Erik Arnberger

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Erik Arnberger (born April 22, 1917 in Vienna ; † August 25, 1987 there ) was an Austrian cartographer .

Life

Arnberger grew up as the son of the teacher Franz Arnberger and his wife Auguste Arnberger (née Brinninger). After graduating from high school , he studied geography , geology and meteorology at the University of Vienna from 1937 . Through his choice of studies and his interests, he came into contact with the subject of cartography . Due to the Second World War , he had to interrupt his studies, as he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1940 and became a prisoner of war after the end of the war .

In June 1948 he received his doctorate. phil. and in the following years pursued various professional, scientific and voluntary activities. Among other things, he was a clerk at the Austrian Academy of Sciences , headed a main department of the Austrian Central Statistical Office and oversaw the completion of the “Atlas of Lower Austria and Vienna” and the “Atlas of the Republic of Austria”.

Teaching activity and offices

Parallel to his other activities, Arnberger took on teaching positions at schools and universities, first in 1946/47 at the Vienna Commercial Academy for Economic Geography , then from 1955 to 1966 at the University of World Trade in Vienna, and from 1961 to 1963 at the University of Vienna , where he worked in 1963 qualified as a professor . In 1966 Arnberger was appointed associate professor at the University of Vienna, he received his full professorship in 1968 and held it until 1983. One of his merits is the establishment of cartography as a field of study. As part of the general geography training at the Vienna Institute, he also dealt with various aspects of school cartography - to which his work for school atlases at the Westermann publishing house also contributed.

In his teaching activities he systematized thematic cartography and its representation methods . The "Handbuch zur Thematic Kartographie", which appeared in 1966, is one of the first German-language textbooks in this area.

Erik Arnberger was also Chairman of the Cartographic Commission in the Austrian Geographical Society (1961 to 1985), President of the Austrian Geographical Society (1975 to 1978), extraordinary member of the Central Statistical Commission of the Austrian Federal Chancellery (from 1968), founding member of the International Cartographic Association IKV ( from 1959, voluntary work from 1971 to 1973). From 1969 to 1985 he was director of the Institute for Cartography at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. From 1970 to 1976 he was also a corresponding member and later also chairman of the working group at the Academy for Spatial Research and Regional Planning in Hanover .

Private life

Erik Arnberger married the scientist Dr. Hertha Jurczak (married Pelinka, * 1920), with whom he had two children Harald (1950) and Walter (1953). Together with his wife he went on extensive study trips, during which he visited all continents. In 1987 he was infected with malaria while on a trip to Africa . The inadequately treated disease resulted in his death on August 25, 1987.

The enthusiastic mountaineer was also involved in the Austrian Alpine Club , of which he was a member from 1947. There he was instructor for mountaineering as well as the regional office manager for alpine youth hiking, from 1963 2nd chairman of the Edelweiß section and from 1967 a member of the cartography committee. He dedicated several publications to the Alpine Association, in particular "The Cartography in the Alpine Association" from 1970. From 1972 to 1987 he was first chairman of the Austrian Alpine Association.

Awards

Works

Arnberger published about 360 papers. The most important are:

  • Thematic Cartography Handbook. Vienna 1966
  • Cartography in the Alpine Club. Vienna 1970

source

  • Biography of Erik Arnberger ( by Olaf Schnabel , further literature given there)

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personal data
SURNAME Arnberger, Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1987
Place of death Vienna