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Richard Hartshorne (December 12, 1899 – November 5, 1992) was a prominent American geographer, and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who was specialized in economic and political geography and the philosophy of geography. He is known in particular for his methodological work ''The Nature of Geography'', published in 1939.〔New York Times Obituary, "Richard Hartshorne; Geographer Was 92", November 10, 1992, (Eprint )〕 == Biography == Born in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, Hartshorne completed his undergraduate studies at Princeton University in 1920, and his doctorate at the University of Chicago in 1924 Hartshorne taught at the University of Minnesota from 1924 to 1940, and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1945 to 1970. In the war-time interruption from 1941 to 1945 he established and ran the Geography Division in the branch of Research and Analysis of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).〔McMaster, Robert and McMaster, Susanna, "A History of Twentieth-Century American Academic Cartography" in ''Cartography and Geographic Information Science'', v.29, n. 3, July, 2002, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, Gaithersburg, MD. (U of Wisconsin PDF Eprint )〕 Hartshorne was president of the Association of American Geographers in 1949. The association gave him its top award in 1960. He was also awarded an Doctor of Laws (''honoris causa'') from Clark University, April 17, 1971, and the Victoria medal from the Royal Geographical Society in 1984. He died of cancer at his home in Madison, Wisconsin.〔Martin, Geoffrey J., "In Memoriam: Richard Hartshorne, 1899-1992", ''Annals of the Association of American Geographers'', Vol. 84, No. 3 (Sep., 1994), pp. 480-492, (JSTOR )〕 Among his brothers was the prominent American philosopher Charles Hartshorne. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Hartshorne」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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