geographers
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carl RITTER
[germany:1779-1859] -
-Cultural Geographer
-"Die Erdkunde" 19 volumes about africa + asia -
Alexander VON HUMBOLDT
[prussia:1760-1859] -
-Modern Geography
-1797, traveled S.america then to mid america
-COSMOS -
PTOLOMY
[rome:2nd century AD] -
-Astronomer
-map projections
-gazetteer - mary SHELLEY
- wrote frankenstein in 1818
- isaac CLINE
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involved in hurricane in Galveston TX,
- head of Galveston Area
- home was shelter to 50 other relatives. wife died. he + children survived - wyvilled THOMPSON
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-HMS challenger
-1st to reach ANARCTIC CIRCLE and cross the ice barrier -
thomas MALTHUS
[england:1766-1834] -
-POPULATION
-theology background
-wrote "ESSAY ON PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION"
thinks pop. will be controlled in 4 ways
-war
-diseases
-famine
-natural disasters -
johann VON THUNEN
[germany:1783-1850] -
-economic geographer
-landlord in estate of germany
-AGRICULTURAL PROFIT
-wrote "ISOLATED STATE" (farm to market/the RING theory)[pg357] -
william morris DAVIS
[america:1850-1934] -
1st noted geographer/geologist
-focus on GEOMORPHOLOGY(land form features)
-cycle of erosion theory [youth, maturity, old age]
-founded the AAG
*Assocation of American Geographer- 1904 -
carl o. SAUER
[missouri ozarks:1889-1975] -
-cultural geographer(human activity and environment)
-president 2 times for AAG
-wrote "AGRICULTURAL ORIGINE + DESPERSAL" [domestication of plants and animals.] -
ellen SEMPLE
[louisvilled, KY:1868-1932] -
1st female geographer
-ANTHROPOGEOGRAPHER
*thinks religion helped shaped environment
-wrote "INFLUENCES OF GEOGRAPHIC ENVIRONMENT" -1911
-president of AAG in 1921 -
walter CHRISTALLER
[germany:1893-1960] -
wrote "CENTRAL PLACES OF SOUTHERN GERMANY"
-the central place theory: spatial urban theory of urban center. (the hexagon patter/hierarchial urban pattern) pg404 -
fred b. KNIFFEN
[michigan:1900-199] -
founder + father of FOLK GEOGRAPHY
-ANTHROPOGEOGRAPHY
125 books over folk, housing, bridges, etc... - jack DANGERMOND
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introduced ESRI
*Environmental Systems Research Institute