author
Stephen Sargent Visher
1887–1967
A prolific American geographer, he spent much of his career at Indiana University and wrote widely on the landscapes and regions of the United States. His work also touched ecology and the history of science, reflecting an unusually broad range of interests.
1 Audiobook
Climatic Changes: Their Nature and Causes
by Ellsworth Huntington, Stephen Sargent Visher
About the author
Born in Chicago on December 15, 1887, he later spent part of his youth in South Dakota, an experience that helped shape his lifelong interest in land, climate, and regional geography. Archival and reference sources describe an early period of schoolteaching before he went on to a long academic career.
He became best known as a geographer and spent most of his professional life as a professor at Indiana University, working in its Department of Geology. Alongside studies of regional and physical geography, he published extensively and was active in several scientific and professional organizations.
Visher died in Bloomington, Indiana, on October 25, 1967, at the age of 79. Modern reference sources also note that parts of his legacy are controversial, since some of his writing engaged with eugenics; that context is important in understanding his place in the history of geography.