Walter Martin Kollmorgen

Walter Martin Kollmorgen also in the spelling variant Walter M. Kollmorgen (born February 10, 1907 as Walter Martin Johannes Kollmorgen in Bancroft , Cuming County , Nebraska ; † July 22, 2008 in Gretna , Sarpy County , Nebraska) was an American geographer .

Life

Family and education

The from the State originating located Nebraska village Bancroft Walter Martin Kollmorgen, the third of eleven children of the teacher at the Zion Lutheran School Carl Johannes Kollmorgen (1874-1957) and his Wife Dorothea Bendin Kollmorgen (1886-1973), turned to the visit the public schools to study geography at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln , 1931 he earned the academic degree of a Bachelor of Science , 1933 that of a Master of Arts . In 1940, Kollmorgen received his doctorate from Columbia University , and in 1937 he was awarded a Field Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council , making him a Ph.D.

Walter Martin Kollmorgen, who remained unmarried, died in summer 2008 at the age of 101. He found his final resting place next to his sister Johanna Julia Kollmorgen (1909-1994) in the Pioneer Cemetery in Lawrence .

Professional background

After completing his doctorate, Walter Martin Kollmorgen was appointed Associate Agricultural Economist at the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the US Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC . In 1943 he was promoted to Agricultural Economist , and in 1946 he resigned. In addition, he worked from 1941 to 1942 as an economist for the War Labor Board and from June to December 1942 as a research director for the Tennessee State Planning Commission in Nashville .

In 1946 Walter Martin Kollmorgen was appointed associate professor of geography at the University of Kansas and in 1947 professor there. In the same year he was made head of the Department of Geography, which he held until 1967, in 1977 he was retired . These activities were interrupted by a Fulbright scholarship at the University of Göttingen in 1954 and by a visiting professorship at the University of Washington in the spring of the following year.

Kollmorgen, who edited the Annals of the Association of American Geographers from 1955 to 1961 , was particularly prominent with treatises on agricultural geography and economic geography .

Memberships

Walter Martin Kollmorgen was a member of the American Geographical Society , the Association of American Geographers (of which he was President 1966/67), the Kansas Academy of Science and Sigma Xi .

Fonts

• Some geographic misconceptions of the climate of Nebraska and the great plains, Thesis (MA) - University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus) - 1933, 1933
• The milk industry of Nebraska, in: Bulletin (University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Conservation and Survey Division), no.15, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb., 1937
• Cheese production in Nebraska, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb., 1938
• Ice cream production in Nebraska, in: Bulletin (University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Conservation and Survey Division), no. 18., University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb. 1938
• The butter industry of Nebraska, in: Bulletin (University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Conservation and Survey Division), no.16, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb. 1938
• The German-Swiss in Franklin County, Tennessee: a study of the significance of cultural considerations in farming enterprises, Ph. D. Columbia University 1940, US Department of agriculture, Bureau of agricultural economics, Washington, DC, 1940
• A reconnaissance of some cultural-agricultural islands in the South, in: Economic geography. : volume 17, number 4, Clark University, Worcester, Mass., 1941, pp. 409-430.
• Culture of a contemporary rural community: the Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, US Department of agriculture, Bureau of agricultural economics, Washington, DC, 1942
• The agricultural stability of the Old Order Amish and Old Order Mennonites of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1943
• with George Frederick Jenks: A geographic study of population and settlement changes in Sherman County, Kansas, Kansas Academy of Science, Topeka, 1951

literature

• American Political Science Association, Franklin L. Burdette: Directory of the American Political Science Association, Association, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., 1945, p. 81.
• Who's who in the Midwest. : volume VI, Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1958, p. 569.
• Who's Who in America: a biographical dictionary of notable living men and women. : volume 33 (1964-1965), Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1964, p. 1124.
• P. Shortridge et al .: Walter Martin Johannes Kollmorgen, 1907-2008, in: Lindley Alumni newsletter of the Department of Geography, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan., 2008, pp. 5-9.

Web links

• Walter Martin Kollmorgen in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Literature by and about Walter Martin Kollmorgen in the bibliographic database WorldCat