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Emrys George Bowen FRGS, FSA, also known as E. G. Bowen (28 December 1900 – 8 November 1983), was an internationally renowned geographer with a particular interest in the physical geography and social geography of his native Wales. A diminutive figure, Bowen was on the academic staff of the Department of Geography and Anthropology at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, from the 1920s and was still writing and lecturing there until his death in 1983. ==Biography== E. G. Bowen was born in Carmarthen, Wales, the elder child of Thomas Bowen, an insurance agent, and Elizabeth Ann Lynch. He was educated at the council school, Pentre-poeth, and from 1912 to 1919 at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen, before proceeding in 1919 to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he obtained a first-class honours degree in Geography in 1923. Bowen became the first Cecil Prosser research fellow at the Welsh National School of Medicine at Cardiff, where he investigated the relationship between 'racial type' and chest disease. From 1928 to 1929 he was an assistant editor with the Encyclopædia Britannica before being appointed in 1929 as assistant lecturer in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Aberystwyth. He remained there for the rest of his academic career, including during World War II, when he continued to lecture and also taught meteorology to the Royal Air Force initial training wing which was located there. He was Gregynog Professor of Geography and Anthropology from 1946 to his retirement in 1968.〔Harold Carter, 'Bowen, Emrys George (1900–1983)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004〕 Bowen was President of the Institute of British Geographers in 1958 and President of Section E of the British Association in 1962. He was awarded the Murchison Grant by the Royal Geographical Society in 1958. In 1949 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and in 1967 he was President of the Cambrian Archaeological Society. He was awarded an honorary LLD by the University of Wales and in June 1979 was awarded an honorary DUniv by the Open University. He was an honorary member of the Gorsedd of Bards.〔 Bowen continued with his academic work and writing after his retirement, continuing to lecture at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, the United Theological College Aberystwyth, and at various other universities and colleges on Geography and Church history.〔(National Library of Wales Papers of Bowen, E. G., (Geographer) )〕 Bowen's work on the ''Settlements of the Celtic Saints in Wales'' (1954) revolutionised studies in this field. He lived for many years with his sister. After his retirement in 1968 Bowen continued to live at Aberystwyth where he died unmarried after a heart attack on 8 November 1983 at Bronglais General Hospital, Aberystwyth. He was buried at Carmarthen. The 'E G Bowen Map Room' at Aberystwyth University is named in his memory.〔(University of Wales, Aberystwyth. E.G. Bowen Map Library )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「E. G. Bowen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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