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Some Big - Shot Geographers |
The Majority of this was lifted from The Columbia Encyclopedia. Nothing on Hartshorne though! |
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NAME |
DATES |
MAJOR WORK |
BACKGROUND |
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Kant |
Immanuel |
1724 |
1804 |
80 |
Kritik der reinen Vernunft |
1781 |
Proposed that objective reality is known only insofar as it conforms to the essential structure of the knowing mind |
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Ritter |
Karl |
1779 |
1859 |
80 |
Die Erdkunde |
1817 |
A founder of modern human geography. Helped define scope of Geography and its relationship to other sciences. Emphasized influence of environment on development and activities of man. |
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Von Humboldt |
F W H Alexander |
1769 |
1859 |
90 |
Kosmos |
1845 |
Sought to combine the vague ideals of the 18th cent. with the exact scientific requirements of the 19th cent. and to formulate a concept of unity amid the complexity of nature |
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Darwin |
Charles |
1809 |
1882 |
73 |
The Origin of the species |
1858 |
Firmly established the theory of organic evolution |
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Ratzel |
Friedrich |
1844 |
1904 |
60 |
Anthropogeographie |
1882 |
He was a pioneer in developing the school of anthropogeography and was the founder of modern political geography. He emphasized the importance of physical environment as a factor determining human activity |
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Penck |
Albrecht |
1858 |
1945 |
87 |
Morphologie der Erdoberfläche |
1894 |
He is noted for .. his work in the development of modern regional geography |
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Hettner |
Alfred (t) |
1859 |
1942 |
83 |
Geographisches Zeitschrift |
1895 |
A founder of modern German geography. His methodology and his materialistic philosophy, grounded in the work of Immanuel Kant ,have had a great influence on Russian and Soviet geographers |
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Kropotkin |
Piotr Alekseyevich |
1842 |
1921 |
79 |
Mutual Aid |
1902 |
Attacked Huxley and the Social Darwinists for their picture of nature and human society as essentially competitive. He insisted that cooperation and mutual aid were the norms in both the natural and social worlds. Developed a theory of social organization |
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Geddes |
Sir Patrick |
1854 |
1932 |
78 |
City Development |
1904 |
Conviction of the importance of environment |
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Mackinder |
Sir Halford John |
1861 |
1947 |
86 |
Democratic Ideals and Reality |
1904 |
Established geography as an academic subject. Propounded the view of Eurasia as the geographical pivot and "heartland" of history |
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Semple |
Ellen Churchill |
1863 |
1932 |
69 |
Influences of Geographic Environment |
1911 |
Follower of Ratzel, helped develop study human geography. Environmental determinist, and some of her ideas are considered too one-sided |
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Vidal de la Blache |
Paul |
1845 |
1918 |
73 |
Principes de géographie humaine |
1923 |
Believed that there was an interrelationship between the natural environment and man’s activities |
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Davis |
William Morris |
1850 |
1934 |
84 |
The Coral Reef Problem |
1928 |
Responsible for enlarging the scope and systematizing the study of geography |
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Hartshorne |
Richard |
1899 |
1992 |
93 |
The Nature of Geography |
1939 |
Why is this guy so neglected on the web? |
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Sauer |
Carl Ortwin |
1889 |
1975 |
86 |
Agricultural Origins and Dispersals |
1952 |
Sought to unify the areas of physical and human geography through an essentially historical methodology. Advocated "humane" use of the environment, pointing to rural cultures |
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Average Age = |
80 |
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