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 )
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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 |