Hans Wilhelmsson Ahlmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Hans Wilhelmsson Ahlmann

Swedish glaciologist and diplomat

Date of Birth: 14-Nov-1889

Place of Birth: Karlsborg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden

Date of Death: 10-Mar-1974

Profession: diplomat, geographer, explorer, glaciologist

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Hans Wilhelmsson Ahlmann

  • Hans Jakob Konrad Wilhelmsson Ahlmann (14 November 1889 – 10 March 1974) was a Swedish geographer, glaciologist, and diplomat. Born in Karlsborg, Sweden, Ahlmann grew up in Stockholm.
  • He studied with Professor Gerard De Geer at Stockholm University, and gained his doctorate in 1915 on a doctoral thesis on Sweden's Lake Ragundasjön.
  • The same year, he became an associate professor of geography at the University of Stockholm.
  • He was appointed Associate Professor of Geography at Uppsala University in 1920 and professor at the Stockholm University from 1929 until 1950. He was a very active field worker and led an expedition to Nordaustlandet (North East Land) in the Svalbard archipelago in Norway in the spring of 1931.
  • In 1934 he returned to Svalbard with Professor Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, this time to explore the glaciers on Vestspitsbergen.
  • He examined the Vatnajökull (Vatna Glacier) in Iceland in 1936, and led in the winter of 1939-40 the Swedish-Norwegian study of glaciers in Greenland.
  • In 1946, he led investigations of glaciers on Mount Kebnekaise in Sweden.
  • He was one of the initiators of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition in 1949-52, and leader of the expedition's Swedish committee. In 1937 he was awarded the Hans Egede Medal by the Royal Danish Geographical Society.
  • He was elected to the Swedish Academy of Science in 1939 and in the same year awarded the Patron's Gold Medal of the British Royal Geographical Society.
  • During the 1940s, Ahlmann was an international authority on the relationship between climate and glacier size, concluding that the glaciers were retreating.
  • He was awarded the Cullum Geographical Medal of the American Geographical Society in 1950.
  • He was a member of several other scientific academies, among them the Prussian Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.Ahlmann, whose Norwegian wife gave him a good network of contacts in Norway, was a member of the Swedish-Norwegian Association during World War II, and was the 1950-1956 Swedish ambassador in Oslo.
  • From 1956 to 1960, he served as president of the International Geographical Union.

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