!!!Pillewizer, Wolfgang

b. Steyr (Upper Austria), July 4, 1911, geographer and cartographer. 
1948-1958 at the Geographic-Cartographical Institute in Munich, from 
1958 university professor in Dresden and 1971-1981 professor at the 
Institute of Cartography and Reproduction Technology at the University 
of Technology in Vienna. Took part in many expeditions (also 
scientific director of the Austro-German Himalayas-Karakorum 
expedition 1954, Spitzbergen 1962-1965), concentrated mainly on 
geomorphological studies and the cartography of high mountains. 1988 a 
summit (3,000 m) in Salzburg, 2 km north of the 
Grossvenediger mountain between Ober- and Untersulzbachkees was named 
after him.

!Works
Die kartograph. Strukturformen und die Methoden der graph. 
Gestaltung thematischer Karten, 1970; Felsdarstellung aus Orthophotos, 
1976; Zw. Alpen, Arktis und Karakorum, 1986.


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