Allan Pred

From Geography

Allan Pred was a famous intellectual geographer who was born in the Bronx, New York City. Allen Pred wrotes in his life 20 books and more than 70 articles. His father was a French teacher, his mother a housewife. After his study he met his wife from Sweden. After their marrage they lived between the US and Sweden en raised their two children bi-linquistic.

Allan Pred wrote a lot of books and articles that are important literature in the social science. Titles like Place, Practice and Structure: Social and Spatial Transformation in Southern Sweden, 1750-1850 and Lost Words and Lost Worlds: Modernity and the Language of Everyday Life in Late-Nineteenth Century Stockholm (1990), makes his stature in the social science grew. His new status gives him a lot of awards and honoring for his work. He was honored by the Polisch Acedemy of Sciences and by the Association of American Geographers (2 times) but also awarded for different prices in the geographical science.

Pred was not only a geographical scientific writer and investigator. He also was a teacher at the University of California in Berkely. After a period of 45 years as a teacher he retired in May 2006. Allan Pred died in Januari 2007, at the age of 70.

References:

Watts M, In Memoriam Allan Richard Pred, Professor of Geography, Berkeley 1936 - 200, http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/senate/inmemoriam/allanrichardpred.htm, 5 October 2010.

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