About the scientific field of study the American indie band Geographer Band Image The Geographer.jpg thumb 250px Johannes Vermeer , The Geographer 1668 69 oil on canvas 53 47 cm. max roy Frankfurt, Germany A geographer is a scholar whose area of study is geography , the study of Earth s natural environment and human society. Although geographers are historically known as people who make maps , map making is actually the field of study of cartography , a subset of geography. Geographers do not study only the details of the natural environment or the human society, but they also study the reciprocal relationship between these two. For example, they study how the natural environment contributes to the human society and how the human society affects the natural environment. In particular, physical geographers study the natural environment while human geographers study the human society. Modern geographers are the primary practitioners of the GIS geographic information system , who are often employed by local, state, and federal government agencies as well as in the private sector by environmental and engineering firms. There is a well known painting by Johannes Vermeer titled The Geographer , which is often linked to Vermeer s The Astronomer Vermeer The Astronomer . These paintings are both thought to represent the growing influence and rise in prominence of scientific enquiry in Europe at the time of their painting, 1668 69. Areas of study There are two major fields of study, which are further subdivided Physical geography including geomorphology , hydrology , glaciology , biogeography , climatology , meteorology , pedology , oceanography , geodesy , and environmental geography . Human geography including urban geography , cultural geography , economic geography , political ... occupations Category Social science occupations Category Geographers Geographer de Geograph et Geograaf ... mt eografu nl Geograaf ja pt Ge grafo ro Geograf simple Geographer sl Geograf sh Geograf zh ... more details
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Infobox Journal cover Image Progeog.jpg 100px center br The 1 February 2007 cover of The Professional Geographer discipline Geography website http www.blackwellpublishing.com journal.asp?ref 0033 0124 publisher Routledge country United States U.S. abbreviation None history 1949 to present frequency Quarterly ISSN 0033 0124 The Professional Geographer was originally a journal of the American Society of Professional Geographers, before it became a journal of the Association of American Geographers in 1949. The journal publishes short articles and book reviews in either academic or applied geography .The journal also provides a forum for discussion between academics along with a focus section with articles on topical issues. The 2009 impact factor for the journal is 1.712. See also List of scientific journals List of social science journals List of scientific journals in earth and atmospheric sciences DEFAULTSORT Professional Geographer Category Geography journals Category Scientific journal stubs Category Publications established in 1949 Category Taylor & Francis academic journals Category English language journals Geo term stub ... more details
Theophilus or Theophilos was a historian and geographer, if at least the passages about to be quoted refer to one and the same person. He is mentioned by Josephus c. Apion. i. 23 among those writers, who had noticed the Jews . The third book of his work on Italy lang grc , and the second of that on the Peloponnesus , are quoted by Plutarch Parallela Minora , 13, 32, pp. 309, a., 313, d . Ptolemy Geogr. i. 9. 3 quotes a statement from some geographical work by Theophilus, the title of which he does not mention, but which is no doubt the same as the lang grc , the eleventh book of which is referred to by Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. lang grc . Plutarch also de Fluv. 24 cites the first book of a work of Theophilus. Vossius, de Hist. Graec. p. 504, ed. Westermann. References SmithDGRBM DEFAULTSORT Theophilus Category Ancient Greek geographers ... more details
For other uses ,see Patrocles Patrocles Ancient Greek Greek lang grc active c. 312 270 BC was a Macedon ian general and writer on geographical subjects. He served Seleucus I Nicator Seleucus and Antiochus I Soter Antiochus for several decades. After exploring the Caspian Sea , Patrocles concluded that the Caspian was a gulf or inlet that could be entered from the Indian Ocean . The only information on his work even the title is unknown is documented in the work of Strabo . As a military officer, Patrocles was a skilled engineer, and at one point managed to defend Babylonia for Seleucus against Demetrius Poliorcetes by flooding the irrigation canal s. After the death of Seleucus, Patrocles was sent by his successor Antiochus to put down a revolt in Asia Minor . However his forces were defeated there in an engagement with the Bithynians . References http www.1911encyclopedia.org Patrocles The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought Geography, Exploration, and Fiction Page 97 By James S. Romm ISBN 0691037884 Persondata name Patrocles alternative names short description date of birth place of birth date of death place of death DEFAULTSORT Patrocles Geographer Category 4th century BC births Category 3rd century BC deaths Category Ancient Macedonian generals Category Ancient Greek geographers Category Seleucid generals Category Ancient Greek explorers Category Ancient Macedonian geographers Category Explorers of Asia Ancient Greece bio stub ca Patrocles general de Patrokles Entdecker es Patrocles ge grafo zh ... more details
