Karl Butzer

Karl Butzer
Born	August 19, 1934 Mülheim, Germany
Died	May 4, 2016 (2016-05-05) (aged 81) Austin, Texas, U.S.
Alma mater	McGill University (B.Sc., M.Sc.) University of Bonn (Ph.D.)
Occupation(s)	Geographer, Cultural Ecologist and Environmental Archaeologist
Scientific career
Fields	Geography, cultural ecology, environmental archaeology
Institutions	University of Wisconsin–Madison ETH Zurich University of Chicago University of Texas at Austin

Karl W. Butzer (August 19, 1934 – May 4, 2016) was a German-born American geographer, ecologist, and archaeologist. He received two degrees at McGill University, Montreal: the B.Sc. (hons) in Mathematics in 1954 and later his master's degree in Meteorology and Geography. Afterwards in the 1950s he returned to Germany to the University of Bonn to obtain a doctorate in physical geography. He obtained a master's degree in Meteorology and Geography from McGill University and a doctorate in physical geography from the University of Bonn in Germany.^[1]

From 1959 through 1966 he taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. This was followed by a stint at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland. Next, he taught at the University of Chicago until 1984. After that, he went to the Department of Geography and the Environment at University of Texas at Austin.