Klaus Aerni

Klaus Aerni (born July 27, 1932 in Bern ; † May 29, 2014 ibid) was a Swiss geographer.

Career

Aerni studied geography in Bern and Paris ( Sorbonne ) from 1956 to 1961 and received his doctorate in Bern in 1969 with a study of the recruitment of German- Bernese primary school teachers from 1957 to 1966 as a Dr. phil-nat. With the habilitation thesis The Passwege Gemmi, Loetschen and Grimsel: Topography, Teichography and History of Paths , Aerni laid the foundation stone for his further research work in 1972, which he continued well after his retirement.

In 1974 Aerni joined the Geographical Institute of the University of Bern as a lecturer and was professor of geography from 1978 to 1997 (full professor from 1978 and full professor since 1989) with a scientific focus on the historical-genetic development of the cultural landscapes of the Central Plateau and the Alps, spatial planning, historical traffic routes, Didactics of geography and teacher training. From 1984 Aerni worked as program manager for the inventory of historical traffic routes in Switzerland (IVS) . From 1979 to 1985 Aerni was President of the Geographical Society of Bern , from 1984 to 1988 of the Swiss Geographical Commission and from 1991 to 1999 of the Ecomuseum Simplon Foundation.

On April 14, 2010, the Swiss Federal Council put the Ordinance on the Federal Inventory of Historic Traffic Routes in Switzerland into force, which made the result of the scientific development legally binding.

literature

• Hans-Rudolf Egli and Paul Messerli : Obituary Prof. Dr. Klaus Aerni (1932–2014) In: Berner Geographische Mitteilungen 2014/15, p. 9 .
• Traces, paths and traffic: Festschrift for Klaus Aerni to leave the Geographical Institute / ed. by Hans-Rudolf Egli… [et al.]; Editor: Michael Schorer. Geographical Society, Bern 1997.

Web links

• Christian Lüthi: Aerni, Klaus. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Ordinance on the federal inventory of historic traffic routes in Switzerland