Wolf-Dieter Hütteroth (born 28 November 1930 in

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, died 9 November 2010) was a German geographer and researcher.

Biography

Hütteroth studied at the

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and in 1953 became a member of the

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"Corps Guestphalia Marburg". He obtained his doctorate in

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in 1958 with a thesis supervised by Kurt Scharlau, and in 1966 was

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at the

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. From 1967 he was a lecturer with civil servant status at the

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. From 1969 he was a full professor at the

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. In 1972 he returned to Erlangen as a professor. He was mainly concerned with general historical geography, regional studies of the Islamic Orient and geomorphological processes. He was a recognised expert on

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and the

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. He became professor

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in 1996. In February 2009, the Marburg Department of Geography awarded him the "Golden Doctoral Certificate" His papers (11 boxes) are kept at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig.Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter (1930–2010)
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Works

* ''Bergnomaden und Yaylabauern im mittleren kurdischen Taurus'' (= ''Marburger geographische Schriften.'' H. 11). Geographisches Institut der Universität Marburg, Marburg 1959 (Dissertation, Universität Marburg, 1958). * ''Ländliche Siedlungen im südlichen Inneranatolien in den letzten vierhundert Jahren'' (= ''Göttinger geographische Abhandlungen.'' Bd. 46). Geographisches Institut der Universität Göttingen, Göttingen 1968 (Habilitationsschrift, Universität Göttingen, 1965). * * ''Palästina und Transjordanien im 16. Jahrhundert: Wirtschaftsstruktur ländlicher Siedlungen nach osmanischen Steuerregistern'' (= ''Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients.'' Reihe B: ''Geisteswissenschaften.'' Nr. 33). Reichert, Wiesbaden 1978. * ''Türkei.'' Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1982; 2., vollständig neubearbeitete Auflage (with Volker Höhfeld) 2002, ISBN 978-3-534-13712-1. * with Nejat Göyünç: ''Land an der Grenze: Osmanische Verwaltung im heutigen türkisch-syrisch-irakischen Grenzgebiet im 16. Jahrhundert.'' Eren, Istanbul 1997.

Literature

Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender ''Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender'' (English: "Kürschner's Encyclopedia of German Scholars"), formerly subtitled ''Lexikon der lebenden deutschsprachigen Wissenschaftler'' ("Encyclopedia of Living German-Speaking Scholars"), is a German ...

, 22. Ausgabe (2009). Bd. 2, S. 1770. * Hans Becker (de): ''Länderkundler der Türkei und Historischer Geograph des Osmanischen Reiches: Wolf-Dieter Hütteroth (1930–2010)''. Mitt. d. Fränk. Geograph. Ges., 58 (2011), S. 363–378
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External links

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* Hans Becker (de)
Geograph des Osmanischen Reiches: Wolf-Dieter Hütteroth (1930-2010)

References

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