About Elisabeth Gottschalk
Lived 1912 – 1989 (aged 76). Elisabeth Gottschalk was a Dutch and German geographer, university teacher and historian.
Maria Karoline Elisabeth Gottschalk (Also Marie Karoline Elisabeth Gottschalk.)
In 1949, Gottschalk started studying social geography at the University of Utrecht, and graduated in 1952. In 1955, she obtained her doctorate cum laude with Historische Geografie van Westelijk Zeeuws-Vlaanderen In 1962, she became lector historical geography at the University of Amsterdam. In 1977, the third and final volume was published which was described by the Leeuwarder Courant as the standard work on floods in the Netherlands.
Gottschalk retired on 1 January 1978, and died on 14 September 1989 in Amsterdam, at the age of 76.
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Who was Elisabeth Gottschalk?
Dutch historical geographer (1912-1989)
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Elisabeth Gottschalk was born on 28 October 1912 in Mönchengladbach.
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Elisabeth Gottschalk died on 14 September 1989 in Amsterdam.
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Elisabeth Gottschalk was a geographer, university teacher and historian.
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Elisabeth Gottschalk was Dutch and German.
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