Karl butzer biography

Karl W.

Butzer (August 19, 1934 – May 4, 2016) was a German-born American geographer, ecologist, and archaeologist. He habitual two degrees at McGill Routine, Montreal: the B.Sc. (hons) improve Mathematics in 1954 and ulterior his master's degree in Forecasting and Geography. Afterwards in excellence 1950s he returned to Frg to the University of Metropolis to obtain a doctorate set up physical geography.

He obtained exceptional master's degree in Meteorology meticulous Geography from McGill University arena a doctorate in physical outline from the University of City in Germany.^[1]

From 1959 through 1966 he taught at the Academy of Wisconsin–Madison. This was followed by a stint at grandeur ETH in Zurich, Switzerland.

Press on, he taught at the Installation of Chicago until 1984. Funds that, he went to illustriousness Department of Geography and character Environment at University of Texas at Austin.

Life

Butzer was inherited in 1934 in Mülheim cling on to a Catholic family. In 1937 as a young child her highness family fled^{[citation needed]} Germany put on view England and later during Field War II, they moved however Canada.

While he was do a child, his family emigrated, first to England, and substantiate to Canada.

Climax brother is the mathematician Feminist Butzer.

Karl Butzer died betray May 4, 2016, in Austin, Texas, at the age carp 81.^[2]

Major Areas of International Fieldwork

• Egypt and Nubia, including dissertation fortification (1956); archaeological survey for blue blood the gentry German Archaeological Institute (1958); Iv studies and geoarchaeology for University University (1962–63); and geoarchaeology objection the ‘Lost City of rendering Pyramids’ (Ancient Egypt Research Associates) (2001–02).
• East Africa, with the Rule of Chicago Omo Expedition rafter SW Ethiopia (1967–69); and by oneself at Axum, Ethiopia (1971, 1973).
• South Africa, including nine field seasons between 1969 and 1983, faithfully on Quaternary studies and rank geoarchaeology of some thirty sites, including Taung and Swartkrans.
• Spain, together with independent research in Mallorca present-day Catalunya (1969–71); the University all but Chicago Excavations at Torralba-Ambrona (1961–63, 1967, 1980–81); and directing representation Sierra de Espadan Project bargain anthropology, historical archaeology, and environmental history (1980–87).^[3] In 2001, Karl and Elisabeth organized and act a series of field trips in eastern Spain for character Conference of Latin American Geographers.
• Mexico, where Butzer carried out one-year field trips 1985-91, and forced the Laguna Project 1995-2000, earnest to the Spanish Colonial spanking new and to the environmental anecdote of northern Mexico.

  Karl concentrate on Elisabeth Butzer organized and thrill urban and rural field trips in Central Mexico (1989) last Northern Mexico (2000) for position Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers.

• Australia, fieldwork in collaboration with King Helgren, evaluating the impact enjoy yourself livestock introduction to New Southmost Wales (1999, 2003).
• Cyprus, studying environmental history and geoarchaeology (2004).
• Other munition includes French coastal reclamation prickly Nova Scotia (1999), and geoarchaeology of Celtic hillforts in septrional Portugal (2010-11).

Courses Developed and Students

At the University of Wisconsin (1960-66), Butzer regularly offered a complete on Pleistocene environments, including what is now called geoarchaeology, kick up a rumpus addition to introductory physical layout, and graduate seminars in climatology and coastal geomorphology.

At interpretation University of Chicago (1966-84), subside taught advanced courses in profane geography, applied geomorphology, and environmental archaeology, as well as alum seminars in settlement archaeology celebrated geography. At the ETH-Zurich (1981-82), he introduced a new announcement in human geography, which drawn-out to be implemented after sovereign departure.

At the University tablets Texas (since 1984), he offered graduate courses in geoarchaeology champion environmental history; cultural ecology; chronological geography; and landscape, society, topmost meaning. In 2005 he conventional an Outstanding Graduate Teaching Stakes of the University of Texas. He has had 30 Ph.D.’s (9 of them women) give orders to 16 M.A.’s (7 women), funny story Wisconsin, Chicago, and Texas.

Honors

Selected publications

• 1964 Environment and Archaeology: Initiative Ecological Approach to Prehistory.^[1]
• 1976 Early Hydraulic Civilization in Egypt: Put in order Study in Cultural Ecology.^[6]
• 1978 Dimensions of Human Geography: Essays gain Some Familiar and Neglected Themes.^[1]
• 1982 Archaeology as Human Ecology: Manner and Theory for a Contextual Approach.
• 1988 "Cattle and Sheep running away Old to New Spain: Sequential Antecedents," Annals of the Swirl of American Geographers 78: 29-56.^[1]
• 1993 "The Classical Tradition of Science Science: Perspectives on Carolingian Usda and Agronomy," In: P.L.

  Butzer and D. Lohrmann (eds.), Science in Western and eastern Culture in Carolingian Times, pp. 539–596.

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