Hans Bobek (17 May 1903, in

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– 15 February 1990, in

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) was an

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. After his studies in geography at the

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, where Johann Sölch—a pupil of

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in Vienna—was his main teacher, he became professor of geography at the

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(1951–1971). Bobek is noted for his works on cultural and social geography,

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as well as on the regional geography of the

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and

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, then primarily known as the " Orient". He was, among others, the author of ''Iran: Probleme eines unterentwickelten Landes alter Kultur''. His theory about rural and urban interactions was called ''Rentenkapitalismus''; another important output was the ''theory of cultural steps'' (''Kulturstufentheorie''). Bobek was elected a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1953 and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 1968.List of deceased members
In 1978, he received an honorary doctorate from the

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Works

Monographs

* Bobek, H. (1928): Innsbruck - Eine Gebirgsstadt, ihr Lebensraum und ihre Erscheinung, Engelhorn, Stuttgart, 152 p. * Bobek, H. (1951): Die natürlichen Wälder und Gehölzfluren Irans, ''Bonner geographische Abhandlungen'' 8, Bonn, 62 p. * Bobek, H. (1952): Südwestdeutsche Studien, ''Forschungen zur deutschen Landeskunde'' 62, Remagen, 67 p. * Bobek, H. (1959): Features and Formation of the Great Kavir and Masileh, Teheran, 63 p. * Bobek, H. (1962): Iran - Probleme eines unterentwickelten Landes alter Kultur, Diesterweg, Frankfurt a.o., 74 p. * Bobek, H. and E. Lichtenberger (1966): Wien - Bauliche Gestalt und Entwicklung seit der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts, Böhlau, Graz a. Cologne, 394 p.

Selected articles

* Bobek, H. (1927): Grundfragen der Stadtgeographie. ''Geographischer Anzeiger'' 28, p. 213–224. * Bobek, H. (1948): Stellung und Bedeutung der Sozialgeographie. ''

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'' 2, p. 118–125. * Bobek, H. and J. Schmithüsen (1949): Die Landschaft im logischen System der Geographie. ''Erdkunde'' 3, p. 112–120. * Bobek, H. (1959): Die Hauptstufen der Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsentfaltung in geographischer Sicht. ''Die Erde'' 90, p. 259–298. * Bobek, H. (1962): The main stages in socio-economic evolution from a geographical point of view. In: Wagner, P.L. and M.W. Mikesell (eds.): Readings in Cultural Geography, Chicago, p. 218–247. (English translation of the former)

References

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