Richard Hartshorne

Richard Hartshorne ( born December 12, 1899 in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, † November 5, 1992 in Madison, Wisconsin) was an American geographer.

Life

After schooling studied Hartshorne, a younger brother of the philosopher Charles Hartshorne, geography at Princeton University and at the University of Chicago. After the completion of this study there in 1924 with a Philosophiae Doctor ( Ph.D. ), he accepted an appointment as professor of geography at the University of Minnesota and taught at this until 1940. After significant research in North America in the 1920s and 1930s as well as in Europe from 1938 to 1939 he published his major work, the Nature of Geography: a critical survey of current thought in the light of the past (1939 ), which became a milestone in the history of geographical ideas. In it, he argued that regional geography is considered as the core of a non- theoretical discipline.

In 1940 he became Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin -Madison and taught at this until his retirement in 1970. During this time published Hartshorne, who was 1949 President of the Association of American Geographers (AAG ), 1959, Perspective on the Nature Geography of a retrospective view of his craft. He was, inter alia, Awarded in 1971 by the Clark University with an honorary doctorate, and in 1984 by the Royal Geographical Society with the Victoria Medal.

External links and sources

• Works by or about Richard Hartshorne in the catalog that German national library
• THE NEW YORK TIMES: Richard Hartshorne; What Geographer 92 (10 November 1992)
• Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Edinburgh 2002, p 688, ISBN 0 550 10051 2