Carl O. Sauer
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Carl O. Sauer Net Worth

Carl O. Sauer was a prominent American geographer of the twentieth century who was an advocate of the effect of human intervention on the landscape, cultures, societies, history and environment of various areas. He was critical of environmental determinism and the government's lack of policy to promote sustainable land use. He introduced the concept of 'landscape' to American geography, which could be either 'natural' or 'cultural', and argued that geography is more dependent on humans than nature. He suggested that the 'landscape' approach is a viable alternative to environmental determinism, which studies the impact of humans on the environment.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Geographer
Birth Day December 18, 1924
Birth Place Warrenton, Missouri, US, United States
Age 96 YEARS OLD
Died On July 18, 1975
Birth Sign Capricorn

💰 Net worth

Carl O. Sauer, a renowned geographer in the United States, is projected to have a net worth ranging from $100,000 to 1 million dollars by 2024. Widely recognized for his significant contributions to the field of geography, Sauer's invaluable research, publications, and teachings have left a lasting impact. His expertise in human geography, agricultural history, and cultural landscapes has earned him a prominent position in academia. With an impressive net worth estimated to grow in the coming years, Carl O. Sauer continues to be revered as an influential figure in the world of geography.

Biography/Timeline

1915

Sauer, of German ancestry, was born in Warrenton, Missouri and graduated from the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. in 1915.

1930

Sauer graduated many doctoral students, the majority completing dissertations on Latin American and Caribbean topics and thereby founding the Berkeley School of Latin Americanist Geography. The first generation consisted of Sauer's own students: Fred B. Kniffen (1930), Peveril Meigs (1932), Donald Brand (1933), Henry Bruman (1940), Felix W. McBryde (1940), Robert Bowman (1941), Dan Stanislawski (1944), Robert C. West (1946), James J. Parsons (1948), Edwin Doran (1953), Philip Wagner (1953), Brigham Arnold (1954), Homer Aschmann (1954), B. LeRoy Gordon (1954), Gordon Merrill (1957), Donald Innis (1958), Marvin W. Mikesell (1958), Carl Johannessen (1959), Clinton Edwards (1962), and Leonard Sawatzky (1967).

1935

He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the American Geographical Society in 1935, and its Daly Medal in 1940.

1959

Among them, Parsons remained at the University of California at Berkeley and became prolific in directing Latin Americanist doctoral dissertations. His doctoral students formed the second generation of the Berkeley School: Campbell Pennington (1959), william Denevan (1963), David Harris (1963), David Radell (1964), Thomas Veblen (1975), Karl Zimmerer (1987), Paul F. Starrs (1989), John B. Wright (1990), and David J. Larson (1994). Apart from Latin America, Parsons' Ph.D. students such as Alvin W. Urquhart (1962) also worked in Africa.

1967

Denevan became a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and, in turn, produced a third generation: Daniel Gade (1967), Bernard Nietschmann (1970), Roger Byrne (1972), Roland Bergmann (1974), Billie Lee Turner II (1974), Gregory Knapp (1984), Kent Mathewson (1987), John M. Treacy (1989), and Oliver Coomes (1992). Mikesell became a professor at the University of Chicago and also produced a third generation.

1979

A member of the fourth generation, william E. Doolittle studied with Turner, earned the Ph.D. in 1979, became a professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment at University of Texas at Austin, and has extended the school into the fifth generation: Dean P. Lambert (1992), Andrew Sluyter (1995), Emily H. Young (1995), Eric P. Perramond (1999), Phil L. Crossley (1999), Jerry O. (Joby) Bass (2003), Maria G. Fadiman (2003), and Matthew Fry (2008).

2014

Sauer was a fierce critic of environmental determinism, which was the prevailing theory in geography when he began his career. He proposed instead an approach variously called "landscape morphology" or "cultural history." This approach involved the inductive gathering of facts about the human impact on the landscape over time. Sauer rejected positivism, preferring particularist and historicist understandings of the world. He drew on the work of Anthropologist Alfred Kroeber and was influenced by German Latin Americanist geographer Oskar Schmieder—a disciple of Hettner—, and later critics accused him of introducing a "superorganic" concept of culture into geography. Politically Sauer was a conservative, but expressed concern about the way that modern capitalism and centralized government were destroying the cultural diversity and environmental health of the world. He believed that agriculture, and domestication of plants and animals had an effect on the physical environment.

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