Alfred Hettner
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Alfred Hettner was a German geographer known for shaping modern regional geography and geographic methodology, significantly influencing later scholars such as Carl O. Sauer.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alfred Hettner canonical | 1 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
academic
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geographer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity |
19th century
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20th century ⓘ |
| citizenship | German ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Kingdom of Saxony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
German Empire
NERFINISHED
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Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1859-08-06 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1941-08-31 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Humboldt University of Berlin
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surface form:
University of Berlin
University of Bonn NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Leipzig ⓘ University of Strasbourg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
University of Heidelberg
NERFINISHED
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University of Leipzig NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Tübingen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Hettner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
geographic methodology
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geography ⓘ regional geography ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Alfred ⓘ |
| influenced |
Carl O. Sauer
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Richard Hartshorne NERFINISHED ⓘ modern regional geography ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Friedrich Ratzel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
developing geographic methodology
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influencing American cultural geography through Carl O. Sauer ⓘ shaping modern regional geography ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| movement | chorological approach in geography ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | German ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Die Geographie des Menschen
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Die Geographie, ihre Geschichte, ihr Wesen und ihre Methoden NERFINISHED ⓘ Geographie, ihre Geschichte, ihr Wesen und ihre Methoden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
geographer
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university professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Dresden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Heidelberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
director of the Geographical Institute at the University of Heidelberg
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professor of geography at the University of Heidelberg ⓘ |
| theoreticalContribution |
contributed to the methodology and philosophy of geography
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formulated the chorological view of geography as the study of areal differentiation ⓘ helped systematize regional geography as a core branch of the discipline ⓘ |
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