Prof. Isaac Schattner

(1900-1981)

Abstract

Isaac Schattner was born in Peczenizyn, in the then Austro-Hungarian Empire. He completed his secondary school education in Vienna in 1920, and immediately thereafter enrolled at the University, where he studied geography and history. Parallel to his university exploits Schattner became interested in Zionist activities, which gradually became a dominant factor in his career. In order to prepare himself for immigration to Palestine, Schattner undertook theoretical and practical agricultural and building training. Schattner to emigrate in 1936 to Palestine and soon transferred the main thrust of his activities to geographic education in teachers' colleges and secondary schools in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem During those years Schattner also contributed much of his time to defense needs. In 1947 he was in charge of the division of maps and aerial photographs of the Haganah in Jerusalem, and later became chief of the department of air photo interpretation of the young Israel Defence Forces. Schattner's appointment to join David Amiran in the young Department of Geography at the Hebrew University, that was a turning point in the development of geography as an academic discipline in Israel, and it heralded a period of rapid diversification in teaching and research. Schattner continued his three-fold interest in geomorphology, historical cartography and regional geography, but more and more his ever active imagination was sparked by the impact of current major advances in the study of geomorphic processes on well-established classical concepts. Schattner's most important works had their seeds in the mid-fifties; this period was the most productive in his scientific career.

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• Schattner, I. 1933. Lettland. Versuch einer Landeskunde. Mimeographed.
• Schattner, I. 1935. Die Entwick1ung del' sibirischenKulturlandschaft. Mimeographed.
• Schattner, I. 1937 & 1938/39. Haifa: the port city. Ha-Teva Weha-Aretz 5: 190-194, 239-243, 366-372, 474-476; 6: 79-85, 147-152, 219266 (in Hebrew).
• Schattner, I. 1942. The Hieronymus maps. Bull. Jew. Palest. Explor. Soc. 9: 61-69 (in Hebrew).
• Schattner, I. 1935. Die Entwick1ung del' sibirischenKulturlandschaft. Mimeographed.
• Schattner, I. 1942. The Tabula Peutingeriana. Bull. Jew. Palest. Explor. Soc. 9: 98-104 (in Hebrew).
• Schattner, I. 1943. The literature on maps of the Holy Land. Bull. Jew. Palest. Explor. Soc. 10: 90-97 (in Hebrew).
• Schattner, I. 1944. Physical geography. Jerusalem. Mimeographed. 102 p.
• Schattner, I. 1945. The cartography of Palestine. Weizmann Memorial Volume, Jew. Palest. Explor. Soc. 33-39 (in Hebrew).
• Schattner, I., ed. 1948. General Atlas. London & Tel Aviv. 16 + 40 P (in Hebrew).
• Schattner, I. 1950. Eretz-Israel, a geographical survey. In: Biblical Encyclopedia. Vol. I. p. 638-663.
• Schattner, I. 1951. The Maps of Palestine and their History. Jerusalem. 204 p.
• Schattner, I. 1952. Views on the physical geography of Palestine during the first half of the 19th century. Eretz-Israel Vol. 2. (Liff Memorial Volume.) p.41-49.
• Schattner, I. 1953. The influence of the Holy Land upon the physiographic theory in the middle ages and premodern time. Actes du VIle Congres International d'Histoire des Sciences. Paris.
• Schattner, I. 1954. Haifa: a study in the relation of city and coast. Isr. Explor. J. 4: 26-46.
• Schattner, I. 1956. The meanders of the Jordan. Bull. Isr. Explor. Soc. 2: 145-151 (in Hebrew).
• Schattner, I. 1956. The surroundings of Jerusalem. Jerusalem I: 25-34 (in Hebrew).
• Schattner, I. 1956. The meanders of the J ardan River and their relation to climatic conditions in the rift valley. 18th Int. Geogr. Congr. Brasil. Abstracts of Papers. p. 52-53.
• Schattner, I. 1957. The morphology of the Jerusalem mountains. Yehuda WiYerushalayim. p. 137-143 (in Hebrew).
• Schattner, I. 1959. The sediment load of the Jordan between Lake Kinneret and the Dead Sea. Bull. Palest. Explor. Soc. 23: 157-174.
• Schattner, I. 1960. The badlands zone of the Jordan as a source area of its riverload and a conditioning factor of the meandering habit of rivers. Int. Geogr. Congr., Norden. Abstracts of Papers. p.255-256.
• Schattner, I. 1960. Interrelationships between geography and history. Shiloh Volume, Tel Aviv. p. 47-56 (in Hebrew).
• Schattner, I. 1960. The meanders of the river Jordan and their relation to the climatic conditions of the rift valley. CR XVIIIe Congr. Int. Geogr. Rio de Janeiro, 1956. p. 378-385.
• Schattner, I. 1961. Weathering phenomena in the crystalline of the Sinai in the light of current notions. Bull. Res. Counc. Isr. lOG: 247-266.
• Schattner, I. 1962. The Lower Jordan Valley. Scripta Hierosolymitana II. Jerusalem. 123 p.
• Schattner, I. 1963. The morphology of the Elat mountains. Elat Volume, Jerusalem, p. 227-230 (in Hebrew).
• Schattner, I. 1964. Sediments along the coast of Israel. 20th Int. Geogr. Congo London. Abstracts of Papers. p. 115.
• Schattner, I. 1964. Coastal bibliography: Israel. Int. Geogr. Union, Comm. Coastal Geomorphology,' Bibliography 1959-64. Folia Geogr. Dan. 10: 29-30.
• Schattner, I. 1964. The delta of the Jordan. Bull. Palest. Explor. Soc. 28: 3-24 (in Hebrew).
• Schattner, I. and M. Karmon. 1964. Die Karte des Zentral-Negev (Israel) und der angrenzenden Gebiete. Erdkunde 18: 328-336.
• Schattner, I. 1964. Land utilization in the early thirties. Map and text. Atlas of Israel, sheet VIII/2, map A. Survey of Israel, Jerusalem (in Hebrew); English edition: 1970. Sheet VIII/! , map A. Survey of Israel, Jerusalem & Elsevier, Amsterdam.
• Schattner, I. 1964. Land utilization in the early sixties. Map and text. Atlas of Israel, sheet VIII/2, map B. Survey of Israel, Jerusalem (in Hebrew); English edition: 1970. Sheet VIII/2, map B. Survey of Israel, Jerusalem & Elsevier, Amsterdam.
• Schattner, I. 1967. Geomorphology of the northern coast of Israel. Geogr. Annaler. 49A: 310-320.
• Schattner, I. 1970. Geomorphology - The Exogene Evolution of the Relief. Jerusalem. 372 p (in Hebrew)

Source: DHK Amiran and AP Schick ISRAEL JOURNAL OF EARTH-SCIENCES Vol. 31 1982 pp 49-52