Gerhard Hard

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Gerhard Hard (born June 12, 1934 ) is a German geographer and university professor who has critically examined the history, methods and objects in German geography and especially landscape geography since the 1960s .

Scientific career

Hard, who studied geography, German language and literature and biology in Saarbrücken and Freiburg im Breisgau, received his doctorate in 1962 with a vegetation-geographic dissertation on "Kalktrifte between Westrich and Metzer Land" and habilitated in 1969 at the University of Bonn with the method-critical study "The 'landscape' of language and the 'landscape' of geographers ”, where he became professor of geography and its didactics in 1970. After he had been a full professor at the Pedagogical University of Rhineland from 1971 , he moved to the University of Osnabrück in 1977, where he held the chair of physical geography until 1999.

Scientific achievements

In a semantic analysis of the term ' landscape ', Gerhard Hard was able to show that this term, which is central to German geography and originated from painting and the aesthetic consideration of a section of space, continues to have a variety of aesthetic connotations. With the evidence that this permeates the scientific work of many geographers, Gerhard Hard has since been regarded by many German geographers as the enfant terrible of the profession. Hard's status within theoretical geography is based on an extremely profound knowledge of the philosophy of language and the analytical philosophy of science, which he applies to the subject of geography and its scientific representatives. From his knowledge as a vegetation geographer , Gerhard Hard extended his criticism to green planning , land maintenance and nature conservation , because these follow the aesthetic conception of the landscape of geography.

He opposed the scientistic use of the concept of landscape in geography. a. based on Stephen Toulmin , Thomas S. Kuhn , Imre Lakatos u. Jerome Ravetz developed landscape studies as folk science, which he developed into evidence science in the sense of Karl-Heinrich Hülbusch . The vegetation is an indication for him, which is why he does not classify the vegetation of a room as a natural phenomenon, but reads it as a trace of human activity. He transferred this approach to urban development, often using unconventional methods.

Publications

  • 1970: The 'total impression of the landscape'. Supplement to Geographische Zeitschrift 23: pp. 49–73.
  • 1970: The 'landscape' of language and the 'landscape' of geographers. Dümmler, Bonn.
  • 1970: Again: 'Landscape as Objectified Mind'. On the origin and the research-based analysis of a thought . The Earth 101 (3): pp. 171–197.
  • 1973: Geography - An introduction to the theory of science . de Gruyter, Berlin, New York.
  • 1979: The discipline of the whitewashers . In: On the situation of German geography ten years after Kiel, pp. 11–44, Osnabrück.
  • 1983: On the concept and history of 'nature' in the geography of the 19th and 20th centuries . In: G. Großklaus, E. Oldemeyer, E. (ed.): Nature as a counter-world. Contributions to the cultural history of nature . von Loeber, Karlsruhe: pp. 139–167.
  • 1985: Urban lawns, viewed hermeneutically . In: Festschrift Elisabeth Lichtenberger, pp. 29–52, Klagenfurt.
  • 1988: Suicide and Weather - Suicide and Society . Steiner, Stuttgart.
  • 1990: Discipline encounter on a track . In: Hard-Ware, Notebook 18 of the Kasseler Schule, pp. 1–53, Kassel.
  • 1991: Landscape as a professional idol . In: Garten und Landschaft, H. 3/1991, pp. 13-18.
  • 1991: Confusions and Paradoxes . In: Garten und Landschaft, H. 1/1992, pp. 13-18.
  • 1995: tracks and trackers. Osnabrück Studies on Geography, Vol. 16 (PDF; 1.2 MB).
  • 1998: Ruderal vegetation - ecology & ethnoecology, aesthetics and protection. Notebook 49 of the Kassel School.
  • 2001: Landscape and Space. Essays on the theory of geography, Volume 1 . University Press Rasch, Osnabrück.
  • 2000: Of melancholy geography . In: Geographische Revue , 2 (2): pp. 39–66.
  • 2003: Dimensions of Geographical Thought . Essays on the theory of geography, Vol. 2. Osnabrück.
  • 2004: From a recently raised denominational tone in geography . In: geographical review, 6 (1): pp. 39–54.
  • 2005: Painted Poetry. Landscape in language and art . Political Ecology 23 (96): pp. 19–21.
  • 2008: The spatial turn, observed from the point of view of geography . In: J. Döring & T. Thielmann (eds.): Spatial Turn. The space paradigm in the cultural and social sciences . transcript, Münster: pp. 263-315.
  • a total of approx. 220 scientific publications, including 14 books

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Hard 2001: Landscape and Space. Essays on the theory of geography, Vol. 1. Osnabrück.
  2. ↑ Gerhard Hard 1985: Urban lawns, viewed hermeneutically. In: Festschrift Elisabeth Lichtenberger, pp. 29–52, Klagenfurt.
  3. ^ Gerhard Hard 1990: Discipline encounter on a track. kassel
  4. ^ Gerhard Hard 1995: Traces and Trace Readers. Osnabrück

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personal data
SURNAME Hard, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1934