Richard Hartshorne, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Richard Hartshorne

American Geographer

Date of Birth: 12-Dec-1899

Date of Death: 05-Nov-1992

Profession: geographer, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Richard Hartshorne (December 12, 1899 – November 5, 1992) was a prominent American geographer, and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who specialized in economic and political geography and the philosophy of geography.
He is known in particular for his methodological work The Nature of Geography, published in 1939.