Hans Bobek

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Hans Bobek (born May 17, 1903 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee , † February 15, 1990 in Vienna ) was an Austrian geographer .

Live and act

After studying geography and completing his doctorate at the University of Innsbruck with Johann Sölch , an early student of Albrecht Penck , Bobek was a professor at the geographic institutes of the University of Freiburg and until his retirement at the University of Vienna . He significantly shaped the social geography in German-speaking - what a great content proximity to cultural geography ( cultural geography ) Anglo-American imprint had - and gained through his work with the Islamic world international recognition. During the Second World War he worked in the military geography department of the Army High Command.

He developed a hierarchically arranged representation of basic types of geographically relevant societies ( cultural level theory ). The basic types range from settlements as social units through states to cultural empires . Bobek linked social and economic aspects with the analysis of settlement structures.

Hans Bobek was honorary president of the Austrian Geographical Society . In recognition of his services, the society has been awarding the Hans Bobek Prize annually since 1991 for outstanding dissertation or habilitation theses . In addition, Bobek was a member of the Austrian and Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1978 the Ruhr University Bochum awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 1981 he received the Busk Medal from the Royal Geographical Society .

Bobek was a supporter of the NS-affine theories of Hugo Hassinger , about whom he wrote several laudatory biographies in standard works of the subject. Bobek worked as a so-called "specialist advisor" for social geography at the work science institute AWI of the DAF .

In 1991 his widow donated the Hans Bobek Prize, a sponsorship award to the Austrian Geographical Society.

family

On July 27, 1929 he married the English teacher Helene nee Procopovici (1903–1976), whom he knew from his studies and who later worked in the Foreign Office during his time in Berlin. There she was hired from April 1941 to February 1942 as a so-called scientific auxiliary worker, was considered a higher service in her work, but received a mostly fixed-term contract. The son Hans Peter (* 1931) emerged from the marriage. In 1978, Bobek married Maria Fesl for the second time, with whom he had carried out research and published publications.

Publications

Monographs (selection):

  • The central locations of Austria 1973 . For spatial research d. Austrian Akad. D. Wiss., Vienna 1975.
  • with Elisabeth Lichtenberger : Vienna. Structural design and development . 1966, 2nd edition 1978.
  • Iran: Problems of an underdeveloped country of ancient culture . Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bonn 1967.
  • Atlas of the Republic of Austria. (Ed. by the Institute for Urban and Regional Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences under the overall scientific direction of Hans Bobek, partial deliveries 1951–1979 / 80) Vienna.
  • Social space formations using the example of the Middle East . Publishing house d. Office f. Regional studies, Landshut 1950.
  • with Maria Fesl: The system of central places in Austria: an empirical study . Böhlau , 1978.

Articles (selection):

  • Hans Bobek: Position and meaning of the social geography . In: Geography. Issue 2, Bonn 1948, pp. 118–125.

literature

  • Elisabeth Lichtenberger: Hans Bobek. In: Almanac of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for 1989/90. 140th year, Vienna 1990, pp. 351–364.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 1, 1992, p. 402.
  2. ^ W. Schuder (Ed.): Kürschner's German learned calendar. 15th edition. de Gruyter, Berlin 1987, p. 374.
  3. ↑ Full list of medals and awards recipients from 1970–2013
  4. ↑ See Neue Deutsche Biographie , Lemma Hassinger, Bibliography at the end of the lemma. Link there in the Wikipedia article Hassinger
  5. ^ Annual geographic report from Austria . Geographical Institute of the University of Vienna, 1991, p. 10 ( google.de [accessed on May 8, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Peter Grupp, Germany Foreign Office Historical Service: Biographical Manual of the German Foreign Service, 1871-1945: AF . Schoeningh, 2000, ISBN 978-3-506-71840-2 , pp. 182 ( google.de [accessed on May 8, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Ursula Müller, Christiane Scheidemann: Skilful, sent and dispatched: women in the diplomatic service . Olzog, 2000, ISBN 978-3-7892-8041-2 , pp. 56 ( google.de [accessed on May 8, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Bobek, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt am Wörthersee
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1990
Place of death Vienna