Horst Kopp

Horst Kopp (born May 12, 1943 in Dresden ) is a retired German geographer and former university professor in the fields of cultural geography and oriental research .

biography

Kopp studied geography and mathematics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . In 1972 he was awarded a Dr. rer. nat. doctorate and habilitation in 1979 with the thesis Agriculturalography of the Arab Republic of Yemen .

From 1979 he was professor at the Geographical Institute of the University of Tübingen (Orient, Economic and Social Geography) and for twelve years scientific coordinator in the Collaborative Research Center 19 of the DFG ( Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East ).

From 1981 to 1984 he headed the interdisciplinary research project Development Processes in Space, Economy and Society in the Arab Republic of Yemen , the results of which were published in eight volumes of the Yemen Studies . From 1991 to 2008 he held the chair for cultural geography and oriental research at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. From 1994 to 2002 he was the spokesman for the Bavarian research association FORAREA.

Kopp is a member of the advisory board of the German-Yemeni Society , chairman of the board of trustees of the German-Jordanian Society and first chairman of the Arab House of Nuremberg, founded in 2007 . In 2017 he was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.

Publications (selection)

• Agriculture in Yemen - From Mocha to Qat . In Werner Daum: Yemen . Umschau-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main, ISBN 3-7016-2251-5
• with Hans Becker and Volker Höhfeld : Coffee from Arabia. The change in the meaning of a world economic good and its settlement-geographical consequence on the dry line of ecumenism. (Series: Geography Knowledge. Series of publications for research and practice. Issue 46). Wiesbaden 1979.
• Editor of: Geography Yemen . Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-89500-500-2

literature

• Horst Kopp, Abdurahman Maho Aves (Hrsg.): Yemen (North) on the move: tendencies of economic, cultural and political development. (Country seminar of the Institute for Scientific Cooperation, Tübingen in cooperation with the German-Arab Society, Bonn) Olms, Hildesheim 1988, p. 117 (short vita)
• Walter Habel: Who is who? . The German who's who. P. 773

Web links

• Former employee of the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Arab House Nuremberg
• Society for Asian Art and Culture eV (Lecture overview 2012) accessed on March 27, 2017. (archived at WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6pHJJWZzE )
• Peter A. Wilderer, Edward D. Schroeder, Horst Kopp (Eds.): Global Sustainability: The Impact of Local Cultures, A New Perspective for Science and Engineering, Economics and Politics , XII.