Frank Ahnert

Frank O. Ahnert (born December 12, 1927 in Wittgensdorf ; † September 10, 2017 in Cambridge ) was a German geographer and university professor at RWTH Aachen University .

Life

After studying geography at the University of Heidelberg , he received his doctorate there in 1953 on the surface shapes of the Dahn rock country in southern Haardt . From 1954 to 1974 he taught at the University of Maryland . From 1966 he was a professor there. In 1974 he followed the call to the RWTH Aachen for the chair for physical geography and geoecology. His particular research interest was the modeling of earth surface processes. In 1993 he retired. One of his most important works is the introduction to geomorphology , which has appeared in several editions since 1996 and also in English. In 2013 he received the Ferdinand von Richthofen Medal from the German Working Group for Geomorphology.

Publications

Monographs

• with Heinrich Rohdenburg, Arno Semmel : Contributions to the geomorphology of the tropics . Catena-Verlag, Cremlingen 1982, ISBN 978-3-923381-01-2
• Introduction to geomorphology . Ulmer, 1996, ISBN 3-8001-2697-4

Translations

• Alan H. Strahler, Arthur N. Strahler: Physical geography . Ulmer, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 978-3-8001-2709-2 .

literature

• Karl-Heinz Schmidt, J. de Ploey (Ed.): Functional geomorphology: landform analysis and models . Festschrift for Frank Ahnert. Catena-Verlag, Cremlingen-Destedt 1992, ISBN 3-923381-32-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mike Kirkby: Obituary: Professor Dr. Frank Ahnert. In: Newsletter of the British Society for Geomorphology , December 2017 ( PDF ).
2. ^ Obituary notice from RWTH Aachen University , Aachener Zeitung / Aachener Nachrichten, September 20, 2017
3. ↑ Frank Ahnert: Introduction to Geomorphology . Ulmer, Stuttgart 2009, p. 4
4. ↑ Funding and Awards - German Working Group for Geomorphology