Peter Schöller

Peter Schöller (born December 5, 1923 in Berlin , † March 16, 1988 in Münster ) was a German geographer and university professor. His professional focus was on urban geography , cultural geography and the geography of Japan .

Life

Peter Schöller was born in the Lichterfelde villa colony and graduated from secondary school in Potsdam-Babelsberg in 1942 . After three years of military service on the Eastern Front and several months as a prisoner of war, he studied geography , German , history and geology at the University of Berlin from the winter semester of 1946 and at the University of Bonn from the summer semester of 1948 . His academic teachers were Norbert Krebs , Hans Stille , Fritz Hartung (Berlin), Hans Cloos , Franz Steinbach and above all Carl Troll (Bonn), with whom he received his doctorate in 1951. From 1952 Schöller was a research assistant under Franz Petri at the Provincial Institute for Westphalian Regional Studies and Folklore in Münster. In 1959 he completed his habilitation at the University of Münster . In 1961, Schöller was appointed as Petri's successor as scientific director of the Provincial Institute and lecturer at the University of Münster. From 1964 he was a full professor of geography at the newly founded Ruhr University Bochum . He declined calls to Hamburg (1964), Vienna (1971) and Munich (1974). In 1984 Schöller was accepted as a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Peter Schöller: The Rhenish-Westphalian border between the Ruhr and Ebbegebirge: its effects on social and economic areas and the central functions of the places. (= Research on German regional studies. Vol. 72). Verl. Of the office f. Regional studies, Remagen (1953).
• Peter Schöller: The Löwen Case and the White Paper. A critical examination of the German documentation about the events in Löwen from August 25th to 28th, 1914. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 1958. With an explanation of German and Belgian historians on the problem and an introduction by Franz Petri .
• Peter Schöller: The German cities. (= Geographic knowledge. Vol. 17). F. Steiner, Wiesbaden (1967).

Anthologies

• Peter Schöller (ed.): General urban geography. (= Ways of Research Vol. 181) Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt (1969).
• Peter Schöller (Ed.): Central Research. (= Ways of Research Vol. 301) Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt (1972).
• Peter Schöller, Heiner Dürr, Eckart Dege (eds.): East Asia. (= Fischer regional studies. Vol. 1). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main (1978).

Essays

• Peter Schöller: Tasks and problems of urban geography. In: Geography. Vol. 7 (1953), H. 3, pp. 161-184, doi: 10.3112 / geography . 1953.03.01 .
• Peter Schöller: Ways and wrong ways of political geography and geopolitics. In: Geography. Vol. 11 (1957), no . 1, pp. 1-20, doi: 10.3112 / geography . 1957.01.01 .

literature

• Hans Heinrich Blotevogel : Obituary for Peter Schöller (1923–1988). In: Westphalian research . 38: 297-302 (1988).
• Chauncy D. Harris : Peter Schöller, 1923–1988. In: Urban Geography. Vol. 9, H. 4 (April-June 1988), pp. 393-396, doi: 10.2747 / 0272-3638.9.4.393 .
• Heinz Heineberg and Alois Mayr : Peter Schöller and German regional studies. In: Reports on German regional studies. 63: 6-35 (1989).
• Rolf Heyer (Ed.): City and cultural area: Peter Schöller in memory. (= Bochum geographical works. Vol. 50). F. Schöningh, Paderborn (1989).
• Rolf Heyer: Peter Schöller (1923–1988): Its significance for settlement geography and cultural space research. In: Siedlungsforschung: Archeology - History - Geography Vol. 7 (1989), pp. 233–247.
• Alois Mayr: On the importance of Peter Schöller for geographic research on Japan and East Asia . In: The Earth. Vol. 120, pp. 69-72.
• Eugen Wirth : Peter Schöller 1923–1988. In: Geography. Vol. 42 (1988), H. 4, pp. 249-261, doi: 10.3112 / geography . 1988.04.01 .
• Herbert Wilhelmy : Peter Schöller. In: Austrian Academy of Sciences. Almanach 1988/89, 139th year, Vienna 1989, pp. 377–381.