Hartmut Readers

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Hartmut Leser (born November 23, 1939 in Naumburg (Saale) ) is a German physiogeographer and landscape ecologist .

Life

Readers graduated from high school in his hometown in 1958. He studied geography , geology , zoology and soil science from 1959 to 1961 at the Technical University of Stuttgart and from 1961 to 1965 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1965 he received his doctorate in Bonn under Carl Troll as Dr. rer. nat. From 1965 to 1969 he was Herbert Wilhelmy's research assistant at the Geographical Institute of the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen , where he also received his habilitation in 1969. In the same year he became a university lecturer, and in 1971 a scientific councilor and professor at theTechnical University of Hanover .

From 1973 until his retirement in 2005 he was full professor for physiogeography and landscape ecology and director of the Geographical Institute at the University of Basel .

His research areas are landscape ecology, methodology, geomorphology and cartography. Readers published over 400 essays and treatises in professional journals as well as festschriften, textbooks and compilations.

Honors (selection)

  • 1996: Pollichia badge in silver
  • 1999: Honorary member of the Geographical-Ethnological Society Basel
  • 1999: Gold Medal from the University of Warsaw
  • 2000: Dr. rer. nat. honorary of the University of Stuttgart
  • 2001: Honorary member of the Societas Geographica Polonica
  • 2008: Honorary member of the Swiss Geography Association

Fonts (selection)

  • Landscape Ecology (= UTB . Vol. 521). Ulmer, Stuttgart 1976; 4th, revised edition 1997, ISBN 3-8252-0521-5 .
  • With others: Diercke dictionary of ecology and environment. 2 volumes. Westermann, Braunschweig 1993.
  • As publisher: Westermann Lexicon Ecology & Environment. 2 volumes. Westermann, Braunschweig 1994.

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personal data
SURNAME Reader, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physiogeographer, landscape ecologist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Naumburg (Saale)