Franz Fliri

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Franz Fliri (born February 9, 1918 in Baumkirchen , Tyrol ; † June 15, 2008 ibid) was an Austrian geographer , climatologist and Quaternary researcher . He was rector of the University of Innsbruck from 1977 to 1979.

Life

Franz Fliri, son of a Tyrolean family of teachers and farmers, studied history and geography for teaching at the University of Innsbruck until 1946 . In 1947 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the population geography of the Lower Inn Valley. Fliri initially worked on the family's own farm. From 1959 he worked as a teacher at the Episcopal High School Paulinum in Schwaz . At the same time he worked on climatological research and completed his habilitation in 1962 with a thesis entitled “Wetterlagenkunde von Tirol”.

In 1964 he was appointed associate professor for geography at the University of Innsbruck; 1967 was made reputation as a full professor in succession to the climate and glacier researcher Hans Kinzl (1898-1979). From 1977 to 1979 he was rector of the University of Innsbruck. In 1987 he retired and continued to teach as an emeritus.

Franz Fliri, who covered the subject of geography in its entirety, was mostly perceived from outside as a climatologist or Quaternary researcher.

Fliri was a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina as well as a corresponding member of the Frankfurt Geographical Society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

He published numerous scientific papers, in particular on Tyrol and the Alps. His work “Snow observation in the Alps” is considered a standard work. In 1988 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU) .

Awards

Fonts

  • Population geographic studies in the Lower Inn Valley, 1948
  • Weather forecast of Tyrol, 1962
  • The band tone of Baumkirchen (Inntal, Tyrol). A new key point to the knowledge of the Würm glaciation of the Alps, 1970 (together with S. Bortenschlager, H. Felber, W. Heissel, H. Hielscher and, W. Resch)
  • Precipitation and air temperature in the Alpine region, 1974
  • The climate of the Alps in the Tyrol region, 1975
  • Statistics and diagram, 2nd edition 1975
  • The position of the band clay deposits from Schabs (South Tyrol) in the Alpine Würm Chronology, 1978
  • Synoptic climatography of the Alps between Mont Blanc and Hohen Tauern, 1984
  • Contributions to the knowledge of recent climate changes in Tyrol, 1986
  • The gravel pit of Albeins near Brixen, a new key point to the knowledge of the chronology of the worm freezing in South Tyrol, 1988
  • Extreme sums of precipitation in Tyrol, 1989
  • The snow in North and East Tyrol 1895–1991, 1992
  • Hans Kinzl and the Innsbruck School of Population Geography, 1996
  • Natural history of Tyrol, Oberpinzgau, Vorarlberg, Trentino, 1998
  • Baumkirchen. Local history of a village in Tyrol, 2nd edition 1999

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB).
personal data
SURNAME Fliri, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Baumkirchen , Tyrol
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 2008
Place of death Baumkirchen , Tyrol