Helmut Wohlschlägl
Helmut Wohlschlägl (born August 28, 1949 ) is an Austrian geographer and geography educator. Wohlschlägl is a university professor i. R. for regional geography at the University of Vienna .
Career
After studying geography and history at the University of Vienna , Wohlschlägl passed the teaching examination. Since 1974 he has been a research assistant at the Institute for Geography at the chair for human and population geography with Ernest Troger (1926–1988). He received his doctorate in 1984 with a thesis in the field of geographic tourism and leisure research ("Guest structure and spatial distribution of guest groups in a center of long-term recreational tourism - Krumpendorf am Wörthersee") and completed his habilitation in 1988 in the fields of human geography and specialist geography didactics at the university Vienna with a geographic habilitation thesis from the field of Third World research in Southeast Asia (“Course, spatial differentiation and determinants of the decline in fertility in Thailand - a geographic case study against the background of theoretical concepts and empirical findings on the change in generative behavior in the third World.")
In 1991 he was appointed associate professor for regional geography at the Institute for Geography at the University of Vienna (successor to Ernest Troger), with the task of overseeing the subject didactics. Here one of his main research areas was migration research, Southeast Asia; later, however, influenced by Wolfgang Sitte , the subject didactics of geography and economics , which he also significantly promoted as head of the institute in the following decades and contributed to its positioning in Austria. Since 1999 he has also been the editor of an eight-volume Austrian GW textbook series ( Durchblick ).
In 2014 he retired and was elected President of the Austrian Geographical Society . A detailed commendation article on his 70th birthday can be found in the Austrian magazine "GW-Lehr" H. 155/2019
Publications
- List of publications by Helmut Wohlschlägl
- Publications Helmut Wohlschlägl - holdings at the Vienna University Library
- Treatises on geography and regional research
- according to with K. Husa Ed .: Contributions to population and social geography
- according to with H. Hitz Ed .: Eastern Austria and neighboring regions . Excursion guide to the German Geographers' Day 2009 • Volume 3
- Series of publications according to with Ch. Vielhaber Hrsg .: materials for didactics of geography and economics
- W. Sitte, H. Wohlschlägl Hrsg .: School geography in change. Contributions to the reorganization of geography teaching in Austria. Viennese geographical study aids. Verlag A. Schendl Vienna, 1975, 306 pages
- H. Wohlschlägl, Ch. Sitte Hrsg .: "Geography and Economics" - teaching in Austria in the mid-eighties. Wolfgang Sitte for his 60th birthday. Special edition GW lessons no.23, 1986, 307 pages.
- W. Sitte, H. Wohlschlägl Hrsg.: Contributions to the didactics of geography and economics - lessons . Materials for the didactics of GW lessons, Vol. 16. Institute for Geography and Regional Research at the University of Vienna. 2001, 560 pages
- Helmut Wohlschlägl: A frontrunner when it comes to subject didactics in conversation with Christian Vielhaber. In: GW lessons H. 70 1998 pp. 11-21
Web links
- Website at the Institute for Geography and Regional Research at the University of Vienna
- Board of the Austrian Geographical Society
literature
- Husa Karl: Helmut Wohlschlägl - 60 years. In: Mitteilungen der Österreichische Geographische Gesellschaft vol. 151, Vienna 2009. pp. 347–352.
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Helmut Wohlschlägl 70 - A didactic entrepreneur, networker and impulse giver for GW lessons in Austria" - in GW lessons 155/2019 pp. 53-56
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wohlschlägl, Helmut |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian geographer and geography teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1949 |