Michael Richter (geographer)
Michael Richter (born September 22, 1946 ) is a German geographer and professor emeritus at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg .
Life
Richter completed a degree in geography at the University of Bonn and received his doctorate in 1978 under Peter Höllermann and Wilhelm Lauer on a high-mountain ecological topic in Ticino . He completed his habilitation in Aachen on plant succession in the Mediterranean region . From 1987 to 2011 he was professor for physical geography at the Institute for Geography at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Richter specializes in plant geography , high mountain and climatic ecology as well as cultural studies in Spanish-speaking Latin America, southern Europe and North Africa. He is also familiar with most of the high mountains in North America and Asia.
Michael Richter, along with Klaus Rother , Dieter Anhuf , Toni Breuer and Christophe Neff, is one of the few German-speaking Mediterranean experts. The textbooks he has written include "General Plant Geography" and the "Vegetation Zones of the Earth". Richter is a student of the Bonn geomorphologist Peter Höllermann and Frank Ahnert, who was a geomorphologist in Aachen at the time.
Web links
- Literature by and about Michael Richter in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of Michael Richter
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- Andreas Dittmann et al. (Ed.): Who is where? Geographers at universities, colleges and research institutions in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Bonn 2006. ISBN 3-00-016764-1
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Judge, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn |