Department of Geography

Prof EC Liebenberg

College of Agriculture & Environmental Sciences
School of Ecological and Human Sustainability
Department: Geography
Academic Associate
E-mail: elri@worldonline.co.za

Qualifications

  • DLitt et Phil (Unisa),
  • MA (Unisa),
  • BHons (UOVS),
  • BA,
  • Dipl.Cart.(Swansea,UK).

NRF Rating

B2

Fields of academic interests

  • Cartography
  • Historical Geography
  • History of Cartography

Field of Specialisation

  • History of Cartography

Books

  • LIEBENBERG, Elri. Historical Maps of Southern Africa, 1780-1920. Subtitle:  A Carto-Bibliography of Nineteenth-century printed maps of southern Africa south of the Zambesi.  Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. (In the press).
  • LIEBENBERG, Elri, Peter Collier and Zsolt Törok (eds). 2014. History of Cartography. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-33316-3.   
  • LIEBENBERG, Elri, Imre Josef Demhardt and Soetkin Vervust (eds). 2014. History of Cartography. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.  ISBN 978-3-319-25244-5.
  • LIEBENBERG, E.C. 1987. Techniques for Geographers: Answer Book.  Butterworths: Durban. ISBN 0 409 36482.





Journal articles

  • LIEBENBERG, Elri. 2021. ‘I Will Open a Path into the Interior (of Africa), or Perish’. David Livingstone and the Mapping of Africa. British Cartographic Journal 58(1), 29-49.
  • LIEBENBERG, Elri. 2021. Unveiling Southern Africa: John Barrow’s map of 1801. International Journal of Cartography, 7(2), 164-170.
  • LIEBENBERG, Elri. 2019. Thomas Baines’s contribution to 19th century South African Cartography. In: Terrae Incognitae: Journal of the International Society for the History of Discovery, 51(1), February, 36-59.