Simion Mehedinţi's Contribution to Modern Romanian Geography

Armed with a scholarship to find an answer to the question "What is geography?" Simion Mehedinţi's studies took him to continental Europe's three main centers of geographic thought: Paris, Berlin, and Leipzig. We explore how his innovative ideas flourished, especially in Leipzig...

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Published inThe Professional geographer Vol. 70; no. 3; pp. 504 - 512
Main Authors Ianoş, Ioan, Săgeată, Radu, Sorensen, Anthony
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Routledge 03.07.2018
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
analysis of geospheres
análisis de las geoesferas, escuelas geográficas europeas, centros de atención y métodos geográficos, Simion Mehedinti, Rumania
European geographical schools
Geographers
geographical focus and methods
Geography
Geopolitics
Geosphere
Romania
Simion Mehedinţi
陆圈分析, 欧洲地理学派, 地理焦点与方法, 罗马尼亚, 西米恩．梅赫丁茨
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Summary:Armed with a scholarship to find an answer to the question "What is geography?" Simion Mehedinţi's studies took him to continental Europe's three main centers of geographic thought: Paris, Berlin, and Leipzig. We explore how his innovative ideas flourished, especially in Leipzig under Ratzel. The first Romanian geographer, Mehedinţi, must be credited with having defined geography as a science of mutual relationships between geospheres. This thinking reached its pinnacle in two complex books, Terra and Ethnos, the contents of which we synthetically explore. We also trace the unfavorable historical and geopolitical conditions that led to this pioneering work being little recognized worldwide.
ISSN:0033-0124
1467-9272
DOI:10.1080/00330124.2018.1432365