Alfred Hettner was a German

Germany

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 geographer

Geographer

A geographer is a scholar whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society.Although geographers are historically known as people who make maps, map making is actually the field of study of cartography, a subset of geography...

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He is known for his concept of chorology

Chorology

Chorology can mean* the study of the causal relations between geographical phenomena occurring within a particular region* the study of the spatial distribution of organisms....

, the study of places and regions.

Alfred Hattner was a pupil of Richthofen and Ratzel. His book 'Europe' was published in 1907. According to him, geography is a chorological science or it is a study of regions. Hettner rejected the view that geography could be either general or regional. Geography like other fields of learning, must deal in both the unique things (regional geography) and with universal (general geography), but the study of regions is the main field of geography.

Literary works

• Methodische Zeit- und Streitfragen, in: Geographische Zeitschrift, Bd. 29 (1923), S. 49-50
• Die Geographie, ihre Geschichte, ihr Wesen und ihre Methoden, Breslau, 1927

External links

• http://www.kts.villa-bosch.de/deutsch/presse/hettnerlecture.pdf