Carl Troll

Carl Troll Carl Theodor Troll (born December 24, 1899 in Gabersee, part of Wasserburg on the Inn, died July 21, 1975 in Bonn) is a German geographer, ecologist and traveler.

Born in the Bavarian countryside, he was initially fascinated by nature and studied botany. After the First World War, he studied mountainous regions of Scandinavia. In 1926 he set out with Alexander von Humboldt, in a 2.5 year tour of South America, visiting: Andy, Bolivia, Peru and Chile. In 1928-1929 he was in Ecuador, Colombia and Panama. In the 30s of the twentieth century he made a few months of travel through tropical and subtropical Africa. In the years 1933-1934 he was the scientific director of the German expedition to Nanga Parbat in the Himalayas, killing 16 people, and only two survived, including the Troll. After the Second World War, he headed the Commission on Ecology of the Highland Zone. In the years 1960-1964 he held the post of President of the International Geographic Union. In 1965 he spoke at the INQUA meeting in Wieliczka. He also visited the Tatras.

The main focus of Troll's interest was the geography of mountain environments. He introduced the concept of landscape geography, or geoecology, as well as the sub-zone (1938). The concept of three-dimensional geographic space was the work of life. Work Structural land, soliflux and frosts of land (1944) was a fundamental synthesis of periglacial phenomena, which has been present for many decades. He was also interested in the processes of snow ablation. In his work he also wrote about phenomena in the field of human geography, economic and social geography, but always in connection with the natural environment, mainly sculpture and climate. He wrote, among others. about pre-Columbian civilizations in America, about Andean Indians, and about the geography of Ethiopian and Iranian culture. He was the founder of one of Germany's leading geographical writings, "Erdkunde." Bibliography

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