Karl-Heinz Pfeffer
Karl-Heinz Pfeffer (born December 28, 1939 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German geographer .
Life
After studying natural sciences at the University of Frankfurt , he obtained his doctorate with a dissertation on the karst and glacial morphology of Abruzzo . The habilitation in the geosciences department at the University of Frankfurt is based on a comparative study of karst landscapes in Jamaica , Apulia and Cyrenaica .
In 1972 Pfeffer took over a professorship in Frankfurt am Main and then moved to Cologne University in 1975 . From 1986 he held the Chair in for Physical Geography at the Geographical Institute of the University of Tübingen until in April 2004 emeritus was. He is currently editor-in-chief of the journal for geomorphology .
Memberships
- Member of the Commission for Geomorphology of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
- Honorary member of the Association of German Cave and Karst Researchers
- 2002 Honorary Doctorate from the Faculty of Science at the University of Szeged in Hungary
- Member and spokesman of the Southeast Asia working group of the German Geography Society
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl-Heinz Pfeffer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Karl-Heinz Pfeffer on the website of the University of Tübingen
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| SURNAME | Pfeffer, Karl-Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |