Jürgen Hövermann
Jürgen Hövermann (born March 15, 1922 in Muschaken , East Prussia ) is a German professor of geography .
Life
Hövermann spent his youth in Lüneburg and later moved to Hillerse (Northeim) .
He received his doctorate in 1947 and completed his habilitation in 1951 at the University of Göttingen , where he worked from 1951 to 1960 as a private lecturer and adjunct professor. He followed a call to the Free University of Berlin and taught there from 1961 to 1972. He then returned to the University of Göttingen as a full professor of geography. In 1990 he retired.
Hövermann researched mainly in geomorphology , especially in the arid areas. In the 1960s he set up a research station in Bardaï ( Chad ). He also dealt with the geomorphology of the high mountains. He was one of the first western researchers to work in the Chinese part of the inner-Asian high mountains in the 1970s.
Fonts (selection)
- Morphological investigations in the middle Harz . - Göttingen: Geographer. Inst. D. Univ., 1949. - 80 p. (= Göttingen geographical treatises; 2)
- The development of settlement forms in the marshes of the Elb-Weser angle by Jürgen Hövermann from Verl. D. Office f. Regional Studies (1951)
- Geographical survey: the natural units on sheet 99 Göttingen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. → Online map (PDF; 4.1 MB)
Awards
- 1958: Medal honor University of Liège
- 1972: Member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society
- 1992: Gustav Nachtigal Medal of the Society for Geography
- 2004: Dr. hc Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg
literature
- Who's Who Vol. 31 - 1992, p. 585
- Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Vol. 1 3 - 1980, p. 1582
- Horst Hagedorn (Hrsg.): Festschrift for Jürgen Hövermann (= Würzburg geographical works . Volume 56 ). Self-published by the Institute for Geography, Würzburg 1982.
Web links
- Literature by and about Jürgen Hövermann in the catalog of the German National Library
- http://www.uni-gottingen.de/de/3240.html?cid=1677
Individual evidence
- ^ Negotiations of the Society for Geography in Berlin 1992 . In: The Earth . tape 124 , 1993, pp. 81-84 ( online ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hövermann, Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geographer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Muschaken , East Prussia |