Johann-Bernhard Haversath

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Johann-Bernhard Haversath (born May 8, 1948 in Coesfeld ) is a German geography didactic and emeritus professor for geography didactics at the University of Gießen .

Life

Haversath grew up in Coesfeld, attended the Nepomucenum high school there and studied geography, Latin and German at the universities of Münster and Würzburg. He worked as a teacher from 1973 to 1983, first in Würzburg (Wirsberg and Matthias Grünewald Gymnasium) (1973-1975) and Ebern (Friedrich Rückert Gymnasium) (1975-1981), then as a senior teacher at the ETA Hoffmann Gymnasium in Bamberg (1981-1983). He was a student of Helmut hunters in 1980 with a thesis on the agricultural landscape in the Roman Empire of Germany (1st-4th century. N. Chr.) At the University of Wuerzburg to Dr. rer. nat. PhD. In 1983 he took up a position for geography didactics at the University of Passau ; there he was appointed director of studies in 1989. In 1993, encouraged by Klaus Rother, the habilitation followed with a thesis on the development of rural settlements in the southern Bavarian Forest at the University of Passau and the appointment to Dr. phil. habil. as well as a private lecturer. In 1994 he was appointed C4 professor for geography didactics at the University of Giessen after being appointed to professorships from the universities of Augsburg and Giessen . He retired at the end of 2013.

Haversath has been married since 1971 and has three children.

Act

Haversath is a geography educator and human geographer . Didactically and scientifically, he deals with the areas of Eastern and Southeastern Europe . The focus of research is the analysis of the current transformation processes, especially in Greece, Romania and Moldova, as well as the history of the discipline of geography teaching, travel education and international textbook research.

From 1998 to 2005 he was co-editor of the magazine “geographie heute” and from 2006 to the end of 2013 he published the magazine Geographie and its Didaktik . From 2007 to the end of 2018 he was a member of the scientific advisory board of this journal, which has been called Zeitschrift für Geographiedidaktik / Journal of Geography Education since 2014. His students Carina Peter and Sandra Sprenger received a professorship in geography education in Marburg and Hamburg, respectively.

Haversath was first and second chairman of the board of directors of the Association of German School Geographers , Landesverband Hessen, from 1996 to 2012 , he was on the board of the university association "Geography and its Didactics" (1998 to 2006) and from 2001 to 2005 in the presidium of the German Society for Geography . He has also been a member of the advisory board of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Braunschweig since 2008 . Since 2018 he has been an advisory board member of the Forum Cella Principum e. V. (Fürstenzell).

Fonts (selection)

  • A short history of the Bavarian Forest. Human - space - time. Regensburg 2015. (3rd edition 2020)
  • Work and exercise book geography - learning with maps: Germany. Seelze 2006.
  • Greece. Space-time change in the south of the Balkan Peninsula (= Perthes country profiles. ). Perthes, Gotha and Stuttgart 2004.
  • Germany - The North (= The Geographical Seminar. ). Braunschweig 1997.
  • The development of the rural settlements in the southern Bavarian Forest. (= Passau writings on geography, issue 14) Passau 1994.
  • Mills in Franconian Switzerland. (= Franconian Switzerland - Landscape and Culture, Volume 4) Erlangen 1987.
  • with Ernst Struck : Passau and the land of the abbey in historical maps and plans. (= Passau writings on geography, volume 3) Passau 1986.

Editorships

  • with Ambros Brucker and Andreas Schöps: geography lessons. 102 keywords. Baltmannsweiler 2018.
  • with Alois Kapsner and Walter Berchtold: Fürstenzell: Culture, People, Nature. From the monastery village to the market town. Salzweg 2017, ISBN 978-3-939723-59-2 .
  • Geography didactics. Theory - Topics - Research. Braunschweig 2012.
  • Romania and Moldova. Transformation, globalization, fragmentation (= Gießen geographic manuscripts. Volume 3). Giessen 2011.
  • Arab worlds. To differentiate a large region (= geography today. Volume 227). Seelze 2005.
  • Young people in Germany (= geography today. Volume 206). Seelze 2002.

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personal data
SURNAME Haversath, Johann-Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Coesfeld