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List Of Geographers
This list of geographers is presented in English alphabetical transliteration order (by surnames). A * Hardo Aasmäe (Estonia, 1951–2014) * Aziz Ab'Saber (Brazil, 1924–2012) * Diogo Abreu (Portugal, born 1947) *John Adams, (England, pre–1670–1738) * Peter Adams (Canada, born 1936)– *Agatharchides (Ancient Greece, 2nd c. BCE) * Agathedaemon of Alexandria (Ancient Greece, 2nd c. CE) * John A. Agnew (England/US, born 1949) * Irasema Alcántara-Ayala (Mexico, born 1970) * T. Alford-Smith (US/England, 1864–1936) * Richard Andree (Germany, 1835–1912) * A. W. Andrews (England, 1868–1959) *Ash Amin (England, born 1955) * Alypius of Antioch (Roman Empire, fl. c. 450) * Jacques Ancel (France, 1879–1943) * Karl Andree (Germany, 1808–1875) * Richard Andree (Germany, 1835–1912) * Benoît Antheaume (France, born 1946) * Pilar Benejam Arguimbau (Spain, born 1937) * Aaron Arrowsmith (England, 1750–1823) * Väinö Auer (Finland, 1895–1981) * Félix de Azara (Spain, 174 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geographer
A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. The Greek prefix "geo" means "earth" and the Greek suffix, "graphy", meaning "description", so a geographer is someone who studies the earth. The word "geography" is a Middle French word that is believed to have been first used in 1540. Although geographers are historically known as people who make maps, map making is actually the field of study of cartography, a subset of geography. Geographers do not study only the details of the natural environment or human society, but they also study the reciprocal relationship between these two. For example, they study how the natural environment contributes to human society and how human society affects the natural environment. In particular, physical geographers study the natural environment while human geographers study human society ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benoît Antheaume
Benoît Antheaume (born 1946) is a French geographer, specialising in the South Pacific The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five Borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is ... region. He holds a doctorate in geography and is research director at the scientific institute ORSTOM. He has undertaken numerous research missions in Oceania, including in New Caledonia and New Zealand, and has written numerous scientific articles, as well as an ''Atlas of New Caledonia'' and an ''Atlas of the Islands and States of the Pacific'' with Joel Bonnemaison. Selected works * 1988 - Antheaume B & Bonnemaison J. «Atlas des îles et États du Pacifique», Montpellier-Paris, coéd. GIP Reclus/Publisud 128 pp., 103 cartes couleurs * 1995 - Antheaume B & Bonnemaison J. «Une aire Pacifique ?» coll. «Documentation photographique» Paris, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Balling
Robert C. Balling, Jr. is an American climatologist. He is a professor of geography at Arizona State University, and the former director of its Office of Climatology. His research interests include climatology, global climate change, and geographic information systems.Professor Robert C. Balling, Jr. at Balling has declared himself one of the scientists who oppose the consensus on , arguing in a 2009 book that anthropogenic global warming "is indeed real, but relatively modest", and maintaining that there is a |
Ahmed Ibn Sahl Al-Balkhi
Abu Zayd Ahmed ibn Sahl Balkhi () was a Persian Muslim polymath: a geographer, mathematician, physician, psychologist and scientist. Born in 850 CE in Shamistiyan, in the province of Balkh, Greater Khorasan, he was a disciple of al-Kindi. He also founded the "Balkhī school" of terrestrial mapping in Baghdad. Al-Balkhi is believed to have been the first to diagnose that mental illness can have psychological and physiological causes and he was the first to typify four types of emotional disorders: fear and anxiety; anger and aggression; sadness and depression; and obsessions. Biography al-Balkhi was born in 850 CE in a small village called Shamisitiyan, in an area called Balkh which is now part of Afghanistan. As a young man, around the time of al-Kindi's death, al-Balkhi travelled to Iraq.Who was Abu Zayd al-Balkhi? Malik Badri, introduction to Sustenance of the Soul, Gutenberg Press At this time Islamic culture was making strong efforts to absorb the knowledge of previous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adriano Balbi
Adriano Balbi (April 25, 1782 – March 14, 1848), Italian geographer, was born at Venice. The publication of his ''Prospetto politico-geografico dello stato attuale del globo'' (Venice, 1808) obtained his election to the chair of professor of geography at the college of San Michele at Murano; in 1811–1813 he was professor of physics at the Lyceum of Fermo, and afterwards became attached to the customs office at his native city. In 1820 he visited Portugal, and there collected materials for his ''Essai statistique sur le royaume de Portugal et d’Algarve'', published in 1822 at Paris, where the author resided from 1821 until 1832. This was followed by ''Variétés politiques et statistiques de la monarchie portugaise'', which contains some observations respecting that country under the Roman sway. In 1826 he published the first volume of his ''Atlas ethnographique du globe, ou classification des peuples anciens et modernes d’après leurs langues'', a work of great erudition. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Bakri
Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb ibn ʿAmr al-Bakrī (), or simply al-Bakrī (c. 1040–1094) was an Arab Andalusian historian and a geographer of the Muslim West. Life Al-Bakri was born in Huelva, the son of the sovereign of a short-lived principality established there by his family when the Caliphate of Cordoba fell in 1031. Al-Bakri belonged to the Arab tribe of Bakr. When his father was deposed by al-Mu'tadid (1042–1069) of the ruler of Taifa of Seville, he then moved to Córdoba, where he studied with the geographer al-Udri and the historian Ibn Hayyan. He spent his entire life in Al-Andalus, most of it in Seville and Almeria. While in Seville, he was there when El Cid arrived to collect tributes from Alfonso VI. He died in Córdoba without ever having travelled to the locations of which he wrote. Works Al-Bakri wrote about Europe, North Africa, and the Arabian peninsula. Only two of his works have survived. His ''Mu'jam m� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Edwin Baker
