Heinrich Gutersohn

Heinrich Gutersohn (born October 14, 1899 in Zurich ; † October 20, 1996 there ) was a Swiss geographer .

After training as a teacher, Gutersohn initially worked as an actuary , and from 1927 to 1941 as a secondary teacher in Zurich. He also studied geography, in 1931 he received his doctorate at the University of Zurich , and in 1936 his habilitation followed. From 1941 to 1971 Heinrich Gutersohn was a full professor at the ETH Zurich .

Gutersohn was head of the Institute for Local, Regional and National Planning at the ETH, a member of the Federal Commission for the Planning of the National Road Network and a member of the Swiss Commission for UNESCO .

The University of Geneva made him an honorary doctorate in 1966 .

literature

• Urban Schertenleib: Gutersohn, Heinrich. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Dieter Steiner : Heinrich Gutersohn 1899–1996. Geographical thinking between tradition and modernity: contradicting or complementary? In: Geographica Helvetica . tape 52 , no. 2 , 1997, p. 39-46 ( geogr-helv.net [PDF]).
• Ceremony for Prof. Dr. Heinrich Gutersohn (=  work from the Geographical Institute of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich . Volume 51 ). Geographical Institute of the ETH, Zurich 1969 (from: Geographica Helvetica, Volume 24, No. 3, 1969).