Luis García Sainz
Luis García Sáinz (Saragossa, 1894-Saragossa, March 11, 1965) was a pioneer of physical geography in Spain. It was the first Professor in Geography en la University of Valencia and secretary on restart the Instituto Juan Sebastián Elcano. He belongs to the German School of Spanish Geographers. His last position was professor at the University of Barcelona.
Teacher of geography
He began his academic career studying and practicing as a teacher in Teruel.
In 1917 was appointed Teacher of Geography at the Ecole Normale of Palma de Mallorca, who later would direct.
In 1924 receives a grant to study Geography in Switzerland, both comparative and didactic.
In 1925, he stayed at the University of Belgrade to study with Serbian geographer Jovan Cvijić areas of evolution in surface and subsurface ice of the Alps and the regions of the Rhine and central Germany.
He was secretary of Instituto Juan Sebastián Elcano of Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas after its restart after the Spanish Civil War. This Institute had an important role in the development of the Spanish geography.
Professor of geography
In 1941he was appointed the first Professor of Physical Geography of the University of Valencia, and secretary on restart the [Instituto Juan Sebastián Elcano]. He belongs to the German School of Spanish Geographers. His last position was as a professor at the University of Barcelona.
In memoria there is a State School in Fuentes de Ebro, CEIP Luis García Sáinz.
Died of a car accident.
Physical geographer
He is part of German School geographers group, influenced by German geographers work in Spain and for their educational training in Germany. As geographers attest Horacio Capel in «Geography after the Spanish Civil War., and «Vicenç Maria Rosselló i Verger in «Spanish precursors of Physical Geography.
He was a pioneer in geomorphological research. Their research are notable on the Ebro basin (1927, 1928, 1936 and 1939), areas of erosion, glaciers, storms from the east, the massif of Idubeda, and red soils of Mallorca.
Bibliography
| Title | Year | Gender |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrographic-ground developments and phenomena in materials during Neogene in half Ebro river | 1928 | Article |
| An expedition to the sources of Esera | 1931 | Article |
| Glacial and preglacial morphology of the Noguera region | 1935 | Article |
| Major morphological features of the Aragonese Pyrenees during the Tertiary and Quaternary | 1936 | Article |
| Study-report of groundwater in Almonacid de la Sierra | 1937 | Article |
| Main morphological features of the middle Ebro river | 1939 | Article |
| Epiglaciares stages in Spanish Pyrenees | 1940 | Article |
External links
- «Professor of Philosophy at the Spanish University, 1950.
- «Spanish precursors of Physical Geography.
- «Approach to Valencia Geography School.
- «College of Education elementary and primary Luis García Sáinz.
- «Geography after the Spanish Civil War.