Hermann Lautensach

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Hermann Friedrich Christian Lautensach (born September 20, 1886 in Gotha / Thuringia , † May 20, 1971 in Wildbad ) was a German geographer .

Career

Lautensach studied physics, mathematics and chemistry in Göttingen and Berlin . In 1910 he did his doctorate under Albrecht Penck , and then went into school. In 1927 he took leave of absence as a teacher in order to acquire his habilitation from Fritz Klute on the subject of the coasts of Portugal in 1928 . Together with Karl Haushofer , Fritz Terner and Erich Obst he became co-editors of the journal for geopolitics . In 1932 he went to the University of Giessen as an adjunct professor. In 1933 he undertook a long train journey via Russia and Siberia to Korea, where he extensively toured the country for eight months in about 15,000 km.

In 1934 he became associate professor at the TH Braunschweig , in order to work in 1935 at the University of Greifswald as director of the Geographical Institute. In 1947 he took up a job at the TH Stuttgart .

As one of the most famous German geographers, his work was associated with many honors. He was an honorary doctor of the University of Coimbra in Portugal and a member of the Leopoldina (1939) and the Austrian Academy of Sciences (1958) and was an honorary member of many domestic and foreign geographical societies.

One of his ancestors was the painter and organist Paulus Lautensack (1478–1554), who last worked in Nuremberg .

According to him, which is Lautensach'sche Transformations named.

Works

  • The deepening of the Ticino area (Plenck's Geographical Treatises, New Series, Book 1), 1912
  • General geography. As an introduction to geography. A handbook to the Stieler , 1926, 1944
  • Sydow-Wagner's methodical school atlas , published as of the 19th edition in 1930
  • Portugal , 1932/1937
    • Part I: The country as a whole
    • Part II: The Portuguese Landscapes
  • Spain and Portugal , (Handbook of Geographical Sciences, Volume Southeast and Southern Europe), 1934
  • Korea. A geography based on personal travels and literature , 1945
  • Korea. Land, People, Fate , 1950
  • The Geographical Change of Form, Studies on Landscape Systematics , 1952
  • The Mormon country as an example of a socio-geographical area , 1953
  • On the terms type and individual in geographical research , 1953
  • Geography Atlas , 1955
  • Cartographic studies. Haak Festschrift with Hans-Richard Fischer, 1957
  • Bremen Atlas , 1959
  • Nature and methods of geographic science , 1967

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personal data
SURNAME Lautensach, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lautensach, Hermann Friedrich Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH 20th May 1971
Place of death Wildbad