Jürgen Bähr
Jürgen Bähr (born October 31, 1940 in Kassel ; † February 26, 2014 ) was a German geographer . From 1977 to 2006 he was full professor for urban and population geography at the University of Kiel . Particular attention was paid to Bähr's development of a model of the Latin American city.
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Bähr studied geography and mathematics at the Philipps University in Marburg . In 1967 he received his doctorate in Marburg with a thesis on Culture Geographical changes in the farm area of South West Africa Dr. rer. nat. and passed the state examination for higher teaching qualifications in geography and mathematics. From 1967 to 1973 he was a research assistant, academic councilor or senior councilor at the Geographical Institute of the University of Bonn , where he received his habilitation in geography in 1973 with Wilhelm Lauer , a student of Carl Troll . The topic of the habilitation thesis was migration in the great north of Chile .
From 1973 to 1975 he worked as a private lecturer at the Geography Institute of the University of Bonn . From 1975 Bähr was Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Mannheim until he became Professor of Geography at the University of Kiel in 1977 , where he took over the Chair of Urban and Population Geography . In 2006 he retired. He passed away in February 2014.
Fonts (selection)
- with Winfried Golte: The Lower Rhine ridge from Xanten to Kleve (= Rhenish landscapes. Issue 4). Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection, Cologne 1974.
- Population geography: Distribution and dynamics of the population in a global, national and regional perspective (= UTB . 1249). Ulmer, Stuttgart 1983. (5th, completely revised edition. 2010, ISBN 978-3-8252-1249-0 )
- with Ulrich Jürgens : Urban Geography 2. Regional Urban Geography. City structures and city types. Westermann, Braunschweig 2005, ISBN 3-14-160292-1 .
Model of the Latin American city
- Newer development tendencies of Latin American cities. In: Geographical Rundschau . Volume 28, 1976, pp. 125-133.
- with Günter Mertins : Ideal schema of the socio-spatial differentiation of Latin American cities. In: Geographical Journal. Volume 69, 1981, pp. 1-33.
- Basic structures of the modern big city in Latin America. In: W. Reinhard, P. Waldmann (Ed.): North and South in America. 1, Freiburg 1992, pp. 194-211.
- with Günter Mertins: The Latin American city. In: Ways of Research. Volume 288, 1995.
- with Axel Borsdorf and Michael Janoschka : The dynamics of urban structural change in Latin America in the model of the Latin American city. In: Geographica Helvetica . Volume 57 (4), 2002, pp. 300-310.
Web links
- Jürgen Bähr on the website of the University of Kiel
Individual evidence
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SURNAME | Bähr, Jürgen |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geographer, professor of geography |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1940 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |
DATE OF DEATH | February 26, 2014 |