Hans Kinzl

Hans Kinzl (born October 5, 1898 in St. Florian am Inn ; † October 23, 1979 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian geographer and mountain researcher .

Life and research

Hans Kinzl, eldest son of a wealthy farmer, attended the Episcopal Gymnasium Petrinum in Linz . After graduating from high school , which he passed during the First World War in May 1916, and doing military service as a one-year volunteer , he studied geography and history at the University of Innsbruck and received his doctorate in 1923. From 1919 he was a member of the Catholic student union AV Austria Innsbruck . In 1928 he went with his teacher Johann Sölch , himself a disciple Albrecht Penck , to Heidelberg , where he Wilhelm Salomon-Calvi supported and he 1931 on glacier fluctuations in the Alps habilitated .

As a result of his research on glaciers, he was invited by the German and Austrian Alpine Association for the first expedition to the Cordillera Blanca (Peru) in 1932 . In the years 1936 and 1939-41, Kinzl led the second and third expeditions to the Peruvian Andes of the now German Alpine Club . The resulting maps contributed to the fact that the Cordillera Blanca became the most researched tropical high mountains in terms of glaciology and settlement. Kinzl always remained loyal to the Alpine Club; 1958–1967 and 1971/72 was first chairman of the Austrian Alpine Club . From Raimund von Klebelsberg, Kinzl took over the management of the AV glacier measurement service (1964–1979), the publication of the book series "Schlern-Schriften" (1967–1975) and - together with Herfried Hoinkes - the editor of the Zeitschrift für Gletscherkunde und Glacialgeologie (1970–1975). 1978).

In 1935, Hans Kinzl took over as the successor to the Hettner student Friedrich Metz - Metz was relieved of service at the University of Innsbruck in 1934 - the management of the Geographical Institute in Innsbruck and was appointed full professor in 1942. This career leap during the National Socialist era was noticed by the university's “denazification commission” after the end of World War II; Kinzl was released in the winter semester 1945/46. However, since Kinzl was classified as "not burdened", he was able to resume his work in the following semester. Hans Kinzl was Dean of the Philosophical Faculty in the academic year 1950/51 and Rector of the University of Innsbruck in 1958/59 .

Kinzl had an extraordinary influence on the development of the Institute for Geography up to his retirement in 1968, both as director and as researcher and teacher. Among other things, he founded the Innsbruck School of (historical) population geography in the 1940s , which is based on the evaluation of church registers and was continued by his student and successor Franz Fliri . Kinzl got to know the church records as valuable sources during his studies in the Tyrolean settlement of Pozuzo in the tropical rainforest of Peru . Kinzl also encouraged several of his students to pursue an academic career, such as Helmut Heuberger (Salzburg), Adolf Leidlmair (Innsbruck), Peter Meusburger (Heidelberg), Herbert Paschinger (Graz), Gernot Patzelt (Innsbruck), Hugo Penz (Innsbruck) and Ernest Troger ( Vienna).

In the last 20 years of his life, Hans Kinzl dealt with historical cartography, in particular with the Atlas Tyrolensis published by Peter Anich and Blasius Hueber in the 18th century .

On the occasion of the death of Kinzl, the Austrian Alpine Club mourned its (until then) only honorary member.

Awards

Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in Halle
Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales in Lima / Peru
Silver medal for services to the Republic of Austria
Decoration of honor of the state of Tyrol
Honorary member of the Austrian Geographical Society and recipient of the Franz von Hauer Medal
Honorary doctorate from the University of Hamburg for natural sciences
Name giver for the Kinzl Crests in the Antarctic (since 1960)
Ring of Honor of the City of Innsbruck (1961)

