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]
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).
- Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, K. (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.
- 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, 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 (Online: pdf).
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