Daniel W. Gade, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Daniel W. Gade

American geographer and university professor

Date of Birth: 28-Sep-1936

Place of Birth: Niagara Falls, New York, United States

Date of Death: 15-Jun-2015

Profession: geographer, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Daniel Wynne Gade (September 28, 1936 – June 15, 2015) was a professor of Geography at the University of Vermont and a prominent member of the Berkeley School of Latin Americanist Geography.
His main interests were in the fields of cultural geography and historical geography, as well as ethnobotany, cultural ecology, and mountain research.
His regional focus was on the Central Andes of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia; moreover, Gade also investigated cultural landscapes of francophone Canada, Spain and Portugal, highland Madagascar, southern France and northern Italy.
He was born in Niagara Falls, New York. He received the bachelor's degree from Valparaiso University (Indiana) in 1959, a Master of Arts from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1960, and a Master of Science, followed by a Doctorate, from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1967.
His dissertation on human plant use in the Vilcanota Valley of Peru was published in the series Biogeographica, then edited by German geographer Josef Schmithüsen.
During his travels in South America, he also met the Nazi scientist Heinz Brücher and analyzed his work in a publication.
He died in Burlington, Vermont on June 15, 2015.