Fonts

Breakthrough valleys on the southern edge of the Bohemian Massif in Upper Austria . Publications of the Institute for East Bavarian Homeland Research in Passau, Volume 1, ZDB -ID 143845-1 . Publishing house of the Institute for East Bavarian Homeland Research, Passau 1926. - Full text online .
Contributions to the history of glacier fluctuations in the Eastern Alps, 1929
The largest post-glacial advances in the Swiss Alps and in the M * Montblanc region, 1932
With the Germans in Pozuzo, 1934
Current and Ice Age glaciation in the Cordillera Blanca, 1935
The anthropogeographical importance of the glaciers and the artificial irrigation in the Peruvian Andes, 1944
Mountain farmers question and mountain resettlement in Tyrol, 1945
On the population-biological situation of the mountain farmers, 1948
Form observations in the run-up to the Alpine glaciers, 1950
The glaciers as witnesses to the climate, 1958
Changes in the Alpine population, 1958
The map of Tyrol by Warmund Ygl 1604/05, 1962
South Tyrol - geographically speaking, 1965
Peter Anich 1723–1766, 1976

literature

Herbert Paschinger : Pictures of Life. University professor Dr. Hans Kinzl. For the 50th birthday . In: Franz Pfeffer (Ed.): Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter , issue 4 (October – December 1948). Office of the o.-ö. Landesregierung, Linz 1948, pp. 364–368, full text online (PDF; 350 kB) in the OoeGeschichte.at forum (contains a comprehensive directory of Kinzl's scientific work).
Dietmar Assmann: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hans Kinzl on his 75th birthday . In: Aldemar Schiffkorn (Red.): Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter , Issue 3/4 from 1973 (XXVII. Year). Landesinstitut für Volksbildung und Heimatpflege in Oberösterreich (Ed.), Linz 1973, p. 256 f, full text online (PDF; 140 kB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
Dietmar Assmann (as DA): Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hans Kinzl - 80 years . In: Aldemar Schiffkorn (Red.): Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter , issue 3/4 from 1978 (XXXII. Year). Landesinstitut für Volksbildung und Heimatpflege in Oberösterreich (Ed.), Linz 1978, p. 341 f, full text online (PDF; 220 kB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
Franz Fliri : Hans Kinzl - life and work. In: Journal for Glacier Science and Glacial Geology (ZGG) . Volume 15.1, ISSN 0044-2836 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 1979, pp. 2-5.
Alexander Pinwinkler : Historical population research. Germany and Austria in the 20th Century, Wallstein Verlag: Göttingen 2014, here especially pp. 174–203.

Web links

"Hans Kinzl (1898–1979) and the Institute for Geography at the University of Innsbruck" (PDF; 741 kB), Hugo Penz
"Hans Kinzl. In the light of his correspondence, curriculum vitae and personal memories ” (PDF; 858 kB), Adolf Leidlmair
Entry on Hans Kinzl in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Literature by and about Hans Kinzl in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Lia Hörmann (Red.): The Austrian Alpine Association mourns its only honorary member. Univ.-Prof. em. GDR. hc Hans Kinzl In: Messages from the Austrian Alpine Club . Volume 11/12 from 1979 (full year CIV). Oesterreichischer Alpenverein, Innsbruck 1979, p. 203. (Online at ALO ).

Remarks

↑ Dissertation published in 1927 in the yearbook of the Federal Geological Institute as On the spread of quartzite conglomerates in western Upper Austria and in neighboring Bavaria . - Full text online (PDF; 1.5 MB).

personal data
SURNAME	Kinzl, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian geographer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 5, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Florian am Inn
DATE OF DEATH	October 23, 1979
Place of death	innsbruck

[2] Lia Hörmann (Red.): The Austrian Alpine Association mourns its only honorary member. Univ.-Prof. em. GDR. hc Hans Kinzl In: Messages from the Austrian Alpine Club . Volume 11/12 from 1979 (full year CIV). Oesterreichischer Alpenverein, Innsbruck 1979, p. 203. (Online at ALO ).

[1] Dissertation published in 1927 in the yearbook of the Federal Geological Institute as On the spread of quartzite conglomerates in western Upper Austria and in neighboring Bavaria . - Full text online (PDF; 1.5 MB).