Horst Mensching

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Horst G. Mensching (born June 5, 1921 in Möllbergen ; † February 19, 2008 in Hamburg ) was a German geographer and geomorphologist and professor at the University of Hamburg .

Life

Mensching was the son of a teacher and after his military service as a pilot in the Second World War he studied geography (as well as geology and chemistry) in Göttingen and received his doctorate there in 1949 with Julius Büdel with the dissertation of gravel meadows and floodplains in the Lower Saxony mountainous region . Then he was Büdel's assistant in Göttingen and followed him to Würzburg in 1952, where he completed his habilitation in the same year with the thesis Morphological Studies on the High Atlas in Morocco . It was based on intensive field research in Morocco, where he mainly researched the Quaternary geology of the High Atlas (glaciation in the Pleistocene, rivers, climate history). In 1958 he became an associate professor in Würzburg and in 1962 a full professor of geography at the Technical University in Hanover and from 1974 a full professor in Hamburg. From 1976 to 1978 he was director of the Institute for Geography and Economic Geography. In 1985 he retired.

He mainly dealt with Africa, for example desertification in the Sahel zone.

In 1974 he became a member of the Leopoldina and the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen , in 1979 a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and 1986 honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences . In 1995 he received an honorary doctorate in Würzburg. He was also the recipient of the Franz von Hauer Medal of the Austrian Geographical Society (1998) and the Eduard Rüppell Medal of the Frankfurt Geographical Society .

Fonts

  • Gravel fields and floodplains in the Lower Saxony mountainous region, Göttinger Geographische Abhandlungen 4, 1950
  • with Jürgen Hövermann , Fritz Fezer: Studies from the low mountain ranges Harz, Black Forest, Werratal, studies on the periglacial phenomena in Central Europe 1, Göttinger Geographische Abhandlungen 14, Geographisches Institut Universität Göttingen 1953
  • Morphological studies in the High Atlas of Morocco: a contribution to the geomorphology and climate change of the Quaternary in North Africa, Würzburger Geographische Arbeit 1953
  • The Quaternary in the mountains of Morocco: geomorphological studies compiled into a profile from the Mediterranean to the Sahara, Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen, Gotha 1955
  • Morocco: the landscapes in the Maghreb, Geographical Handbooks, Heidelberg 1957
  • (with Horst-Günter Wagner, who did his doctorate in 1960 ): Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 152 Würzburg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. →  Online map (PDF; 5.3 MB)
  • Editor: Piedmont plains and sand-formations in arid and humid tropic and subtropic regions, Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie 1970
  • Publisher: The landscape at the Porta Westfalica, a geographical excursion guide, 2 volumes, yearbook of the Geographical Society of Hanover, 1971
  • Editor: Contributions to the geomorphology of the Arid Zone, Journal of Geomorphology 1978 (Symposium of the German Working Group for Geomorphology)
  • Tunisia: a geographic study of the country, Scientific Book Society, 3rd edition 1979
  • The Sahel Zone: Natural Potential and Problems of Its Use, Aulis Verlag 1986
  • with Eugen Wirth : Fischer regional studies of North Africa and the Middle East, Fischer TB 1989
  • Desertification: a global problem of ecological devastation in the arid regions of the world, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1990

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Horst Mensching at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 14, 2017.
  2. ^ Frankfurter Geographische Gesellschaft: Honors . In: Frankfurter Geographische Hefte . tape 57 , p. 67-68 .
personal data
SURNAME Mensching, Horst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mensching, Horst G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Möllbergen
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 2008
Place of death Hamburg