Hassinger, Hugo#
b. Vienna, Nov. 8, 1877, d. Vienna, March 13, 1952, geographer. From 1918 taught in Basle, from 1927 in Freiburg im Breisgau, 1931-1950 university professor in Vienna, he was co-founder and chairman of the Commission for Regional Planning and Reconstruction at the Academy of Sciences; president (1937-1951), and later honorary president of the Austrian Geographers´ Society. Co-publisher of specialist journals; studied geomorphology; later also devoted himself to political and human geography, a pioneer of regional planning and one of the most significant human geographers in the German-speaking area.
Works#
Geomorpholog. Studien aus dem inneralpinen Wr. Becken, 1905; Kunsthistorischer Atlas der Stadt Wien, 1916; Geograph. Grundlagen der Geschichte, 1931; Die Geographie des Menschen (Anthropogeography), 1937; Burgenland-Atlas, 1941 (in co-operation with F. Bodo); Boden und Lage Wiens, 1946; Oe. Wesen und Schicksal, verwurzelt in seiner geograph. Lage, 1948; Oe. Anteil an der Erforschung der Erde, 1949; Atlas von NOe., 1951ff. (in co-operation with E. Arnberger).Literature#
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