Fritz Machatschek

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Fritz Machatschek (born September 22, 1876 in Wischau , † September 25, 1957 in Munich ) was an Austrian geographer (physical geography, geomorphology ). He was Professor of Geography at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

life and work

After graduating from high school in Kremsier in 1894, Machatschek studied geography and geology at the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in 1900 under Albrecht Penck . From 1900 to 1915 he was a teacher in higher education. He completed his habilitation in Vienna in 1906, where he was a private lecturer and undertook research trips to Turkestan and the Tian Shan in 1911 and 1914 . In 1915 he became a full professor of geography at the Charles University in Prague , in 1924 at the ETH Zurich , in 1928 at the University of Vienna and in 1935 in Munich, which he remained until 1946. From 1936 to 1951 he headed the Southeast Institute in Munich. From 1949 to 1951 he was a professor in Tucuman in Argentina.

In 1933 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In addition, from 1938 he was a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , from which he resigned in 1946, shortly after being elected secretary of the math and science class. In addition, Machatschek was the recipient of the silver Carl-Ritter-Medal of the Society for Geography (1923) and the Franz-von-Hauer-Medal of the Austrian Geographical Society (1956). Mount Machatschek in the Antarctic has been named after him since 1960 .

Fonts

  • The Swiss Jura. Attempt of a geomorphological monograph, Gotha 1905
  • The western Tienschan. Results of a geographic study trip, Gotha 1912
  • Glacier science, Leipzig 1902, 2nd edition 1917
  • Geomorphology, Leipzig 1919, 9th edition 1968 (further editions published by his student Hans Graul )
  • Physiogeography of fresh water, Leipzig 1919
  • The Alps, Leipzig 1908, 3rd edition 1929
  • Regional studies of Russian Turkestan, Stuttgart 1921
  • Morphological investigations in the Salzburg Limestone Alps, Berlin 1922
  • Regional geography of Central Europe, Leipzig 1925
  • Regional studies of the Sudeten and Western Carpathian countries, Stuttgart 1927
  • General regional geography of North America, Hanover 1928
  • Czechoslovakia, Weltpolitische Bücherei 8, Berlin 1928
  • Europe as a whole, Vienna 1929
  • The relief of the earth. Attempt of a regional morphology of the earth's surface, 2 volumes, Berlin 1938, 1940, 2nd edition 1955

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Geist und Gestalt: biographical contributions to the history of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, mainly in the second century of its existence. - Munich: Beck, 1959. - 2 volumes; Accessed through World Biographical Information System Online