Julius Büdel

Julius Büdel (born August 8, 1903 in Molsheim , † August 28, 1983 in Würzburg ) was a German geographer with a focus on geomorphology .

He had a strong influence on geomorphological research in Germany, especially with his theses on the climatic genetic approach of relief analysis .

Stations

• 1928 doctorate in Vienna.
• 1951 Full Professor of Geography at the University of Würzburg .
• 1966/1967 rector of the University of Würzburg .
• 1974 initiator and from 1974 to 1978 chairman of the German Working Group for Geomorphology.
• In 1975 the Commission for Geomorphology of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences was set up at his request .

student

Büdel's doctoral students included in particular

• Horst Mensching (1949)
• Horst-Günter Wagner (1960, also looked after by Mensching)

Honors

• In Antarctica, an archipelago off the Antarctic Peninsula , the Büdel Islands , and a mountain on the South Shetland Islands , the Büdelberg , are named after Julius Büdel.
• Member of the Leopoldina since 1961
• In 1968 he received the Albrecht Penck Medal .
• 1969: Bavarian Order of Merit
• 1973: Alexander von Humboldt Medal from the Society for Geography in Berlin
• 1976 honorary member of the Geographical Society of Lübeck
• 1978 Weyprecht Medal from the German Society for Polar Research
• 1981: Victoria Medal from the Royal Geographical Society
• Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature and the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Works

• The morphological development of the southern Vienna Basin and its border. Berlin Geographical Works, Vol. 4. Berlin 1933.
• Climate geomorphology. 2nd, change Edition Berlin [u. a.]: Borntraeger, 1981 (1st edition 1977). ISBN 3-443-01017-2

literature

• Horst Hagedorn : Julius Büdel August 5, 1903 to August 28, 1983. In: Bavarian Academy of Sciences , yearbook 1984, Munich 1984, pp. 251-253.

Web links

• Literature by and about Julius Büdel in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Gerhard Stäblein: In memoriam Julius Büdel (1903–1983) . In: Die Erde 115, 1984, pp. 177-182.
2. ↑ Büdel Islands ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved January 25, 2015.
3. ↑ Reports on Polar Research No. 24 / November 1985