1989 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian geographer , founder and long-time director of the Geographical Institute of the University of Salzburg and in 1964/65 the first elected rector of the re-founded University of Salzburg.
Life
When he was nine years old, Egon Lendl moved to Vienna with his parents . He studied geography, geology, history and folklore at the University of Vienna . During the Second World War he toured Albania , Greece , Bulgaria and Turkey , after which he was editor of the Salzburg State Atlas. His habilitation from 1944 with a thesis on the German influence on the cultural landscape of Southeast Europe had to be completed again in 1953 according to Austrian regulations. In 1964 he was elected a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .
After Lendl's retirement , Helmut Heuberger took over his full professorship .
Works
- The Central European Cultural Landscape in the Upheaval of the Present (1951)
- Salzburg from a socio-geographical perspective (1963)
- The Recent Changes in the European Cultural Landscape (1966)
literature
- Alexander Pinwinkler : The “founding generation” of the University of Salzburg: biographies, networks, appointment policy, 1960–1975, Böhlau: Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 2020.
Web links
- Literature by and about Egon Lendl in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Egon Lendl in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Egon Lendl (1964–1965) | Carl Holböck (1965–1966) | René Marcic (1966–1967) | Stefan Rehrl (1967–1968) | Wolfgang Waldstein (1968–1969) | Rudolf Baehr (1969–1970) | Stefan Rehrl (1970–1971) | Friedrich Koja (1971–1972) | Ingo Reiffenstein (1972–1973) | Franz Nikolasch (1973–1974) | Franz Matscher (1974–1975) | Hans Wagner (1975–1977) | Wilhelm Josef Revers (1977–1979) | Wolfgang Beilner (1979–1983) | Friedrich Koja (1983–1985) | Joachim Dalfen (1985–1987) | Fritz Schweiger (1987–1989) | Theodor Wolfram Köhler (1989–1991) | Alfred Kyrer (1991–1993) | Edgar Morscher (1993–1995) | Adolf Haslinger (1995-2001) | Heinrich Schmidinger (2001–2019) | Hendrik Lehnert (since 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lendl, Egon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian geographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trent |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 7, 1989 |
| Place of death | Salzburg |