Elisabeth Lichtenberger

Elisabeth Lichtenberger (1984)

Elisabeth Lichtenberger (born February 17, 1925 in Vienna ; died February 14, 2017 there ) was a geographer and university professor at the University of Vienna . In her academic work, she devoted herself primarily to urban and regional research , mountain research and, in the 1990s, geographic transformation research .

academic career

Lichtenberger studied geography , geology and history at the University of Vienna from 1945 and passed the teaching examination for secondary schools in 1948 . A year later she received her doctorate with a thesis on the morphology of the eastern Gailtal Alps . She embarked on a university career as an assistant and later senior assistant at the Geographical Institute of the University of Vienna with a teaching position at the professorial for cultural geography. In 1965 she qualified as a professor for the entire field of geography at the University of Vienna with her thesis The Business Streets Vienna. A statistical-physiognomic analysis .

Between 1968 and 1972 she was visiting professor in Ottawa ( Canada ), Kent (Ohio) , USA and Erlangen . In the winter semester 1987/88 she was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley in the USA.

From 1972 to 1995 Lichtenberger was a full professor in geography, spatial research and regional planning at the Institute for Geography and Regional Research at the University of Vienna. She founded the "Spatial Research and Regional Planning" branch of study.

In 1988 she also founded the Institute for Urban and Regional Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. She also coordinated the priority program “Austria. Raum und Gesellschaft ”of the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research (FWF).

Memberships in academies

• Academia Europaea , London
• Fellow of the British Academy
• Real member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Corresponding member of the Academy for Spatial Research and Regional Planning (ARL), Hanover

Awards

• 1967 Cardinal Innitzer Prize
• 1968 Dr. Theodor Körner Prize
• 1985 University Prize of the Viennese Economy
• 1986 Gold Medal of Honor of the Federal Capital Vienna
• 1986 honorary member of the Frankfurt Geographical Society
• 1987 honorary member of the Hungarian Geographical Society
• 1989 Hermann Haack Medal of the Geographical Society of the GDR
• 1994 honorary doctorate D.Lit. hc from the University of Chicago
• 1994 honorary member of the Societa Geografica Italiana
• 1996 Hauer Medal of the Austrian Geographical Society
• 1996 Honorary Member of the Royal Geographical Society
• 1999 Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art
• 2000 Cardinal Innitzer Prize (Grand Prize)
• 2001 Honorary Doctor Dr. hc from the University of Leipzig
• 2009 Science Prize of the State of Lower Austria

Works

Lichtenberger is the author of 20 books and 230 essays on comparative metropolitan research, cultural and high mountain research, political systems, guest worker research, transformation research in East Central Europe as well as geography and specialist history:

• The mountain farmers problem in the Austrian Alps. Periods and types of resettlement In: Geography, Volume 19, 1965
• Vienna. Structural design and development. Together with H. Bobek 1966, 2nd edition 1978
• Economic function and social structure of the Vienna Ringstrasse. 1970
• The Eastern Alps. 1975
• The old town of Vienna. From the medieval town to the city. 1977
• City geographic guide Vienna. 1978
• Guest workers - living in two societies. Vienna, Cologne, Graz 1984, ISBN 978-3-205-07217-1 .
• Urban geography 1 - terms, concepts, models, processes. 1st edition 1986, 2nd edition 1991, 3rd edition 1998, ISBN 978-3-519-23424-1 .
• Urban development and dynamic factor ecology . Together with Heinz Fassmann and D. Mühlgassner, Vienna 1987, ISBN 978-3-7001-1014-9
• Urban decay and urban renewal. Vienna 1990, ISBN 978-3-7001-1795-7 .
• The future of East Central Europe. From plan to market. 1991
• Geografia dello spazio urbano. Milano 1993, ISBN 88-400-0284-7 .
• Vienna. Bridge Between Cultures. 1993
• Vienna-Prague. Metropolitan research. Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 1993, ISBN 978-3-205-98033-9 .
• Urban decay and renewal in Budapest. Together with Z. Czéfalvay and M. Paal. Vienna 1994, ISBN 978-3-7001-2169-5 .
• Lived interdisciplinarity. 1995
• Markets in motion. Together with Heinz Fassmann . 1995
• Austria. Geography, history, economics, politics. Darmstadt 2013 (2nd edition), ISBN 978-3-534-25461-3 .
• Austria. Society and Regions . Vienna 2000, ISBN 978-3-7001-2775-8 .
• The town. From the polis to the metropolis . Darmstadt 2011 (2nd edition), ISBN 978-3-89678-766-8 .
• Europe. Geography, history, economics, politics. Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 978-3-89678-543-5 .
• The development of geography as a science in the mirror of institutional politics and biography research. From the large state of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy to the small state of the Second Republic. In: People, Space, Environment . (Eds. R. Musil, C. Staudacher) Vienna 2009, pp. 13–51, ISBN 978-3-901313-20-2 .

literature

• Elisabeth Aufhauser, Walter Matznetter: Lichtenberger, Elisabeth . In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 469–474.

Web links

• Literature by and about Elisabeth Lichtenberger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Science pioneer celebrates 85th birthday , dieStandard.at , February 17, 2010
• Homepage at the University of Vienna , September 16, 2014.
• Obituary of the Austrian Academy of Sciences