Oliver Edwin Baker (September 10, 1883 – December 2, 1949) was an American economic geographer. Education and early career Baker was born on September 10, 1883, in Tiffin, Ohio. His father, Edwin Baker, was a merchant, and his mother, Martha Ranney Thomas, had been a schoolteacher. His health in his early life was so poor that he did not begin school until the age of 12, before which time he was taught by his mother. After graduating public school he went on to Heidelberg College. He graduated with a B.S. degree in history and mathematics at the age of 19 in 1903, and took an M.S. degree in philosophy and sociology a year later. The next year he went on to Columbia University, receiving an M.A. in political science in 1905. He studied forestry at Yale University School of Forestry from 1907 to 1908, and later did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in agriculture. From 1908 to 1912 he worked with the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Agricultural Experi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bailey (topographer)
Thomas Bailey (31 July 1785 – 23 October 1856) was an English topographer and writer. Biography Bailey was born in Nottingham on 31 July 1785. His father, Philip Bailey, was Nottingham Town and County Gaoler for twenty years until 1820. Prior to his appointment, Bailey Sr. was engaged in the hosiery trade. Bailey Jr.'s education was received partly in a day school in his native town, and partly in a boarding school at Yorkshire. For a short while afterwards he continued his father's silk hosiery business, before entering the wine trade, in which he eventually prospered. In 1832, he was trading as a vintner from Wheeler Gate, Nottingham, Wheeler Gate. Politically liberal, he came forward in 1830 as a candidate for the representation of the borough of Nottingham, though was ultimately unsuccessful. In 1836, he was elected to the town council, and he continued to be a member for seven years. From 1845 to 1846, he became proprietor and editor of the ''Nottingham Mercury'', but h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Bailey (geographer)
Robert G. Bailey (born 1939) is an American geographer. In the mid-1990s the US Forest Service adapted the Bailey hierarchy of ecological units for use as the scientific framework for ecosystem management of the national forests. Bailey has a PhD in geography from the University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the .... References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Ernst Von Baer
Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer Edler von Huthorn (; – ) was a Baltic German scientist and explorer. Baer was a naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, and is considered a, or the, founding father of embryology. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a co-founder of the Russian Geographical Society, and the first president of the Russian Entomological Society, making him one of the most distinguished Baltic German scientists. Life Karl Ernst von Baer was born into the Baltic German noble Baer family ( et) in the Piep Manor ( et), Jerwen County, Governorate of Estonia (in present-day Lääne-Viru County, Estonia), as a knight by birthright. His patrilineal ancestors were of Westphalian origin and originated in Osnabrück. He spent his early childhood at Lasila manor, Estonia. He was educated at the Knight and Cathedral School in Reval (Tallinn) and the Imperial University of Dorpat (Tartu). In 1812, during his tenure at the univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zonia Baber
Mary Arizona "Zonia" Baber (August 24, 1862 – January 10, 1956) was an American geographer and geologist best known for developing methods for teaching geography. Her teachings emphasized experiential learning through field work and experimentation. Education and teaching career As Baber's hometown of Dudley, just east of Kansas, Illinois, did not offer education beyond elementary school, she moved 10 miles to Paris, Illinois, to attend high school where she lived with her uncle. After high school, she attended Normal school to train as a teacher. Baber started her career as a private school principal from 1886–1888. She then took a job teaching at Cook County Normal School (now split into Chicago State University and Northeastern Illinois University), where she served as the head of the Geography Department from 1890 to 1899. She taught the interdependence of structural geography, history and the natural sciences. These courses focused on primarily geography, continent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Félix De Azara
Félix de Azara y Perera (18 May 1742 – 20 October 1821) was a Spanish military officer, naturalist, and engineer. Life Félix de Azara y Perera was born on 18 May 1746 in Barbuñales, Aragon. He joined the army and attended a Spanish military academy. He was commissioned as an engineer, distinguishing himself on various expeditions. He spent the next thirteen years of his life in the military and rose to the rank of brigadier general in the Spanish Army. In 1777, Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of San Ildefonso. As dictated by the treaty, each nation would send a delegation to the Río de la Plata region to negotiate the border dispute between the Portuguese and Spanish colonies. Azara was selected as a member of this delegation, departing quickly for the New World. The Portuguese delegation, however, never arrived, and Azara ended up remaining in the region from 1781 to 1801. To pass the time, he decided to create an accurate map of the region. On these expedi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