Other people Pausanias Listen filename 20090514 Pausanias.ogg title Pausanias geographer description An audio recording of this Wikipedia article Pausanias IPAc en icon p s e n i s Ancient Greek language Ancient Greek lang grc Pausan as was a Roman Greece Greek traveler and geographer of the 2nd century AD, who lived in the times of Hadrian , Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius . He is famous for his Description of Greece lang grc , a lengthy work that describes ancient Greece from firsthand observations, and is a crucial link between classical literature and modern archaeology . This is how Andrew Stewart assesses him ref One Hundred Greek Sculptors Their Careers and Extant Works , introduction. Citation needed date March 2007 ref blockquote A careful, pedestrian writer, he is interested not only in the grandiose or the exquisite but in unusual sights and obscure ritual. He is occasionally careless, or makes unwarranted inferences, and his guides or even his own notes sometimes mislead him yet his honesty is unquestionable, and his value without par. blockquote Biography Pausanias was probably a native of Lydia he was certainly familiar with the western coast of Asia Minor , but his travels extended far beyond the limits of Ionia . Before visiting Greece, he had been to Antioch , Jaffa, Israel Joppa and Jerusalem , and to the banks of the River Jordan . In Egypt , he had seen the Pyramid s, while at the temple of Amun Ammon , he had been shown the hymn once sent to that shrine by Pindar . In Macedonia region Macedonia , he appears to have seen the alleged tomb of Orpheus in Libethra. ref http www.perseus.tufts.edu cgi bin ptext?lookup Paus. 9.30.9 11 Pausanias, Description of Greece Boeotia,9.30.7 Going from Dium along the road to the mountain, and advancing twenty stades, you come to a pillar on the right surmounted by a stone urn, which ... Pausania simple Pausanias geographer sk Pausanias geograf sl Pavzanij geograf sh Pauzanija geograf ... more details
File Hermann Geogr Bavar1.png thumb 280px Localisation of gr ds and tribes The Bavarian Geographer lang la Geographus Bavarus is a conventional name given by Jan Potocki in 1796 ref J. Potocki. Fragments historiques et geographiques sur la Scythie, Sarmatie, et les Slaves . Brunsvic, 1796. ref to the author of an Anonymous work anonymous medieval document Descriptio civitatum et regionum ad septentrionalem plagam Danubii Description of Cities and Lands North of the Danube . The short document was discovered in 1772 in the Bavarian State Library , Munich by Louis XV s ambassador to the Saxon court, Comte Louis Gabriel Du Buat Nan ay . ref Le comte du Buat. Histoire ancienne des peuples de l Europe . T. 11. Paris, 1772. ref It had been acquired by the Wittelsbach s with the collection of the antiquarian Hermann Sch del 1410&ndash 85 in 1571. The document was much discussed in the early 19th century historiography, notably by Nikolai Karamzin and Joachim Lelewel . ref J. Lelewel. Winulska S awia szczyzna z Geografa bawarskiego , Tygodnik Wile ski, nr 47, z dn. 8 pa dzernika 1816, s. 333, i w nast nych numerach 48&ndash 50. Also Joachim Lelewel, Geographe du Moyen Age III , Bruxelles 1852, s.21&ndash 45. ref The document contains a list of the tribes in Central Europe Central Eastern Europe Eastern Europe east of the Elbe and north of the Danube to the Volga rivers to the Black and Caspian Sea most of them of Slavic peoples Slavonic origin, with Rus people Ruzzi , and others such as Bulgars Vulgarii , etc. . Absent on the list are Polans , Pomeranians Slavic tribe Pomeranians and Masovian s, tribes first of whom are believed to have settled along the shores of the Warta river during the 8th century. ref Andrzej Buko Archeologia Polski wczesno redniowiecznej odkrycia, hipotezy, interpretacje. Warszawa, 2005. ref There is also some information about the number of strongholds civitates possessed by some of the tribes. Henryk owmia ski demonstrated that the list consists of two ... more details
Unreferenced date October 2006 James White b. 1863 in Ingersoll, Ontario was a Canada Canadian geographer . White studied geology at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario . In 1883, he became the Geographer and Chief Draftsman for the Geological Survey of Canada . White and a team of 20 cartographers produced the first edition of the Atlas of Canada in 1906. White is buried at Beechwood Cemetery , in Ottawa , Ontario , Canada . Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME White, James ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Canadian geographer DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT White, James Category Canadian geographers Category Year of death missing Category Royal Military College of Canada alumni Canada scientist stub ... more details
