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Torsten Hagerstrand
| Swedish geographer Date of Birth: 11.10.1916 Country: Sweden |
Content:
- Biography of Torsten Hägerstrand
- Early Career
- Diffusion of Hägerstrand's Ideas
- Later Career
- Contributions and Awards
Biography of Torsten Hägerstrand
Torsten Hägerstrand was a Swedish geographer and author of the theory of spatial diffusion of innovations.
He was born in Moheda, Småland, in a family of a school teacher. Hägerstrand studied at Lund University, majoring in geography, while also attending lectures on art history. During his studies, he was called to serve in the army twice.
Early Career
Hägerstrand initially focused on studying rural migration in Sweden, with his first work on this topic being published in 1942.
He continued his research in this field and in 1950, he published a paper that viewed socio-economic phenomena in rural Sweden as a diffusion process, which could be modeled using the Monte Carlo method. In 1953, he defended his dissertation at