Klaus Rother

This article deals with the geographer Klaus Rother; for the medic of the same name, see Klaus Rother (medic) .

Klaus Rother (born August 29, 1932 in Chemnitz ) is a German geographer and professor emeritus at the University of Passau.

Life

Klaus Rother grew up in Hohenstein-Ernstthal (Saxony), attended secondary schools in Chemnitz and Glauchau and initially studied medicine in Leipzig from 1952 to 1953 . After fleeing to West Germany in 1953, he studied geography, biology and chemistry at the University of Tübingen in 1954 , passed the state examination for higher education in 1961 and was awarded a doctorate as a student of Herbert Wilhelmy in 1962. rer. nat. PhD . After an assistant in Tübingen , Karlsruhe and Bonn at Adolf Leidlmair habilitation he did in 1970 in geography at the University of Bonn, was from 1974 to 1982 ordinary professor at the University of Dusseldorf and to 2000 at the University of Passau .

After researching physical geography , Klaus Rother turned to cultural geography , paying particular attention to agricultural , settlement and population geography . He is considered a leading expert on the Mediterranean region and the Mediterranean landscapes of the world. After the reunification of Germany , he carried out regional studies in Saxony and Thuringia . He was co-editor of the Geographical Seminar , Braunschweig, and of Europa Regional , Leipzig.

Rother has been married since 1963 and has two sons.

Fonts (selection)

• About block formations in the northern Black Forest valley. Dissertation, University of Tübingen, 1962.
• The cultural landscape of the Tarentine Gulf Coast. Changes under the influence of the Italian agrarian reform (= Bonner Geographische Abhandlungen. H. 44). Dümmler, Bonn 1971.
• Group settlements in central Chile. Explained using the example of the province of O'Higgins (= Düsseldorfer Geographische Schriften. Vol. 9). Geographical Institute of the University, Düsseldorf 1977.
• The Mediterranean subtropics. Mediterranean Basin, California, Central Chile, Cape Country, Southwest and South Australia. Westermann, Braunschweig 1984.
• The Mediterranean. A geographical overview. Teubner, Stuttgart 1993.
• Germany - the eastern center. Westermann, Braunschweig 1997.
• with Franz Tichy : Italy. Geography, history, economics, politics. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2000; 2nd edition 2008.

Web links

• Klaus Rother on the website of the University of Passau

Individual evidence

1. ^ Klaus Rother: On the way. A geographer remembers (= series of publications of the University of Passau. Vol. 35). President of the University, Passau 2012 (with list of publications).