about the British Geographer the musician George Chisholm musician George Chisholm 1850 1930 was a British geography geographer . He authored the first English language textbook on economic geography Handbook on Commercial Geography 1889 . It was later revised by Kenneth Stamp. ISBN 0 582 30015 0 . He authored a review of Friedrich Naumann s Pan German work on Central Europe which appeared in The Scottish Geographical Magazine issue 33, which condemned the aggressively militaristic overtones of Naumann s nationalistic work. In 1917, he was awarded the Charles P. Daly Medal of the American Geographical Society . External links Wikisource author inline George Goudie Chisholm Cite web url http www.scottish places.info people famousfirst113.html title Overview of George Goudie Chisholm work scottish places.info Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Chisholm, George ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1850 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1930 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Chisholm, George Category 1850 births Category 1930 deaths Category English geographers UK scientist stub geographer stub ... more details
Robert G. Bailey is an American geographer. In the mid 1990s the US Forest Service adapted the Bailey hierarchy of ecological units for use as the scientific framework for ecosystem management of the national forests. ref cite news first Norah Deakin last Davis authorlink coauthors title Following the mapmaker US Forest Service chief geographer Robert G. Bailey url http findarticles.com p articles mi m1016 is n5 6 v100 ai 15473421 work American Forests publisher date May June,1994 accessdate 31 March 2009 ref References references Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Bailey, Robert ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Bailey, Robert Category Living people Category Year of birth missing living people Category American geographers ... more details
unreferenced date September 2009 Georg Hartmann August 4, 1865 July 12, 1946 was a German geographer working in German South West Africa . He was born in Dresden and educated at Dresden and Leipzig. He was known for his Hartmann s Mountain Zebra Equus zebra hartmannae . Hartmann s Mountain Zebra is a subspecies of the Mountain Zebra native to south western Angola , Namibia and South Africa . Hartmann worked as a director for the Otavi Mining and Railway Company and was a founder of the town Grootfontein in Otjozondjupa Region , Namibia . He died at Grammersdorf in Schleswig Holstein . Do not delete Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata Persondata NAME Hartmann, Georg ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION German geographer DATE OF BIRTH August 4, 1865 PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1946 PLACE OF DEATH Grammersdorf Schleswig Holstein DEFAULTSORT Hartmann, Georg Category 1865 births Category 1946 deaths Category People from Dresden Category Colonial people in German South West Africa Category History of Namibia Category German geographers Category German cartographers geographer stub Germany scientist stub de Georg Hartmann Forscher ... more details
Expand French Pierre Duval date January 2012 Pierre Duval 1618 1683 was a France French geographer. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Duval ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1618 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1683 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Duval Category 1618 births Category 1683 deaths Category French geographers France scientist stub fr Pierre Duval mg Pierre Duval ... more details
Sarah Whatmore is a Professor of Environment and Public Policy at Oxford University and from 2012, Head of School. She received her PhD in geography in 1988 at University College London , and previously taught for 12 years at Bristol University and briefly at the Open University. ref name oxford homepage http www.geog.ox.ac.uk staff swhatmore.html Oxford University home page for Sarah Whatmore ref Whatmore is a critical geography critical geographer , questioning dialectical materialism Marxist materialist approaches in favor of actor network theory and feminist science studies . Her approach, laid out in her 2002 book Hybrid Geographies , ref name hybrid geog Sarah Whatmore, 2002. Hybrid Geographies . Sage Publications London. ref attempts to develop what she terms more than human modes of inquiry, and question the relationship between science and democracy. Hybrid Geographies has been cited over 800 times. ref http scholar.google.com.au scholar?q Hybrid Geographies&oe utf 8&rls org.mozilla en US official&client firefox a&um 1&ie UTF 8&hl en&sa N&tab ws ref Her ideas have been well received by critical theorists, but less so by policy oriented environmental thinkers and traditional geographers less inclined to theorise human environment relationships. References references Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Whatmore, Sarah ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION British geographer DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Whatmore, Sarah Category Living people Category British geographers Category Fellows of Linacre College, Oxford Category Alumni of University College London Category Academicians of the Social Sciences UK scientist stub geographer stub ... more details
