Fred K. Schaefer (Berlin, 7 July 1904 - USA, 6 June 1953) was a geographer. He is considered as one of the pioneers of quantitative revolution. Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ... July 7 is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 177 days remaining. ... 1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining // 1508 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friulia by Venetian forces; he is forced to sign a three-year truce and cede several territories to Venice 1513... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Geography (from the Greek words Ge (γη) or Gaea (γαια), both meaning Earth, and graphein (γραφειν) meaning to describe or to writeor to map) is the study of the Earths features and of the distribution of life on the earth, including human life and the effects of human activity. ... The quantitative revolution was one of the four major turning points in the history of geography (the other three being regional geography, environmental determinism and critical geography). ...

	Fred K Schaefer was a whole man, a conscious member of the human race, a scientist, and an intellectual who remembered his humanist commitment.
	— William Bunge 1968[1]

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Life

Fred K. Schaefer was born in Berlin, Germany in the family of metal worker ^[2]. He was involved in politics as a member of Social Democratic party and after the rise of fascism he fled from Nazi Germany. Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ... Fascism (IPA: ) is a political ideology and mass movement that seeks to place the nation, defined in exclusive biological, cultural, and/or historical terms, above all other sources of loyalty, and to create a mobilized national community. ...

Later in the United States he became an inaugural member of the Department of Geography at Iowa. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

He died of a heart attack on June 6, 1953.

Works

He is well-known for his article in flagship american periodical, Annals, Association of American Geographers called Exceptionalism in geography: A Methodological Examination^[3] It was both a repudiation of Richard Hartshorne's position in United States, and a call for a scientific approach to geography based upon the search for geographical laws (the ultimate form of a scientific generalization). Schaefer died before his article even appeared in print, and so he was never able to elaborate his argument, nor defend himself from Hartshorne's subsequent attack. But the article became a rallying point for the younger generation of economic geographers who were intent on reinventing the discipline as a science, or spatial science as it was later dubbed (Economic geography should move away from regionalism and become more scientific). Richard Hartshorne (1899-1992), was a prominent American geographer. ... Economic geography is the study of the loon, distribution and spatial organization of economic activities across the Earth. ...

References

1. ^ Bunge, William, (1968): Fred K. Schaefer and the Science of Geography; Harvard Papers in Theoretical Geography, Special Papers Series, Paper A
2. ^ Bunge, William, (1979): Fred K. Schaefer and the Science of Geography; Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 69, No. 1, Special Issue: Seventy-Five Years of American Geography (Mar., 1979), pp. 128-132
3. ^ Schaefer, F.K. (1953): Exceptionalism in Geography: A Methodological Examination, A.A.A.G., vol. 43, pp. 226-245.