Herbert Wilhelmy

Herbert Wilhelmy ( born February 4, 1910 in Special Hausen, † 1 February 2003 in Tübingen ) was a German geographer.

Career

Wilhelmy studied geography, geology and anthropology at the universities of Giessen, Bonn, Vienna (1930 ) and finally Leipzig. 1932 followed with Heinrich Schmitthenner, a student Alfred Hettner, the promotion with the geomorphic work: The surface forms of Iskergebietes: A morphogenesis West Bulgaria. Even his habilitation in Kiel as an assistant to Oscar Schmieder (from 1932) was devoted to high - Bulgaria: The rural settlements and the rural economy (1935 ), Sofia, changes of a large city between East and West (1936). At the University of Kiel in 1939 paid diet lecturer, associate professor in 1942 until 1954, interrupted by a convening as a meteorologist and director of a research institute in Ukraine ( 1941-1943 ). In 1954 he took a professorship at the University of Stuttgart as a successor of Hermann Lautensach. 1959/60 Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked with James J. Parsons - a student of Carl O. Sauer - worked and was able to wake William M. Denevans interest for a dissertation in the Llanos de Mojos. He then went as a successor of Hermann von Wissmann at the University of Tübingen, where he became professor emeritus in 1978.

Since 1939, he was with Renate Wilhelmy, nee Wolf, married. From this marriage the children Lothar, Uta and Maren emerged.

Research

Wilhelmy was a Universalist, whose research included a thematically broad range in physical geography and human geography. In the physical realm, it dealt with the sub-areas of geomorphology, climate and vegetation geography and in human beings, with the population and settlement geography, urban studies and the analysis of economic development. Also in the field of cartography he worked. Except with the Balkans, which he had already toured as a student in Vienna during the holidays, he worked since his time in Kiel and participation in the overseas Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft with America, particularly South America. He also published two books on Alexander von Humboldt.

Memberships

Honors

Writings

• Cartography in keywords, Publisher Ferdinand Hirt, 5th edition, 1990 ( first in 4 parts )
• Geomorphology in brief, 3 volumes, published by Ferdinand Hirt, reissues Enke Verlag, 6th Edition 2004, 2007 edited by Berthold Bauer, Christine Embleton -Hamann
• Rice farming and food discretion in Southeast Asia, Publisher Ferdinand Hirt, 1975, ISBN 3554 60105 5
• Klimageomorphologie in keywords, Publisher Ferdinand Hirt 1974
• With G. Borchert, A. Kolb, L. Scheidl, H. Walch, TD Zotschew: Geography in brief, 6 volumes, Publisher Ferdinand Hirt, 4th Edition 1975, 1976 ( Part 1 General Geography, Part 2 cultural and economic areas in the earth, part 3 Germany, Europe part 4, Part 5 Asia, Africa, Australia, Oceania, Part 6 America, oceans, polar regions)
• World and Environment of Maya - The rise and demise of a civilization, 2nd edition, Piper Verlag 1989
• Latin America, Kohlhammerstraße 1982
• Selected research in South America, Berlin, Reimer 1980
• Air morphology of the mass rocks, 2nd edition, Academic Publishing Company, Wiesbaden 1981
• Bhutan, Munich, Beck 1990
• South America in the mirror of its cities, Cram, de Gruyter 1952, 2nd edition 1968
• With Wilhelm Rohmeder The La Plata countries, Westermann 1963
• With Axel Borsdorf The cities of South America. 2 vols. Gebr Bornträger 1984, 1985