Keith Barber is a professor of physical geography at the University of Southampton . Barber specializes in paleontology , landscape and climate change, and human impact throughout the Quaternary . External links http www.southampton.ac.uk geography about staff keb.page University of Southampton staff page Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Barber, Keith ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Barber, Keith Category Academics of the University of Southampton Category British geographers Category Living people UK scientist stub Geographer stub ... more details
Wikify date November 2011 Orphan date June 2009 Image DougPowell.JPG right thumb Doug Powell near the mountains that inspired him as a young man Douglas R. Powell 1920 2006 was a geographer at the University of California, Berkeley . He was known for being one of the first snow surveyors in the world. He worked with the California Cooperate Snow Survey for28 years and established snow surveying programs in Afghanistan and Chile. ref name obit http www.universityofcalifornia.edu senate inmemoriam douglasrpowell.html Faculty senate in memoriam ref His fabled ref http geoimages.berkeley.edu GeoImages About GeoImages.html GeoImages History ref Geography 197 field course, which he taught from 1967 until 1989, is fondly remembered by generations of Berkeley geography graduates. In 1976 the university awarded him the Distinguished Teaching Award. ref name obit He was voted Best Undergraduate Instructor by the student body. ref http articles.sfgate.com 2006 01 31 news 17279426 1 white mountains snow surveys winters San Francisco Chronicle, January 31, 2006 ref The Western Montana Atlas of Panoramic Aerial Images is dedicated to his memory. ref http 130.166.124.2 montana panorama atlas index.html Western Montana Atlas dedication page ref A memorial fund in his name, the Douglas R. Powell Fund for Field Geography, has been established at UC Berkeley. ref http geography.berkeley.edu about memory.php Geography at Berkeley In memory ref References references Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Powell, Doug ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Geographer DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1920 PLACE OF BIRTH Stockton, California DATE OF DEATH January 23, 2006 PLACE OF DEATH Berkeley, California DEFAULTSORT Powell, Doug Category 1920 births Category 2006 deaths Category American geographers US academic bio stub ... more details
File Hermann Wagner 01.jpg.JPG right thumb bust of Hermann Wagner by Adolf von Donndorf 1910 Hermann Wagner June 23, 1840 June 18, 1929 was a German geographer and cartographer who was a native of Erlangen . He was the son of anatomist Rudolf Wagner 1805 1864 and brother to economist Adolph Wagner 1835 1917 . He received his education at the University of Erlangen , and in 1868 went to work for the publishing firm Justus Perthes Geographische Anstalt Gotha . Until 1876 he was editor of the statistical portion of the Gothaer Almanack , and in 1872 co founded the geographical statistical review Die Bevolkerung der Erde with Ernst Behm 1830 1884 . In 1876 Wagner taught classes in geography at the University of K nigsberg , and in 1880 became professor of geography at the University of G ttingen , where he established the institute of geography. From 1880 to 1908 he was an editor of the Geographisches Jahrbuch . His better known publications include the textbook Lehrbuch der Geographie 7th edition, 1903 , and the Sydow Wagner Methodischer Schulatlas , a school atlas named in conjunction with cartographer Emil von Sydow 1812 1873 . References Parts of this article are based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia. http www.1911encyclopedia.org Adolf Wagner LoveToKnow 1911 Encyclopedia article on Adolf Wagner Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Wagner, Hermann ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION German geographer DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1840 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1928 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Wagner, Hermann Category German geographers Category German cartographers Category University of G ttingen faculty Category People from Erlangen Category 1840 births Category 1928 deaths Category Recipients of the Cullum Geographical Medal da Hermann Wagner de Hermann Wagner Geograph pl Hermann Wagner sv Hermann Wagner ... more details
Other persons David Sadler David Sadler disambiguation David Sadler is a professor and a research er of human geography at the University of Liverpool , England . Sadler gained his first degree, and a doctorate from Durham University , and has held academic posts at Durham, and the University of Wales, Lampeter , before becoming a professor at Liverpool. His research interests include the Geographies of labour and trade union organisation, spatial dimensions of European Union policies, and the relationships between industrial change and regional development. See also Lampeter Geography School External links http www.liv.ac.uk geography staff sadler.htm David Sadler Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Sadler, David ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Sadler, David Category Alumni of Durham University Category British geographers Category British academics Category Year of birth missing living people Category Living people UK academic bio stub anthropologist stub UK scientist stub Geographer stub ... more details
