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Biography of Carl Ortwin SauerName: Carl Ortwin SauerBirth Date: December 24, 1889 Death Date: July 18, 1975 Place of Birth: Warrenton, Missouri, United States Nationality: American Gender: Male Occupations: geographer, anthropologist Carl Ortwin Sauer Carl Ortwin Sauer (1889-1975) was an American geographer and anthropologist with a strong interest in historical fieldwork and other forms of geographical research.On December 24, 1889, Carl Sauer was born in Warrenton, Missouri. His father taught at the Central Wesleyan College, a German Methodist enterprise, since closed. His parents sent young Sauer to a school at Calur, Württemberg, and he gained his first degree from Central Western College before his nineteenth birthday. In 1915 he earned a doctorate of philosophy from the University of Chicago, and from 1915 to 1922 he served on the staff at the University of Michigan. In 1923 he went to the University of California, Berkeley, where he remained to his retirement in 1957.Sauer's first paper was an "outline for fieldwork" in geography, published in 1915 and developed further in 1919 and 1921 in the Geographical Review and the Annals of American Geographers. Physical geographers in America already had a long and distinguished …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…cultures, the destruction of plant and animal life, the strivings of man for life under adverse conditions, and the effects of climatic change all attracted the scholarly attention of Carl Sauer. Apart from a school text, Man in Nature: America before the Days of the White Man (1939); the Bowman Memorial Lectures, published as Agricultural Origins and Dispersals (1952); and The Early Spanish Main (1967); and Seventeenth Century North America (1971), virtually all his writing was in the form of articles, scholarly, fascinating, persuasive, and well documented, if at times arousing the opposition of readers. He died on July 18, 1975 and was interred in his hometown of Warrenton, Missouri. Further Reading Sauer's Land and Life, edited by John Leighly (1963), was a selection of his papers with an introduction by Leighly. Sauer's work was briefly discussed in Richard J. Chorley and Peter Haggett, eds., Models in Geography (1967), and Robert E. Dickinson, The Makers of Modern Geography (1969). |