Jonathan Deininger Sauer (July 16, 1918
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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– May 25, 2008,
Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles
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Pacific Palisades was formally founded in 1921 by a Methodist organization, and in the years that followed bec ...
) was a botanist and plant geographer.
Jonathan D. Sauer, whose father was
Carl O. Sauer
Carl Ortwin Sauer (December 24, 1889 – July 18, 1975) was an American geographer. Sauer was a professor of geography at the University of California at Berkeley from 1923 until becoming professor emeritus in 1957. He has been called "the d ...
, graduated in 1939 from the
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
with a B.A. in history. He then entered the graduate program in geography at the
University of Wisconsin–Madison
A university () is an educational institution, institution of higher education, higher (or Tertiary education, tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. Universities ty ...
. His academic career was interrupted by WW II when he was drafted into the
U.S. Army Air Forces. He was stationed at the Pentagon, where he worked as a weather specialist. He married in 1946 and became a graduate student in botany, studying under
Edgar Anderson
Edgar Shannon Anderson (November 9, 1897 – June 18, 1969) was an American botanist. He introduced the term ''introgressive hybridization'' and his 1949 book of that title was an original and important contribution to botanical genetics. HIs wo ...
at
Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis (WashU or WUSTL) is a private research university with its main campus in St. Louis County, and Clayton, Missouri. Founded in 1853, the university is named after George Washington. Washington University is r ...
. Sauer graduated there in 1950 with a Ph.D. dissertation on the grain
amaranth
''Amaranthus'' is a cosmopolitan genus of annual or short-lived perennial plants collectively known as amaranths. Some amaranth species are cultivated as leaf vegetables, pseudocereals, and ornamental plants. Catkin-like cymes of densely pack ...
s. In 1950 he returned to the University of Wisconsin–Madison as an instructor in the botany department. His research dealt with "plant taxonomy, plant geography, economic botany and plant evolution." In 1959 he became a professor at U. W. Madison with a joint appointment in the departments of botany and geography. In 1971 Sauer became a professor in the geography department of the
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...
(UCLA), where he retired as professor emeritus.
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In 1946 he married Hilda Sievers (1922–2019), whom he met when they both worked at the Pentagon. They had a son, Richard (b. 1951).
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Selected publications
Articles
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References
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1918 births
2008 deaths
American geographers
20th-century geographers
21st-century geographers
20th-century American botanists
21st-century American botanists
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Washington University in St. Louis alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II