Gunnar Hoppe

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Ernst Gunnar Hoppe (born December 24, 1914 in Skällvik , † January 24, 2005 in Solna ) was a Swedish geographer and geomorphologist .

Life

Gunnar Hoppe studied at Uppsala University from 1931, received his doctorate in Uppsala in 1945 and taught at Uppsala University as a lecturer in geography until the end of 1953. On January 1, 1954, he was appointed to succeed Hans Wilhelmsson Ahlmann as Professor of Physical Geography at Stockholm University, where he subsequently worked until his retirement on December 31, 1980. Gunnar Hoppe was Vice-Rector from 1966 to 1974 and Rector of this university from 1974 to 1978 .

As a physical geographer, Gunnar Hoppe has particularly researched the erosion effects of the Ice Age glaciers in the Scandinavian mountains. Since Scandinavia was under an all-covering ice mass during the high glacial period, a whole series of specific forms of deposits occurred during the late glacial ice retreat, which had been formed by the melting ice and the meltwater flows. Gunnar Hoppe examined these forms, especially in central Sweden , but also in other parts of Scandinavia, on Iceland and in Spitzbergen , structured the various forms and, as an important basis for further research into the paleoclimate , reconstructed the course of the late glacial ice retreat.

After his retirement, Hoppe was from 1981 to 1991 an executive member of the science foundation Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse founded by Knut Agathon Wallenberg and his wife Alice , the largest private research grant in Sweden.

Gunnar Hoppe was admitted to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1964 and a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in the Geosciences Section in 1968 . In 1965 he was elected a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1990 he became a member of the Academia Europaea . The Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) elected him a member of the Geosciences and Mining Sciences Department .

In 1987 he was awarded the Vega Medal by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography . A total of six universities awarded him honorary doctorates , including the University of Linköping in 1992 and the University of Iceland on December 9, 2004.

literature

  • Horst Hagedorn : Gunnar Hoppe December 24, 1914– January 24, 2005 . In: Yearbook of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 2005, pp. 332–334 ( digitized version )

Web links

Notes and individual references

  1. ^ Member entry by Gunnar Hoppe at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 10, 2020
  2. ^ Member entry by Gunnar Hoppe at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on April 10, 2020.
  3. ^ Membership directory: Gunnar Hoppe. Academia Europaea, accessed April 12, 2020 .
  4. ^ Polish Academy of Sciences - Deceased Members: Deceased in 2005
  5. ↑ Honorary doctors at Linköping University , accessed April 12, 2020
  6. ^ University of Iceland Honorary Degrees: The University of Iceland honorary degree recipients, 2000-2009
personal data
SURNAME Hoppe, Gunnar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoppe, Ernst Gunnar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish geographer and geomorphologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Skällvik
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 2005
Place of death Solna