Josef Emanuel Hibsch

Josef Emanuel Hibsch (born March 26, 1852 in Hummel (Homole u Panny), Bohemia ; † November 4, 1940 in Vienna ) was a geologist .

Life

Josef Emanuel Hibsch studied from 1871 at the kk Polytechnic Institute (from 1872 Vienna University of Technology ), where he passed the teaching examination for natural history and chemistry. From 1874 to 1878 he was assistant to Andreas Kornhuber . From 1878 to 1880 he worked in Pilsen and from 1880 to 1914 professor at the Royal Bohemian Agricultural Academy in Tetschen-Liebwerd . He devoted himself in particular to the geological exploration of the Bohemian Central Uplands . He created the first detailed geological maps of the region. In 1930 he received from the Technical University of Dresden , the honorary doctorate .

Hibsch was a corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences .

Mineralogical Museum in Homole u Panny, Northern Bohemia

In the former school of his birthplace Homole ( Hummel ) a small museum was set up in his honor.

Walther Fischer: Hibsch, Josef Emanuel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 104 f. ( Digitized version ).
Hibsch Josef Emanuel. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1959, p. 311 f. (Direct links on p. 311 , p. 312 ).
Felix Czeike (Ed.): Hibsch (Hiebsch), Josef Emanuel. In: Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 3, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00545-0 , p. 180 ( digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Hibsch, Josef Emanuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hiebsch, Josef Emanuel; Hibsch, Joseph Emanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian geologist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 26, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hummel , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH	November 4th 1940
Place of death	Vienna