Karl Ludolf Griesbach

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Karl Ludolf Griesbach , also Carl Ludolph Griesbach, (born December 11, 1847 in Vienna , † April 13, 1907 in Graz ) was a British paleontologist and geologist .

Life

Despite his name and place of birth, he was British. His father was the Englishman Karl Griesbach and his mother Sarah Wigge. Griesbach worked for the Austrian geological survey in 1867/68 and led a German expedition of scientists in Portuguese East Africa ( Mozambique ) and in neighboring Natal in 1869/70 . From 1871 he worked in London and from 1878 on the Geological Survey of India .

In addition, Griesbach had joined the 6th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers in England , where he made it to lieutenant colonel (Lt. Colonel). In 1880 he was on a special assignment in the 2nd Anglo-Afghan War (Battle of Girishk, Battle of Maiwand and the siege of Kandahar ). In 1882/83 Griesbach stayed in Hundes, Spiti and in the Garhwal Himalaya.

From 1884 to 1886 he was a geologist in the Afghan Border Commission and in 1888/89 he worked as a geologist for the Emir of Afghanistan Abdur Rahman Khan . Between 1894 and 1903 Griesbach was director of the Geological Survey of India.

In 1869 he married Emma Griesbach, an Englishwoman, daughter of pastor WR Griesbach in Millington, Yorkshire.

Edward Timothy Tozer named the Griesbachium after him.

Griesbach was temporarily a correspondent for the Imperial Geological Institute .

Web links

Fonts

  • The Jura of Veit near Vienna . Year of the k. k. geological Reichsanstalt, 18, 1868, pp. 122–130 online (PDF; 1.0 MB)
  • The Jura of St. Veit near Vienna . Negotiations of the k. k. Geological Reichsanstalt 1868, pp. 54–55 online (PDF; 343 kB)
  • Kössen and Jurassic layers in the k. k. Thiergarten near Vienna . Negotiations of the k. k. Geological Reichsanstalt 1868, pp. 198–199 online (PDF; 339 kB)
  • The cliffs in the Viennese sandstone . Jahrb., 19, 1869, pp. 217–224 online (PDF; 793 kB)
  • Comments on the age of the Viennese sandstone . Negotiations of the k. k. Geological Reichsanstalt 1869, pp. 292–295 online (PDF; 477 kB)
  • About the geological conditions in the area of ​​the k. k. Thiergarten . Negotiations of the k. k. Geological Reichsanstalt 1869, pp. 33–34 online (PDF; 332 kB)
  • Geological average through South Africa . Year of the k. k. geological Reichsanstalt, 20, 1870, issue 4, pp. 501–504
  • Correspondence with letters about South and East Africa . Negotiations of the k. k. Geological Reichsanstalt 1870, pp. 269–270 online (PDF; 326 kB)
  • Petrefacts found in South Africa . Negotiations of the k. k. Geological Reichsanstalt 1870, pp. 75–76 online (PDF; 326 kB)
  • Geological sketches from India . Negotiations of the k. k. Geological Reichsanstalt 1882, pp. 116–122 online (PDF; 618 kB)
  • Geological notes from Afghanistan . Negotiations of the k. k. geological Reichsanstalt 1885, pp. 314–315 online (PDF; 309 kB)
  • Communication from Afghanistan: From a letter to Dr. E. Tietze from the camp of the Afghan Boundary Commission dd Jan. 17, 1886 . Negotiations of the k. k. Geological Reichsanstalt 1886, pp. 122–123 online (PDF; 322 kB)

literature

supporting documents

  1. ^ Helmuth Zapfe: Index Palaeontologicorum Austriae (= Catalogus fossilium Austriae issue 15). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1971, p. 39 online (PDF; 346 kB).
personal data
SURNAME Griesbach, Karl Ludolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Griesbach, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British geologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1907
Place of death Graz