Daniel W. Gade

{{Short description|American Academic}}

File:Urubamba - Valle Sagrado 3.JPG

Daniel Wynne Gade (September 28, 1936 – June 15, 2015) was a professor of Geography at the University of Vermont and a prominent member of the Berkeley School of Latin Americanist Geography. His main interests were in the fields of cultural geography and historical geography, as well as ethnobotany, cultural ecology, and mountain research. His regional focus was on the Central Andes of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia; moreover, Gade also investigated cultural landscapes of francophone Canada, Spain and Portugal, highland Madagascar, southern France and northern Italy. He was born in Niagara Falls, New York.

He received the bachelor's degree from Valparaiso University (Indiana) in 1959, a Master of Arts from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1960, and a Master of Science, followed by a Doctorate, from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1967. His dissertation on human plant use in the Vilcanota Valley of Peru was published in the series Biogeographica, then edited by German geographer Josef Schmithüsen. During his travels in South America, he also met the Nazi scientist Heinz Brücher and analyzed his work in a publication.{{Cite journal|last=Gade|first=Daniel W.|date=2006|title=Converging ethnobiology and ethnobiography: cultivated plants, Heinz Brucher and Nazi ideology|url=http://www.brockwell-bake.org.uk/docs/Brucher%20JEB%202005.pdf|journal=Journal of Ethnobiology|language=en-US|volume=26|issue=1|pages=82–106|doi=10.2993/0278-0771(2006)26[82:ceaecp]2.0.co;2|issn=0278-0771|access-date=2018-08-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812031641/http://www.brockwell-bake.org.uk/docs/Brucher%20JEB%202005.pdf|archive-date=2017-08-12|url-status=dead}} He died in Burlington, Vermont on June 15, 2015.Annals of the American Association of Geographers (2015): [http://news.aag.org/2015/06/in-memoriam-daniel-w-gade/ In Memoriam: Daniel W. Gade] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180811100441/http://news.aag.org/2015/06/in-memoriam-daniel-w-gade/ |date=2018-08-11 }}[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/burlingtonfreepress/obituary.aspx?pid=175104057 Daniel W. Gade-obituary]