Martin Seger

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Martin Seger (born January 27, 1940 in Mödling ) is an emeritus Austrian university professor of geography at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt .

academic career

Seger studied biology and geography at the University of Vienna (teaching position in geography and economics , Mag. Rer. Nat. ) And wrote a socio-geographical dissertation with Hans Bobek (Dr. phil.). This was followed by assistant years at the Institute for Geography with Elisabeth Lichtenberger and the habilitation for the general subject of geography in 1976; Habilitation thesis is an urban geographic analysis of the city of Tehran . It was there that Seger developed the well-known "model of the oriental city under western influence".

From 1975 Seger taught in Klagenfurt and together with Bruno Backè set up the Institute for Geography, later the Institute for Geography and Regional Research , at the young university ; In 1978 he became a full professor and head of the institute. Since 2009 he has been Emeritus at the University of Klagenfurt.

In 1993 Seger became a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . From 1993 to 2008 Seger headed the communications of the Austrian Geographical Society (included in the Thomson Reuters Social Science Citation Index ).

Research priorities

According to the socio-geographical and at the same time scientific-technical orientation, there are two (sometimes linked) research directions: urban geography and mega-urban research - as well as remote sensing and land use / land cover applications. Regional focal points were Austria and the Alps-Adriatic region, as well as the Middle East.

Awards

Publications

  • Carinthia landscape areas - habitats 492 p., Numerous thematic maps. Publishing house of the History Association and the Natural Science Association for Carinthia, Klagenfurt, 2010
  • The society of the Habsburg Monarchy in the map of 1910. (according to H. Rumpler) (The Habsburg Monarchy 1848–1918, Vol. IX / 2.) Verlag der Österr. Akad. D. Sciences, Vienna. Including over 300 annotated color cards 2010
  • Istanbul. Metropolis between the continents (according to m. F. Palencsar), Urbanisierung der Erde Vol. 10, 358 p., 2 color maps in large format. Verlag Bornträger, Stuttgart, Megacity research from different perspectives, 2006.
  • Data set “Landcover Austria” in: Das neue Bild Österreich (Ed. A. Borsdorf). Verlag der Österr. Akad. D. Sciences, Vienna, 2005. Numerous thematic maps, Austria by local community.
  • Map of the current vegetation of Carinthia (according to H. Hartl and R. Sturm) 80 p., Color map large format. Klagenfurt, 2001
  • Technical terms remote sensing in: Lexicon of Geography. Verlag Spektrum, Heidelberg, 2001
  • Geography, spatial planning and environmental policy in the book "Kärnten-Natur" (Mildner P. and H. Zwander ed.) Klagenfurt, 1999.
  • Break line of the Iron Curtain (ed., According to m. P. Beluszky). Regional development in the Austro-Hungarian border area, 302 pages, large-format satellite map. Analysis of the situation at the end of the communist era, 1993.
  • Austria: Raum-Gesellschaft-Wirtschaft (according to Wolfgang Sitte ), textbook for the 7th grade upper secondary school. Verlag Hölzel-Deuticke, Vienna, 1984. A paradigmatic new direction in the subject of geography and economics .
  • Tehran: An urban geographic study 254 p., 2 large-format color maps (urban structure, bazaar). Verlag Springer Vienna-New York, 1978.
  • The Mödling room. Settlement agglomeration in the south of Vienna. 2 vols., 415 p., 2 large format color cards, 1972

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personal data
SURNAME Seger, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Mödling , Lower Austria