Gerd Kohlhepp
Gerd Kohlhepp (born March 21, 1940 in Mannheim ) is a German economic geographer and Brazilian researcher.
Live and act
Gerd Kohlhepp studied geography, geology, economics, history and prehistory at the University of Heidelberg from 1958 to 1962 and obtained his MA from 1964 to 1966, he was a research assistant, in 1967 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . From 1967 to 1972 he worked as a research assistant and received his habilitation in 1972 . From 1972 to 1978 he was Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Frankfurt am Main and then Professor of Economic and Social Geography at the University of Tübingen . In 2005 he retired .
His main research interests were economic and social geography and geographic development research , especially in Latin America and especially in Brazil .
Kohlhepp was editor or co-editor of several journals such as "Geographical Knowledge", "Tübingen Contributions to Geographical Latin America Research", "Geographical Journal", "Research on Latin America", "Applied Geography and Development", "Tübinger Geographical Studies" and "Diálogo Científico" .
Awards and honors
- 1986: Rio Branco Order Brazil
- 1998: University Prize for Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies from the University of Augsburg
- 1999: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
- 2000: Grand Cross of the National Order for Services to Science in Brazil
- 2001: Appointment as a foreign member to the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
Fonts
In 2004 the University of Tübingen presented a list of 244 publications.
- Industrial geography of northeast Santa Catarina (southern Brazil). Dissertation. University of Heidelberg 1968.
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Agricultural colonization in North Paraná. Economic and socio-geographical development processes in a pioneering tropical zone in Brazil under the influence of coffee cultivation. Habilitation thesis. Full Faculty of Natural Sciences at Heidelberg University. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1975, ISBN 3-515-01882-4 .
- Portuguese-language new edition: Colonização agrária no Norte do Paraná. Processos geoeconômicos e sociogeográficos de desenvolvimento de uma zona subtropical do Brasil as well as a influência da plantação de café . Editora da Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá 2014, ISBN 978-85-7628-544-1 ( archive.org ).
- Amazonia. Regional development in the area of tension between economic interests and social and ecological necessities. Deubner, Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-7614-1031-X .
- (Ed.): Latin America. Environment and society between crisis and hope. Institute of Geography, Tübingen 1991, ISBN 3-88121-013-X .
- (Ed.): Brazil. Developing country or tropical great power of the 21st century? Attempto, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3-89308-304-9 .
- with Harald Sioli (Ed.): Lived, beloved Amazonia. Research trips in the Brazilian rainforest between 1940 and 1962. Pfeil, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-89937-071-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Gerd Kohlhepp in the catalog of the German National Library
- Our team - Prof. Dr. Gerd Kohlhepp ( memento from December 17, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the University of Tübingen
Individual evidence
- ↑ Augsburg University Prize for Spanish and Latin American Studies for Prof. Dr. Gerd Kohlhepp and Klaus Dieter Vervuert ( Memento from June 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (university press release ).
- ↑ Prof. Dr. Gerd Kohlhepp. Publications - Publicações - Publicaciones ( Memento of the original of December 27, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on uni-tuebingen.de, 2004 (PDF; 155 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kohlhepp, Gerd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German economic geographer and Brazilian researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mannheim |