Gustav Stratil-Sauer

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Gustav Stratil-Sauer (born May 26, 1894 in Fulnek , North Moravia , † November 25, 1975 in Klosterneuburg ) was an Austrian geographer .

Life

Gustav Stratil-Sauer was born as the son of the school director Domitius Stratil and his wife Luise Jung, both of whom had also made a name for themselves.

Due to the outbreak of the First World War, he broke off his studies (law and musicology). After four years of war, during which he participated as an artillery officer in all twelve Isonzo battles and was wounded several times, after 1918 he was a co-founder of the Aid Association German Bohemia and Sudetenland and began studying geography, geology, mineralogy and history, initially at the universities of Vienna and Berlin, later at the University of Breslau. There he worked in his last years as an assistant at the Geography Institute with Wilhelm Volz and moved with him after his doctorate (1922) as an assistant at the University of Leipzig (1923-1931). In Leipzig in 1927 he married Lotte Buchheim (1904–1975).

In 1937 he completed his habilitation at the University of Leipzig and in 1939 at the University of Vienna, where he received a teaching position. After the Second World War, in which he took part in the Air Force, he returned to the University of Vienna, was appointed university professor in 1954 and taught there until his retirement in 1964.

With the intention of helping science and its associations in his country, Gustav Stratil-Sauer founded the Notring der Scientific Associations of Austria (today: Association of Austrian Scientific Societies ) and the Working Group for Art and Science , to which he was Secretary General until 1967 Board. His favorite pastime was composing. Some of his compositions have also been performed.

He was buried in the Weidlinger Friedhof in Klosterneuburg.

Research trips

The main points of his work as a geographer were the numerous trips that he made in z. T. led remote areas and provided him with the material for his scientific work: 1924–1926 via the Eastern Pontus (Turkey) and Persia to Kabul (Afghanistan), in 1928 through Poland to Russia to the Volga , in 1929 through Hungary and Yugoslavia to Albania , from 1931 to 1933 through the Balkans and the Orient to the Lut desert (report in the travelogue Battle for the Desert , written together with his wife ), 1942 Turkey (Trebizond), 1943 to Macedonia and Albania, 1956 to Beijing , Chongqing and Shanghai and 1957 , 1958, 1959 and 1964 to the Eastern Pontus (Northeast Turkey).

Works

The geographical work of Gustav Stratil-Sauer shows in factual relation geomorphological, economic, traffic, settlement and population geographical work and includes in spatial terms areas of the Danube and Sudeten region, Southeast Europe, China and above all the Middle East . It comprises over 100 scientific papers and around 800 articles in specialist journals; He wrote 14 articles on scientific compilations, including for the large Illustrierte Länderkunde published by Bertelsmann-Verlag (1963, China). Up until old age he worked for the Fischer-Lexikon Allgemeine Geographie at Fischer-Verlag, Frankfurt 1959 (hydrogeography, climate).

Awards and honors

In addition to numerous medals for bravery from the two world wars (13), Gustav Stratil-Sauer was awarded the Cross of Honor for Science and Art 1st Class (1960), the Gold Medal of Honor of the City of Vienna (1964), the Great Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria (1967) and the Great Cross of Merit of the FRG (1964). In 1975 he was awarded the Great Sudeten German Culture Prize.

literature

  • G. Stratil-Sauer: Experiences along Russian country roads. Leipzig, Verlag Deutsche Buchwerkstätten 1931.
  • L. Stratil-Sauer, G. Stratil-Sauer: Battle for the desert - A report on our trips to the East Persian Lut. R. Hobbing, Berlin 1934.
  • G. Stratil-Sauer: Ride and Shackle - With the motorcycle from Leipzig to Afghanistan. August Scherl Verlag, Berlin 1927. Online version .
  • G. Stratil-Sauer: Meschhed - A city is building on the fatherland of Iran. Ernst Staneck publishing house, Leipzig 1937.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Weidling parish cemetery book. (PDF) Weidling Parish, December 25, 2018, accessed on March 22, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Stratil-Sauer, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Fulnek
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1975
Place of death Klosterneuburg