This page is about the geographer Gillian Rose. For the philosopher, see Gillian Rose . Gillian Rose born 1962 is a United Kingdom British geographer and geographic author. As of May 2008, she is senior professor of culture at the Open University . She is best known for her 1993 book, Feminism & Geography The Limits of Geographical Knowledge . Career Rose s current research interests lie broadly within the field of visual culture . She is interested in the ways social subjectivities and relations are pictured or made invisible in a range of Published media media , and how those processes are embedded in power relations. She also has long standing interest in feminist film theory and in Michel Foucault s and feminist accounts of photography in particular. Works Written from a Marxist and radical feminist perspective, Feminism & Geography stimulated a series of debates within geography about the nature of how geographic knowledge is constructed. Rose is known for defining identity as how we make sense of ourselves and explained how we each have different identities on different scales, for example, someone s local identity is probably different than their global identity. She also describes sense of place as the process of infusing a place with meaning and feeling. In recent years she has written two books Deterritorialisations Revisioning Landscape and Politics 2003 and Visual Methodologies An Introduction to Interpreting Visual Materials 2001 . Rose, G. forthcoming Spectacles and spectres London, 7 July 2005 , New Formations. Rose, G. 2001 Visual Methodologies An Introduction to Interpreting Visual Materials, second edition, Sage. Rose, G. 2005 You just have to make a conscious effort to keep snapping away, I think a case study of family photos, mothering and familial space , in Hardy, S and Wiedmer, C eds Motherhood and Space Configurations of the Maternal Through Politics ... Living people Category Academics of the Open University Geographer stub UK scientist stub pt Gillian ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Colin D. Woodroffe is a geographer and coastal geomorphologist currently serving as Professorial Fellow at the University of Wollongong . He is the Coordinator of the GeoQuEST Research Centre . His international research focuses on the morphology, stratigraphy and sedimentary dynamics of tropical and subtropical coasts, and the application of Geographical Information Systems GIS to the study of processes and change in the coastal zone. He has researched the following Morphodynamics of estuaries and deltas Reef morphology and sedimentation Coral paleoclimatology and ocean circulation Reef island evolution and climate change Publications Woodroffe, C.D., B. Samosorn, Q. Hua, and D.E. Hart 2007 Incremental accretion of a sandy reef island over the past 3000 years indicated by component specific radiocarbon dating . Geophysical Research Letters , 34 L03602, doi 10.1029 2006GL028875. Woodroffe, C.D. 2007 Critical thresholds and the vulnerability of Australian tropical coastal ecosystems to the impacts of climate change . Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue , vol. 50 pp. 469 473. Woodroffe, C.D., Kennedy, D.M., Brooke, B.P. and Dickson, M.E. 2006 Geomorphological evolution of Lord Howe Island and carbonate production at the latitudinal limit to reef growth . Journal of Coastal Research , vol. 22 pp. 188 201. Woodroffe, C.D., Nicholls, R.J., Saito, Y., Chen, Z. and Goodbred, S.L. 2006 Landscape variability and the response of Asian megadeltas to environmental change . Global Change and Integrated Coastal Management The Asia Pacific Region , Springer, pp. 277 314. Woodroffe, C.D., Kennedy, D.M., Jones, B.G. and Phipps, C.V.G., 2004. Geomorphology and Late Quaternary development of Middleton and Elizabeth Reefs . Coral Reefs , vol. 23 ... ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Australian geographer DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Woodroffe, Colin Geographer Category Geomorphologists Category Australian ... more details
BLP sources date February 2011 Ian Cook is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Exeter in the UK, and formerly senior lecturer in geography at the University of Birmingham . ref cite news url http www.timeshighereducation.co.uk story.asp?storyCode 151453§ioncode 26 title When a meal out changes lives last Barnaby first Wendy date 5 May 2000 work Times Higher Education accessdate 20 February 2011 ref Today he studies geographies of commodification, often with reference to exotic fruit, and is completing a book on ethnographic methods of inquiry. He has written widely on human geography. Books Ian Cook and Mike Crang in press Doing ethnographies . London Sage. Paul Cloke, Ian Cook, Philip Crang, Mark Goodwin, Joe Painter & Chris Philo 2004 Practising human geographies. London Sage See also Lampeter Geography School References Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Cook, Ian ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Cook, Ian Category Living people Category Alumni of the University of Bristol Category People associated with the University of Birmingham Category Academics of the University of Exeter UK scientist stub geographer stub ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Hermann