Glenn Thomas Trewartha (1896 – 1984) was an American
geographer
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of
Cornish American descent.
Life
He graduated from the
University of Wisconsin–Madison
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, with a Ph.D. in 1924. He taught at the
University of Wisconsin.
He gave an address to the
Association of American Geographers
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, "A Case for Population Geography", in which he argued that "fundamentally geography is anthropocentric, and if such is the case, that numbers, densities and qualities of the population provide the essential background for all geography. Population provide the essential background for all geography. Population is the point of reference from which all other elements are observed, and from which they all singly and collectively derive significance and meaning". He also wrote about climate, explaining that the atmosphere was like "a pane of glass in a greenhouse... thus maintaining surface temperatures considerably higher than they otherwise would be."
Awards
*1926
Guggenheim Fellowship
Works
* "The earliest map of Galena, Illinois" ''Wisconsin Magazine Of History''. Volume: 23 /Issue: 1 (1939–1940)
*''A Reconnaissance geography of Japan'', University of Wisconsin, 1934
*''Elements of geography physical and cultural'', Glenn Thomas Trewartha, Vernor Clifford Finch, Mc Graw-Hill, 1942
*''Japan, a physical, cultural and regional geography'', University of Wisconsin press, 1945
*''An introduction to climate'', McGraw-Hill, 1954
*''Japan, a geography'', Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin press, 1965
*''An introduction to climate'' McGraw-Hill, 1968
*''The More developed realm: a geography of its population'', Editor Glenn Thomas Trewartha, Pergamon Press, 1978,
*''The Earth's problem climates'', University of Wisconsin Press, 1981,
See also
*
Trewartha climate classification
The Trewartha climate classification (TCC) or the Köppen–Trewartha climate classification (KTC) is a climate classification system first published by American geographer Glenn Thomas Trewartha in 1966. It is a modified version of the Köppen ...
References
External links
"Booknotes" ''American Sociological Review'', Vol. 10, No. 3 (Jun., 1945), pp. 452–456
Forum: Fifty years since Trewartha: The Past, Present, and Future of Population Geography* Hartshorne, R. and Borchert, J. (1988), Glenn T. Trewartha, 1896–1984. ''Annals of the Association of American Geographers'', 78: 728–735.
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American geographers
American people of Cornish descent
1896 births
1984 deaths
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Presidents of the American Association of Geographers
20th-century geographers