Geographers

Elizabeth Baigent is University Reader in the History of Geography at the University of Oxford, UK. She is Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Higher Education Academy.André Reyes Novaes is an Associate Professor at the Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil. He is currently an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Geography at the Royal Holloway University of London, UK, and a member of the commission on the history of geography at the International Geographical Union.

• Introduction1 - Interinstitutional mobility 1 Moritz Friedrich Wagner (1813–1887) - Jörn Seemann (Ball State University, USA)2. Oskar Schmieder (1891-1980) - Santiago LLorens (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina) and Karsten Gaebler (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany)3. Theodoro Fernandes Sampaio (1855-1937) - Caroline Bulhões Nunes Vaz (Instituto Federal da Paraíba, Brazil) and André Nunes de Sousa (Instituto Federal da Bahia, Brazil)4. Marguerita Oughton (1920–2008) - Elizabeth Baigent (University of Oxford, UK) and Andre Reyes Novaes (Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil)2 - Geography outside geographical institutions5. Philips Christiaan Visser (1882–1955) - Eduard A. Koster (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)6. Francisco Jaguaribe Gomes de Mattos (1881-1974) - Maria Gabriela Bernardino and Moema de Rezende Vergara (both Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins, Brazil)3 - Relationships between academic institutions and social movements7. Manuel Correia de Oliveira Andrade (1922-2007) – Federico Ferretti (University of Bologna, Italy)8. Carlos Walter Porto-Gonçalves (1949-2024) - Rogério Haesbaert and Valter do Carmo Cruz (both Federal Fluminense University, Brazil)

Geographers Biobibliographical Studies provides international, interdisciplinary and indispensable research into geographers’ lives and works. This latest volume has essays on four Brazilians, two Germans, a British woman and a Dutch diplomat-glaciologist and illustrates how each helped shape – as they were shaped by – the different institutions in which they worked. As institutions of all kinds – universities, schools, scientific societies – are today under threat, these essays, and GBS’s insistent intellectual enquiries, could hardly be more topical.