Wolf Dieter Blümel
Wolf Dieter Blümel (born May 12, 1943 in Langenbielau , Lower Silesia Province ) is a German geographer .
Life
Wolf Dieter Blümel studied geography, geology, economics as well as prehistory and early history at the Universities of Münster and Würzburg, received his doctorate in Karlsruhe in 1972 with a thesis on the economic and population-geographical situation of the island of Madeira and the problem of its sustainability and completed his habilitation in 1980 with a Pedological-geomorphological work on South West Africa and South East Spain. After he accepted a professorship for geomorphology and geoecology at the University of Karlsruhe in 1981 and went to Cologne University for a short time in 1986, he has been full professor for physical geography and director of the Institute for Geography at the University of Stuttgart since 1987 .
He is an expert in arid and polar research , geomorphology and landscape history, as well as paleoclimatology and (paleo-) environmental research .
From 1989 to 1992, Blümel coordinated and led the Geoscientific Spitsbergen Expedition (SPE 90-92) .
Wolf Dieter Blümel was registered on March 24, 2003 under matriculation no. 6855 accepted as a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in the Geosciences Section and elected to the corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 2010.
literature
- Leopoldina Newly elected members 2003, Leopoldina, Halle (Saale) 2004, p. 10 ( Prof. Dr. rer. Nat. Habil. Wolf Dieter Blümel )
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolf Dieter Blümel in the catalog of the German National Library
- List of publications
- Information from the University of Stuttgart
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member entry of Wolf Dieter Blümel (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 2, 2019.
- ↑ Member entry of Wolf Dieter Blümel at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 1, 2020.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blümel, Wolf Dieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geographer and geomorphologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Langenbielau , Province of Lower Silesia |