Ludwig Trepl

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Ludwig Trepl (born March 8, 1946 in Escherlich ; † December 19, 2016 in Berlin ) was a German biologist .

Life

Ludwig Trepl studied biology from 1969 to 1973 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Free University of Berlin . In 1983 he was with the work over Impatiens parviflora DC as Agriophyt in Central Europe at Herbert Sukopp at the Technical University of Berlin PhD . Five years later he also completed his habilitation there . Since 1994 he has held the chair for landscape ecology at the Technical University of Munich . He was thus the direct successor of the specialist pioneer Wolfgang Haber . He was retired in March 2011 .

Trepl has not only researched the spread of neophytes (invasive species), but above all the history and scientific theory of ecology . He has published articles on ecology as a leading science , on the image of nature conservation and on the societal nature of ecological theory formation . Another focus of his work were individualistic and organicistic theories in ecology. In a transdisciplinary way, he was also concerned with the theory and (cultural) history of " landscape " .

Ludwig Trepl died after a long illness on December 19, 2016 at the age of 70. The funeral service took place on January 4, 2017 in the Neu-Westend church. Then the burial took place in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend .

Fonts

  • Ecology - a leading green science? About the limits and perspectives of a fashionable discipline. In: Impositions on the Greens. (= Course book . 74). Berlin 1983, ISSN  0023-5652 , pp. 6-27.
  • Via Impatiens parviflora DC as an agriophyte in Central Europe. (= Dissertationes Botanicae. Volume 73). Cramer, Vaduz 1984, ISBN 3-7682-1385-4 .
  • History of ecology. From the 17th century to the present. Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-610-04070-X .
  • Are there ecosystems? In: Landscape + City. Vol. 20, No. 4, 1988, pp. 176-185.
  • Competition and coexistence: on the historical background in ecology and the influence of economy and social sciences. In: Ecological Modeling . Volume 75/76, 1994, pp. 99-110.
  • Holism and reductionism in ecology: technical, political, and ideological implications. In: CNS. Volume 5, No. 4, 1994, pp. 13-31.
  • The diversity-stability discussion in ecology. In: Report of the Bavarian Academy for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management . Supplement 12, 1995, pp. 35-49.
  • Ecology as a conservative natural science. From the beautiful landscape to a functioning ecosystem. In: Ulrich Eisel, Hans-Dietrich Schultz: Geographical Thinking. General University Library, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-88122-891-8 , pp. 467-492.
  • General ecology. Lang, Frankfurt am Main.
  • with Thomas Kirchhoff (ed.): Ambiguous nature. Landscape, wilderness and ecosystem as cultural-historical phenomena. Transcript, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-89942-944-2 .
  • with Vera Vicenzotti: City as wilderness: The wilderness metaphor from Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl to contemporary urban designers. In: Landscape Research. Volume 34, Issue 4, 2009, ISSN  0142-6397 , pp. 379-396.
  • with Thomas Kirchhoff, Ludwig Vicenzotti and Vera Vicenzotti: What is landscape ecology? An analysis and evaluation of six different conceptions. In: Landscape Research. Volume 38, Issue 1, 2013, pp. 33–51.
  • The idea of ​​the landscape: a cultural history from the Enlightenment to the ecological movement. Transcript, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-1943-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Technical University of Munich
  2. ↑ Obituary notice of the family in the Berliner Tagesspiegel from December 24, 2016. Accessed December 11, 2019.