Ernst Neef

Ernst Neef (* April 16, 1908 in Dresden, † July 7, 1984 ) was a German geographer. He is - together with Carl Troll (1899-1975) and Joseph Schmithüsen (1909-1984) - one of the founders of landscape ecology, which he has theoretically and methodologically developed further.

Life

Ernst Neef studied geography and geology at the universities of Innsbruck and Heidelberg. In 1932 he received his doctorate with the geomorphological work " The landforms of the Bregenz Forest ," Dr. phil. After that, he was from 1932 to 1936 at the Geographical Institute of the Technical University Dresden active. He was a member of the NSDAP and SA since 1933. After his habilitation with Scripture " Studies on the Agricultural Geography of Saxony", he was appointed in 1936 at the Technical University of Gdansk. His teaching was interrupted by the war years in which he worked, among others, as a meteorologist. After 1945 Ernst Neef worked in Dresden's city planning until 1949 a professorship at the University of Leipzig was, where he established the Institute of Geography again, which he directed until 1959.

From 1959 until his retirement he was at the TH, later TU Dresden, initially as director of the Institute of Geography, after the third high school reform in the GDR as a professor of geography at the Department of Geodesy and Cartography. In the Leipzig and Dresden years he created his major work on the geographical landscape research. While working in Dresden he also sat actively promotes the interdisciplinary interaction of environmental sciences and technical sciences.

As a member of the scientific board of Homeland Research Institute of Geography of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR, he was involved in the publication of the series values ​​of our country with regard to the subject area geography. In 1959 he was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Even after his retirement, he had in which he had founded Working Group "Landscape household and area character" of the Saxon Academy of Sciences a technical basis for the work in the last decade that were dedicated to, among others, the cultural landscape research.

One of his PhD students was Carloman field.

Publications

(Selection)

  • Planning and geographical research. In: Ber. Dt. Geography 7, 1949/50, H.2, pp. 310-332.
  • On the genesis of the form image of the hull Mountains. Petermann's Geogr Mitt 99, 1955, pp. 183-192.
  • (Ed. and co-author :) The face of the earth. Brockhaus Paperback physical geography. With an ABC. 1st edition 1956; several editions.
  • ( Landscape ecological with G. Schmidt and M. Lauckner :) studies on various Physiotopen in northwestern Saxony. In: Abh Saxon. Acad. , Prog. Kl 47, Issue 1, 1961, pp. 1-112.
  • Elemental analysis and complex analysis in geography. In: Leopoldina 8/9 Born in row 3, 1962/63, pp. 177-189.
  • Topological and chorological ways of working in landscape research. In: Petermann's Geogr Mitt 107, 1963, pp. 249-259.
  • On the question of the territorial economic potential. In: Research and Progress 40, 1966, H. 3, S. 65-70.
  • The theoretical foundations of landscape theory. Gotha / Leipzig 1967.
  • The metabolism between society and nature as a geographical problem. In: Geogr Rundschau 21, 1969, pp. 435-459.
  • Geography and Environmental Science. In: Petermann's Geogr Mitt 116, 1972, pp. 81-88.
  • Side effects of social activities in the natural area. In: Petermann's Geogr Mitt 120, 1976, pp. 141-144.
  • (Ed. ) Socialist country culture - Environmental Design - Environmental Protection. Brockhaus manual, with an ABC. Leipzig 1977.
  • The loss of clarity, and the problem of the cultural landscape In: fit - Ber. Saxon. Akad Wiss. Leipzig, Prog. Kl 115, H. 6, pp. 1-34.
  • (Ed. H. Barthel ) Selected Writings. Supplementary booklet 283 to Petermann's Geogr Mitt, Gotha 1983.
  • About the term " complementarity " in geography. In: Petermann's Geogr Mitt 129, 1985, pp. 141-142.
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