Franz Tichy

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Franz Tichy (born July 16, 1921 in Marburg , † October 29, 2004 in Erlangen ) was a German geographer and professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg .

Life

Born in Marburg, Franz Tichy grew up in Schreiberhau in the Giant Mountains . His father Hans Tichy , a native scribe, had returned there in 1921 after completing his specialist training. Through his paternal grandmother, Emilie Tichy, née Partsch, Franz Tichy was related to the geographer Joseph Partsch , who was his great-uncle.

Like his father, Franz Tichy attended high school in Hirschberg , where he graduated from high school. In 1940 he began to study meteorology at the University of Marburg , but was drafted after one semester for military service, which he completed in a remote intelligence unit in Athens and Belgrade . After the end of the Second World War and a short period of imprisonment, he continued his studies in Marburg for the winter semester 1945/46, but switched to geography , biology and physics . In Marburg he was in 1950 in geography at Heinrich Schmitthenner Dr. phil. PhD , the subject of his dissertation was "The geographic foundations of water management in the Lahn area". He then worked as a research assistant in Marburg until 1951 and then took up an assistant position with Gottfried Pfeifer at the University of Heidelberg . Here he received his habilitation thesis “The Forests of Basilicata and Deforestation in the 19th Century. Processes, Causes and Consequences ”completed his habilitation in 1960 . From then on he worked as a lecturer in Heidelberg, but in the summer semester of 1962 he took the chair for geography at the Technical University of Karlsruhe . In 1964, the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg appointed him to the newly established second chair for geography, which Franz Tichy held from the winter semester 1964/65 until his retirement in 1986. He also remained active at the university as an emeritus.

After researching physical geography , Franz Tichy turned to cultural geography under the influence of his Heidelberg scientific environment, with special emphasis on cultural landscape research and agricultural geography . Tichy was a recognized expert on the regional geography of Italy and expanded this focus to include Mexico after his habilitation . Funded by the German Research Foundation , he devoted himself to the cultural landscape history of Mexico from 1962 to 1978, but remained connected to the subject area until his retirement. As part of his cultural-geographic research, Tichy later often moved at the interface between geography, ethnology and archeology . As a result of regional studies in Franconia , he developed sheet 163, dedicated to Nuremberg , for the handbook of the natural structure of Germany .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Lahn. Geographical basics of water management. Marburg / L. 1951.
  • The deforestation processes of the 19th century in Basilicata (southern Italy) and their consequences . In: Geography. Archive for Scientific Geography , Vol. 11 (1957), Issue 4, pp. 288–296.
  • The agricultural and forestry formations of the Kleiner Odenwald. Geographical Institute, Heidelberg 1958.
  • Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 163 Nuremberg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1973. →  Online map (PDF; 4.0 MB)
  • Interpretation of local and field networks in the highlands of Mexico as cult religious relic forms of ancient Indian settlement . In: Geography. Archive for Scientific Geography , Vol. 28 (1974), Issue 3, pp. 194-207.
  • (as editor): Urban structures on old trade routes in functional change up to the present . Degener, Neustadt ad Aisch 1984, ISBN 3-7686-9083-0 .
  • (as editor): The Franconian Alb. Degener, Neustadt ad Aisch 1989, ISBN 3-7686-9101-2 .
  • with Johanna Broda: The orderly world of Indian peoples. An example of spatial and temporal planning in pre-Columbian Mexico (= The Mexico Project of the German Research Foundation , Vol. 21). Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 1991, ISBN 3-515-05424-3 .
  • Codices and their meaning for astrological ideas and astronomical knowledge of the Mexica and Maya . In: Carmen Arellano Hoffmann, Peer Schmidt : The books of the Maya, Mixtec and Aztec. Script and its function in pre-Hispanic and colonial codices . Vervuert, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-89354-094-6 , pp. 307-342.
  • Schreiberhau / Szklarska Pore̜ba. A tourist destination between the Giant and Jizera Mountains (= Erlanger geographical works , special volume 27). Palm & Enke, Erlangen 1999, ISBN 3-920405-86-2 .
  • with Klaus Rother : Italy ( Scientific Country Customers Series ). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2000.

literature

  • Ingo Kühne: Franz Tichy (1921-2004). In: Mitteilungen der Fränkische Geographische Gesellschaft Vol. 52, pp. 35–45 ( online ).

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personal data
SURNAME Tichy, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 2004
Place of death gain