Eduard Brückner

Eduard Brückner (born July 29, 1862 in Jena ; died May 20, 1927 in Vienna ) was a German geographer and climatologist .

Life

Eduard Brückner was born as the son of the historian Alexander Brückner and his wife Lucie, b. Schiele, born. He studied at the Universities of Dorpat , Dresden and Munich . In 1886 he received his doctorate from the University of Munich and two years later received a professorship at the University of Bern . From 1904 to 1906 he worked as a professor at the University of Halle before he went to the University of Vienna , where he worked as a geographer and climatologist until his death. In 1905 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy .

In 1956 the Eduard-Brückner-Gasse in Vienna- Brigittenau (20th district) was named after him. The Brückner Glacier in Antarctica also bears his name.

Since 2000, the Austrian Society for Meteorology has awarded the Eduard Brückner Prize for outstanding interdisciplinary achievements in climate research.

Works (selection)

• with Albrecht Penck : The Alps in the Ice Age . 3 volumes. Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1909

literature

• Eugen Oberhummer : Eduard Brückner. His life and work. Obituary. In: Mitteilungen der Österreichische Geographische Gesellschaft Vol. 71, 1928, pp. 5–19 - with catalog raisonné ( eReader , ANNO).
• Ernst Milkutat:  Brückner, Eduard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 656 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Brückner Eduard, geographer. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 120.
• Nico Stehr , Hans von Storch : Eduard Brückner, The history of our climate: climate fluctuations and climate impacts. ZAMG Publ. No. 421, Vienna 2008.

Web links

• Literature by and about Eduard Brückner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Eduard Brückner in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis