Hans Bobek

Hans Bobek (17 May 1903, in Klagenfurt – 15 February 1990, in Vienna) was an Austrian geographer.

After his studies in geography at the University of Innsbruck, where Johann Sölch—a pupil of Albrecht Penck in Vienna—was his main teacher, he became professor of geography at the University of Vienna (1951–1971).

He was, among others, the author of Iran: Probleme eines unterentwickelten Landes alter Kultur.

[2] In 1978, he received an honorary doctorate from the Ruhr University Bochum.

He was awarded the Busk Medal by the Royal Geographical Society in 1981.