Hans Bobek was Professor of Geography, University of Vienna

University of Vienna

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 (1951–1971), noted for his works on social geography

Social geography

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, urban geography

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 and the geography of the Near

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 and Middle East

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, then primaly known as the "Orient

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". He was, among others, the author of Iran: Probleme eines unterentwickelten Landes alter Kultur. His theory about rural and urban interactions was called Rentenkapitalismus.

Bobek was elected a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

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 in 1953 and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities

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 in 1968. In 1978, he received an honoraray doctorate from the Ruhr University Bochum.

Monographs

• Bobek, H. (1928): Innsbruck - Eine Gebirgsstadt, ihr Lebensraum und ihre Erscheinung, Engelhorn, Stuttgart, 152 p.
• Bobek, H. (1951): Die natürlichen Wälder und Gehölzfluren Irans, Bonner geographische Abhandlungen 8, Bonn, 62 p.
• Bobek, H. (1952): Südwestdeutsche Studien, Forschungen zur deutschen Landeskunde 62, Remagen, 67 p.
• Bobek, H. (1959): Features and Formation of the Great Kavir and Masileh, Teheran, 63 p.
• Bobek, H. (1962): Iran - Probleme eines unterentwickelten Landes alter Kultur, Diesterweg, Frankfurt a.o., 74 p.
• Bobek, H. and E. Lichtenberger (1966): Wien - Bauliche Gestalt und Entwicklung seit der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts, Böhlau, Graz a. Cologne, 394 p.

Selected articles

• Bobek, H. (1927): Grundfragen der Stadtgeographie. Geographischer Anzeiger 28, p. 213–224.
• Bobek, H. (1948): Stellung und Bedeutung der Sozialgeographie. Erdkunde 2, p. 118–125.
• Bobek, H. and J. Schmithüsen (1949): Die Landschaft im logischen System der Geographie. Erdkunde 3, p. 112–120.
• Bobek, H. (1959): Die Hauptstufen der Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsentfaltung in geographischer Sicht. Die Erde 90, p. 259–298.
• Bobek, H. (1962): The main stages in socio-economic evolution from a geographical point of view. In: Wagner, P.L. and M.W. Mikesell (eds.): Readings in Cultural Geography, Chicago, p. 218–247. (English translation of the former)

Further reading

• Wiche, K. (ed.) (1963): Festschrift Hans Bobek, Vienna.
• Wurzer, R. (ed.) (1964): Beiträge zur Raumforschung - Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Hans Bobek, Vienna.
• Dickinson, R. E. (1969): The makers of modern geography, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, p. 167–168.
• Lichtenberger, E. (1995): Hans Bobek (1903–1990). In: G. J. Martin (ed.): Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Vol. 16, Mansell, London, p. 12–22.
• Fassmann, H. (2009): Bobek, H. In: Kitchin, R. and N. Thrift (eds.): International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
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  , Elsevier, Amsterdam a.o., p. 324–325.