Herbert Louis (geographer)

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Herbert Louis (born March 12, 1900 in Berlin , † July 11, 1985 in Munich ) was a German geographer.

Career

Herbert Louis studied geography , geology and physics in Berlin. In 1923 he accompanied Ernst Nowack to research in Albania . In 1925 he received his doctorate with Albrecht Penck in Berlin with a thesis on Albania . From 1926 to 1928 he undertook geomorphological research in Bulgaria , which became the basis for his habilitation in Berlin in 1930.

Louis was a full professor in Ankara from 1935 , where he built up the Geography Institute. In 1943 he moved to the University of Cologne (as the successor to Franz Thorbecke ) . In 1952 he became professor and director of the Geographical Institute at the University of Munich . In 1965/66 he worked again as a visiting professor in Ankara. In 1968 he retired.

In addition to geomorphology (for example trunk stairs or piedmoon stairs) he dealt with the geography of Turkey and Southeastern Europe (Bulgaria, Albania), especially with the Quaternary history of Turkey. He wrote a textbook on geomorphology.

Awards

Louis was an honorary member of the German Quaternary Association as well as a member of the Leopoldina and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

  • 1978 Golden Ferdinand von Richthofen Medal of the Berlin Society

Fonts

  • Albania. A knowledge of the country mainly because of my own travels . Published by J. Engelhorn's successors in Stuttgart, Berlin 1927.
  • Morphological Studies in Southwest Bulgaria . Engelhorn, Stuttgart, 1930.
  • The natural vegetation of Anatolia, seen geographically , Geographische Abhandlungen, 3rd row, booklet 12, Stuttgart, Engelhorn 1939.
  • General geomorphology (with the collaboration of Klaus Fischer, picture and text part), 3rd edition, de Gruyter 1968 (textbook of general geography, founded by Erich Obst, volume 1).

literature

  • Herbert Lehmann: Herbert Louis . In: Geography . tape 19 , no. 1 , 1965, p. 2–6 , doi : 10.3112 / geography . 1965.01.01 .
  • Klaus Fischer: Herbert Louis (1900–1985) . In: Die Erde 116, 1985, H. 4, pp. 289-295.
  • Uwe Rust: Herbert Louis' contributions to the constitution of climatic geomorphology . In: Mitteilungen der Geographische Gesellschaft in München 71, 1986, pp. 47–56.
  • Ute Wardenga: "Observation is the basis of geography!" Herbert Louis as a regional surveyor, cartographer and geomorphologist . In: Mitteilungen der Geographische Gesellschaft in München 89, 2007, pp. 103-133.
  • Wolfgang Weischet: Herbert Louis. Life and work . In: Geographisches Taschenbuch 1989/1990, pp. 115–127.
  • Nicolas Ginsburger: Entre Obst et Chaput: influences européennes et création de l'école turque de géographie (1915-1943) . In: Günes Isiksel, Emmanuel Szurek (dir.): Turcs et Français. Une histoire culturelle (1860-1960) . PUR, Rennes 2014, pp. 251–270.
  • Nicolas Ginsburger: Deux collèges geographes en Anatolie? Parcours, méthodes et analyzes de terrains by professeurs Ernest Chaput and Herbert Louis en Turquie (1928-1939) . In: Revue germanique internationale 20, 2014, pp. 83–106.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Louis: Contributions to the regional studies of the Albanian Epirus . Stuttgart 1927.
  2. ^ Herbert Louis: Morphological Studies in Southwest Bulgaria . Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1930.
personal data
SURNAME Louis, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1985
Place of death Munich