Wolf-Dieter Hütteroth Explained

Wolf-Dieter Hütteroth (born 28 November 1930 in Chojna, died 9 November 2010) was a German geographer and researcher.

Biography

Hütteroth studied at the University of Marburg and in 1953 became a member of the Studentenverbindung "Corps Guestphalia Marburg".[1]

He obtained his doctorate in Marburg in 1958 with a thesis supervised by Kurt Scharlau,[2] and in 1966 was habilitated at the University of Göttingen. From 1967 he was a lecturer with civil servant status at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg. From 1969 he was a full professor at the University of Cologne. 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 Turkey and the Kurds. He became professor emeritus in 1996.

In February 2009, the Marburg Department of Geography awarded him the "Golden Doctoral Certificate"[3]

His papers (11 boxes) are kept at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig.[4]

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  1. Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 54/510.
  2. Web site: 2022-05-09 . 1959 . de . Bergnomaden und Yaylabauern im mittleren kurdischen Taurus / Wolf-Dieter Hütteroth .
  3. https://www.uni-marburg.de/archive/news/2009-2-11-altmeister-und-nachwuchswissenschaftler.html Altmeister und Nachwuchswissenschaftler: Ehrungen am Fachbereich Geographie der Philipps-Universität
  4. https://leibniz-ifl.de/forschung/forschungsinfrastrukturen/archiv-fuer-geographie/nachlaesse/nachlaesse-h Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter (1930–2010)