Richard Hartshorne

Richard Hartshorne (born December 12, 1899 in Kittanning , Pennsylvania , † November 5, 1992 in Madison , Wisconsin ) was an American geographer .

Life

After attending school, Hartshorne, a younger brother of the philosopher Charles Hartshorne , studied geography at Princeton University and the University of Chicago . After completing this course there in 1924 with a Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) he accepted a professorship for geography at the University of Minnesota and taught there until 1940. After significant research in North America in the 1920s and 1930s and in Europe from 1938 to 1939, he published his major work The Nature of Geography: a critical survey of current thought in the light of the past (1939), which became a milestone in the history of geographical ideas. In it he argued that regional geography is viewed as the core of a non-theoretical discipline.

In 1940 he took over the professorship for geography at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and taught there until his retirement in 1970. During this time Hartshorne, who was also president of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in 1949 , published Perspective on the Nature in 1959 of Geography is a retrospective look at his subject. He was u. a. Honored with an honorary doctorate from Clark University in 1971 and the Victoria Medal in 1984 from the Royal Geographical Society .

literature

• Chambers Biographical Dictionary , Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2 , p. 688.
• JN Entrikin and SD Brunn (Eds.) (1989): Reflections on Richard Hartshorne's The nature of geography. Washington, DC (AAG): 170 pp.
• F. Harvey and U. Wardenga (2006): Richard Hartshorne's adaptation of Alfred Hettner's system of geography. Journal of Historical Geography 32: 422-440.

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard Hartshorne in the catalog of the German National Library
• The New York Times: Richard Hartshorne; Geographer Was 92 (November 10, 1992)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ THE NATURE OF GEOGRAPHY (1939)
2. ↑ Martin, GJ (1994): In Memoriam: Richard Hartshorne, 1899-1992. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 84 (3): 480-492.