Gottfried Pfeifer

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Gottfried Georg Pfeifer (born January 20, 1901 in Berlin ; † July 6, 1985 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German geographer and university professor .

Life

Gottfried Pfeifer, the son of grammar school professor Wilhelm Pfeifer and his wife Margarete née Haseloff, passed his Abitur in his hometown of Berlin in 1920 . He then turned to studying geography at the Universities of Marburg , Munich and Kiel . During his studies in Marburg he became a member of the Academic-Musical Association Fridericiana . In 1927, in Kiel his promotion to Dr. phil. with Leo Waibel . In the same year he took up a position as a research assistant at the Geographical Institute of the University of Kiel. In the following year, Gottfried Pfeifer moved to California on a scholarship from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Foundation , where he took on a position in 1930 as an assistant professor to Carl O. Sauer at the University of Berkeley .

After his return to Germany in 1932 he was employed as a senior assistant at the Geographical Institute of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , where he received the Venia Legendi for geography in 1934 , and in 1941 he was promoted to extraordinary professor. In addition, he was deputy professor at the universities of Leipzig and Göttingen . After the end of the war , Gottfried Pfeifer moved to the Department of Regional Studies in Scheinfeld as a research assistant . In 1947 he followed a call to the full professorship of geography and the direction of the Economic Geography Institute at the University of Hamburg . In 1949 Pfeifer went to Heidelberg , where he was given the full professorship in geography and head of the Institute of Geography, and in 1969 he retired .

Pfeifer, who undertook research trips to the USA and Latin America (1928 to 1930 and 1966 to Mexico , 1950, 1956, 1962 and 1965 to Brazil as well as 1959), emerged as the author of highly regarded essays on all areas of human geography . Gottfried Pfeifer was accepted as a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , the Geographical Society Munich and the American Geographical Society.

Gottfried Pfeifer, who married Hermann, born in 1929 to Ruth, with whom he had four children named Hans, Eva, Dieter and Gerda, died in 1985 at the age of 84 in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Publications

  • The settlement image of the landscape fishing , inaugural dissertation . Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau 1928
  • The spatial structure of agriculture in northern California. Shepherd, Leipzig 1936
  • Review of: Lucien Febvre , The Rhine and its history. In Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter 6, 1939, pp. 95-101
  • The United States and Mexico. A historical overview. Essen Publishing House , Essen 1943
  • The food industry of the earth, Verlag des Amt für Landeskunde, Landshut 1950
  • Alexander von Humboldt : on the 100th anniversary of his death on May 6, 1959: Years of Development and American Travel, in: Ruperto-Carola. Announcements from the Association of Friends of the Student Union of Heidelberg University , vol. 11.1959, vol. 25, pp. 128–150 .; Vol. 2, pp. 176-188
  • Atlantic world. Problems of the design of new world cultural landscapes using the example of Brazil, Geographical Institute of the University of Würzburg in conjunction with the Geographical Society of Würzburg, 1966
  • Cultural geography in method and teaching. The relationship to space and time. Collected Posts. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1982

literature

Festschriften

  • Hans Graul, Hermann Overbeck (ed.): Heidelberg studies on cultural geography . Ceremony for the 65th birthday of Gottfried Pfeifer (=  Heidelberg Geographical Works . Volume 15 ). Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 1966.
  • Gisbert Glaser (Ed.): Contributions to the geography of Brazil . Gottfried Pfeifer on his 70th birthday (=  Heidelberg Geographical Works . Volume 34 ). Self-published by Geogr. Inst., Heidelberg 1971.
  • Gottfried Georg Pfeifer: Contributions to the cultural geography of the New World: selected works . Festschrift for the 80th birthday (=  small geographical writings . Volume 2 ). Reimer, Berlin 1981.

Others

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book. Membership directory of all old men. As of October 1, 1937. Hanover 1937, p. 131.
  2. ↑ 1928: " Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Fund"; In 1929 it was incorporated into the entire complex of the Rockefeller Foundations
  3. ^ NS-Verlag, often referred to as Goebbels ' house publisher
personal data
SURNAME Pfeifer, Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfeifer, Gottfried Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1985
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau