Auteur: Matthias Kuhle

Matthias Kuhle (*20 April 1948 in Berlin; † 25 April 2015 near Yaruphant, Nepal) was an internationally renowned German geographer at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, where he was a Professor of Geography and High Mountain Geomorphology from 1983 until his death in 2015. His main research area was the geomorphological reconstruction of a High Glacial inland ice sheet in High Asia, including Central Tibet. He studied geography, German philology, and philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin, and completed his Ph.D. on former glaciations in southern Iran. Subsequently, he extended his research focus to include the extreme high mountain regions of High Asia, most notably the Himalayas and Karakoram. Between 1973 and 2015, he conducted more than 44 scientific expeditions into these regions and other high-mountain areas around the world. Another of Dr. Kuhle’s research interests, shared with his wife Sabine Kuhle, was the philosophy of science and the cultural evolution of Western logic. On 25 April 2015, M. Kuhle unexpectedly died during an earthquake in Nepal.