Norbert Lichtenecker

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Memorial plaque for Lichtenecker on the Goldbergkees glacier trail

Norbert Lichtenecker (born August 5, 1897 in Zillingdorf , Lower Austria , † March 30, 1938 in Vienna ) was an Austrian geographer and professor at the University of Vienna .

life and career

Norbert Lichtenecker studied geology and lower geodesy at the University of Vienna from 1919 and received his doctorate in 1923 as Dr. phil. In the same year he became an assistant at the Geography Institute, where he obtained his habilitation in 1934 . The co-founder of the Viennese morphological school dedicated his scientific career in particular to alpine geomorphology and general glaciology . He received special recognition for his theory of the origin of the Augenstein landscape. From 1924 he investigated glacier fluctuations in the Alps on behalf of the German and Austrian Alpine Association and carried out profile and stone row measurements. Between 1930 and 1932 he also worked as a specialist consultant for the Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying . He was able to prove the usefulness of the isohypse display in rocky terrain for large-scale maps. In the course of the burgeoning National Socialism , the Jewish Lichtenecker got more and more problems. After losing his university job, he committed suicide shortly after the Anschluss in 1938 .

Fonts

  • The motion picture of the Eastern Alps. In: Die Naturwissenschaft , Vol. 13 (1925).
  • The Rax. In: Annual Geographical Report from Austria , Vol. 13 (1926).
  • Map recordings in Hunan and their geographical results. together with Heinrich von Handel-Mazzetti . In: Memoranda of Vienna , math.-nat. Kl., Vol. 101 (1928).
  • The structure of the Austrian Alps. In: Science and Culture 1 (1928).
  • Modern cartography. In: Die Naturwissenschaft , vol. 16 (1928).
  • Observations on the glaciers ... In: Zeitschrift für Gletscherkunde, for Ice Age research and the history of the climate (1928–1933).
  • The modern high mountain cartography. In: Der Bergsteiger (1929).
  • Glacier observations in the Zemmgrund (Zillertal Alps). ibid. (1930).
  • On the interpretation of the pumice stone deposits of Köfels in the Ötztal. In: Verhh. of the Federal Geological Institute (1930).
  • Austria. In: Handbuch der Geographischen Wiss. , ed. by Fritz Klute , Vol. 4 (1933).
  • Contributions to the morphological development history of the Eastern Alps. Part 1. In: Annual Geographical Report from Austria , Vol. 19 (1938).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950 , Volume 5 (Lfg. 22, 1970), p. 186. Link .
  2. ^ Norbert Lichtenecker in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  3. ^ Memorial Book for the Victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna in 1938 - Norbert Lichtenecker. University of Vienna , accessed on July 28, 2017 .
  4. ^ Slide collection of the Institute for Geography and Regional Research - Norbert Lichtenecker. University of Vienna , accessed on July 28, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Lichtenecker, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Zillingdorf , Lower Austria
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1938
Place of death Vienna