August Böhm from Böhmersheim

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August Böhm von Böhmersheim (also August von Böhm-Böhmersheim , born April 27, 1858 in Vienna , † October 19, 1930 in Graz ) was an Austrian geographer and alpinist .

Life

August Böhm von Böhmersheim, son of the physician Karl Böhm von Böhmersheim , studied from 1877 to 1878 at the Technical University of Vienna and from 1878 to 1882 at the University of Vienna geography a. a. with Eduard Sueß and Friedrich Simony . It was in 1882 at the University of Erlangen Dr. phil. PhD. From 1882 to 1885 he worked as a volunteer at the Geological Reichsanstalt , in 1883 he studied with Karl Alfred von Zittel in Munich, 1886–87 with Ferdinand von Richthofen in Berlin. In 1887 he qualified as a professor at the Technical University in Vienna for the subject of physical geography. From 1893 to 1906, Böhm worked in the geological and paleontological department of the Natural History Court Museum in Vienna, where he was particularly involved in reorganizing the library. In 1889 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1902 Böhm was appointed associate professor at the Vienna University of Technology. From 1906 he headed the Austrian office for the international scientific bibliography at the court library in Vienna. From 1908 to 1920 he was a full professor of geography at the University of Chernivtsi , Bukowina , where he mainly dealt with mathematical geography. From 1920 he taught at the University of Graz , where he retired in 1922, but held lectures until 1926.

Böhm was mainly a geographer, but also did research in the field of geology and occasionally paleontology . His research area was the geomorphology of the Alps . The division of the Eastern Alps , which is still common today, comes from him .

Böhm was also a well-known mountaineer and was responsible for some first ascents with Emil and Otto Zsigmondy , Ludwig Purtscheller and Karl Diener .

Publications (selection)

  • Guide through the Hochschwab group . Lechner, Vienna 1881; 2nd increased edition 1886
  • About some tertiary fossils from the island of Madura, north of Java . In: Memoranda of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 45, 1882, pp. 359–372 online (PDF; 1.9 MB)
  • The Höttinger breccia and its relationship to glacial deposits . In: Yearbook of the Imperial Geological Institute 34, 1884, pp. 147–162 online (PDF; 1.3 MB)
  • The old glaciers of the Enns and Steyr . In: Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute 35, 1885, pp. 429–612 online (PDF; 17.2 MB)
  • Classification of the Eastern Alps (= Geographical Treatises . Vol. 1). Hölzel, Vienna 1887
  • Effects of the Ice Age on the soil . In: Writings of the Association for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge Vienna 31, 1891, pp. 477–511 online (PDF; 1.5 MB)
  • Magazine catalog of the Imperial and Royal Natural History Court Museum. I-VIII . In: Annalen des Naturhistorisches Museum in Wien 12, 1897, pp. 1–184 online (PDF; 15.5 MB)
  • History of Moraine Studies . Lechner, Vienna 1901
  • The Karlseisfeld . In: Writings of the Association for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge Vienna 43, 1903, pp. 347–366 online (PDF; 1.4 MB)
  • History of the Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna . Holzhausen, Vienna 1908
  • Flattening and mountain formation . Deuticke, Leipzig 1910

literature

personal data
SURNAME Böhm von Böhmersheim, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Böhm von Böhmersheim, August Edler; Böhm-Böhmersheim August Edler von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geographer and alpinist
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1930
Place of death Graz