王德基教授和《汉中盆地地理考察报告》

PROF. WANG DEJI AND THE GEOGRAPHICAL INVESTIGATION REPORT OF THE HANZHONG BASIN

王德基教授，１９３４年毕业于南京中央大学地理系。后考取洪堡奖学金，赴德国留学，专攻气候、地质地貌，１９４０年获博士学位回国。王德基追随著名地理学家费思孟达９年之久，深受德国区域学派的影响，成为我国近、现代区域地理学和干旱区地貌学的典型代表学者。他还是兰州大学地理系创建人。以其为首完成的区域地理著作《汉中盆地地理考察报告》，充分体现了区域特性、区域差异在研究方法上的重要价值，倍受称述。这一区域研究的成功范例，堪称科学分析与解释性描述之结晶，区域综合与统一性研究之样板。

Prof. Wang Deji (1909～1968) graduated from the Geography Department of Central University in Nanjing in 1934. After that, he was awarded the Humboldt Scholarship and went to Germany to specialize in climate, geology and geomorphology. In 1940, he received doctor's degree, and then returned to his native land. At home and abroad, Prof. Wang had been following Prof. H. V. Wissmann, a famous geographer, for nine years. He was deeply influenced by the academic thought of regional school of Germany, which made him become a typically representative scholar of modern regional geography and of arid regional geomorphology. He was also the founder of the Geography Department of Lanzhou University. A work of regional geography, the Geographical Investigation Report of the Hanzhong Basin, is acclaimed particularly, which is completed chiefly by him and fully embodies the great value of regional characteristic and regional difference on study method. This successful example of regional study deserves to be called a crystallization of scientific analysis and explanatory description, a templet of regional synthesis and unity study, and is worthy of being studied and carried forward.