Guthe 1824 1874 was a Germans German geography geographer , born at Sankt Andreasberg in the Harz region, and educated at Clausthal Zellerfeld Clausthal 1839 1845 , G ttingen 1845 1847 , and Berlin 1847 1848 , where he was a pupil of Carl Ritter Ritter . In 1849 he obtained an appointment as teacher in the school Lyceum of Hanover , and subsequently he taught mathematics at the Polytechnic High School of the same city. In 1873 he was appointed to the Chair official chair of geography at the Polytechnic Institute, Munich . He died of cholera . His geographical works include Die Lande Braunschweig und Hannover mit R cksicht auf die Nachbargebiete geographisch dargestellt second edition, 1887 fourth abridged edition, 1890 Lehrbuch der Geographie f r die mittleren und oberen Klassen h herer Bildungsanstalten sixth edition, 1894, et. seq. . NIE Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Guthe, Hermann ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1824 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1874 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Guthe, Hermann Category German geographers Category 1824 births Category 1874 deaths Category People from the Harz ... more details
Infobox book name London Geographer s A Z Street Atlas title orig translator image Deleted image removed Image London A to Z 2004.jpg 150px Cover image caption Cover of 2004 edition author Geographers A Z Map Company illustrator cover artist country United Kingdom language series subject Street map genre publisher Geographers A Z Map Company Ltd. pub date 1936 first edition english pub date media type Print Paperback pages 430 pp seventh edition isbn ISBN 978 1 84348 328 1 oclc 80760632 preceded by followed by The A Z or A to Zed , or in full the Geographers A Z Street Atlas , is a name given to any one of a range of atlas cartography atlases of streets in the United Kingdom currently produced by Geographers A Z Map Company Limited . The first atlas, of London , was originally compiled in the 1930s by Phyllis Pearsall . The company she founded now publishes street map s of many cities and towns in the UK. Dating old maps Image Geographers London Map 1957 Cover.jpg 150px right The cover of the Authentic Map of London from 1957 Until quite recently, the maps produced by the Geographers A Z Map Company did not list their publication date, so dating them can be quite hard. A few things that can help are Their first map was published in 1936 There were no maps produced by them during WW2 1939 1945 Until 1962, the Published By address was 24 Grays Inn Road , Holborn , London From 1962 to 1992, the Published By address was Sevenoaks , Kent From 1992 onwards, the Published By address is Borough Green , Kent In 1972, the company name was changed from Geographers Map Company to Geographers A Z Map Company Cartographic date On all their maps, there is a 3 or 4 letter code in one of the corners, often the one containing the key. These letters represent numbers, which are the cartographic date, in the form M MYY. There is at least one scheme in use, but possibly also a second. One ... not been confirmed . Media appearance The Geographer s A Z Street Atlas and the story of how ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 About the geographer the Unitarian 1555 1597 Gy rgy Enyedi Unitarian eastern name order Enyedi Gy rgy Gy rgy Enyedi born 25 August 1930 in Budapest , Hungary is an economist and geographer who has played a major role in the long term development of regional science. In the second part of the XX. Century due to the rapid development of integrative spatial sciences, regional science became an independent discipline Gy rgy Enyedi is a decisive figure in this process. Scientific career His first studies during the 60 s in agricultural and rural typology revealed the negative consequences of the transformation of the Hungarian settlement system with the social and economic inequalities of rural space. He continued his research career on international scale. He was the leader of a world wide comparative research team of the International Geographical Union , studying the development of rural space between 1972 and 1984. Until today he has led a high number of international research projects. In 1984 he founded the Centre for Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences . Today the Centre is the leading organization of Hungarian regional science with a staff of one hundred researchers in four institutes, with a profile of analyses of European and Hungarian regional development. Achievements Author of 40 books and of more than 300 other publications. Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 1999 2005 vice president . Vice President of the International Geographical Union 1984 1992 President of the Hungarian committee of UNESCO 1998 2002 Editor in chief of the periodic Hungarian Science . He was visiting scholar in various leading US and French universities and has spent altogether seven years lecturing in different countries. He is an honorary member of seven foreign geographical societies, member of the Academia Europaea in London and member of the editorial board of several international journals he is the recipient of several Hungarian ... more details
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