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Fred Kurt Schaefer (July 7, 1904 – June 6, 1953) was a geographer. He is considered one of the pioneers of quantitative revolution. Kurt Schaefer was a whole man, a conscious member of the human race, a scientist, and an intellectual who remembered his humanist commitment. —
Fred K. Schaefer, “ Exceptionalism in Geography: A Methodological Examination,” Annals, Association of American Geographers, Vol. 43 (1953), pp. 226 – 49.
- William Bunge
- 1979
FRED K. SCHAEFER** The State University of Iowa HE methodology of a field is not a grab bag of special techniques. In geog-raphy such techniques as map making, "methods" of teaching, or historical accounts of the development of the field are still often mistaken for methodol-ogy.
A Urban Geography 3 militant leftist in 1920s Berlin, Schaefer ended up in Iowa, where his radicalism drew the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the 1950s (Bunge, 1979). At the...
Lasting between 1953 and 1959, the debate was between Fred K. Schaefer (1904–1953) at the University of Iowa and Richard Hartshorne (1899–1991) at the University of Wisconsin 180 miles (290 kms) up the road. For these two protagonists, the dispute was about the very soul of geography.
This document provides a biography of Fred K. Schaefer: 1) Schaefer was born in 1904 in Berlin, Germany to a working class family. He had an early interest in politics and joined the Social Democrats at age 17. 2) He studied political science and geography at university in Germany in the 1920s while also working to support himself.
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2019. This review based article entails that in the history of geography, one of the most exciting philosophical and methodological debates is the dualism between regional and systematic geography. This….
