{"id":1609,"date":"2018-08-07T12:07:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T19:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2018-08-07T12:07:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T19:07:53","slug":"koch-walter-ferdinand-1922","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1609","title":{"rendered":"KOCH, WALTER FERDINAND, 1922-1978"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Geographer,\u00a0university professor. \u00a0Born&#8211; Oct. 8, 1922, Hamburg, Germany. Parents&#8211;John and Senta Hammer Koch.\u00a0Came to the US with his family as a child. \u00a0Married&#8211; 1945. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.A., 1956, M.A., 1957, Ph.D. in International Studies, 1961. US military, WWII. Administrative Assistant, Bureau of Public Administration, University of Alabama, 1955-1957; taught geography, University of Alabama, 1957-78. Editor, Alabama Geographer; state coordinator, National Council of Geography Educators; member, Association of American Geographers. Died November 3, 1978.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American Men and Women of Science, 1976.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The City Government of Huntsville, Alabama; an Organizational Survey. University, Ala; Bureau of Public Administration, University of Alabama, 1958.<\/p>\n<p>Municipal Debt in Alabama. Montgomery, Ala; Alabama League of Municipalities, 1958.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Geographer,\u00a0university professor. \u00a0Born&#8211; Oct. 8, 1922, Hamburg, Germany. Parents&#8211;John and Senta Hammer Koch.\u00a0Came to the US with his family as a child. \u00a0Married&#8211; 1945. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.A., 1956, M.A., 1957, Ph.D. in International Studies, 1961. US military, WWII. Administrative Assistant, Bureau of Public Administration, University of Alabama, 1955-1957; taught geography, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8566,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions\/8566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}