Emil Riebeck

Black Riebeckite in Corsica

Emil Riebeck (born June 11, 1853 in Leau , † June 22, 1885 in Feldkirch ) was a German chemist , ethnologist , mineralogist , natural scientist and collector. The mineral riebeckite bears his name.

The son of the industrialist Carl Adolf Riebeck studied natural sciences, especially chemistry in Karlsruhe, Leipzig and Freiburg im Breisgau. In Karlsruhe he became a member of the Corps Franconia . In 1880 he was with the thesis contributions to the knowledge of Pyropissits Dr. phil. PhD . Riebeck traveled several times to North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. In 1881 he went on an expedition to Socotra with Georg Schweinfurth . On behalf of Adolf Bastian , he toured the Chittagong Hill Tracts in what is now Bangladesh in 1882 . In 1884 Emil Riebeck financed the Gottlob Krause expedition to the Niger , Binue and Chad .

Riebeck put on an extensive collection of arts and crafts from East Asia, India, Arabia and Africa, which is now in various museums in Berlin, Dresden, Vienna and Weimar.

literature

Otto Taschenberg : Contributions to the fauna of the island of Socotra, especially after that of Dr. Emil Riebeck from Halle aS compiled the collected materials. In: Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaften , 56, 2, 1883, ZDB -ID 555022-1 , pp. 157-185.
Emil Riebeck: The hill tribes of Chittagong. Results of a journey made in the year 1882. Asher, Berlin 1885. (in English translation: The Chittagong Hill-Tribes. Results of a journey made in the year 1882. Translated by AH Keane. Asher, London 1885).

Simone Trieder : Emil and Paul Riebeck. Sons of the industrialist Carl Adolph Riebeck. (= Mitteldeutsche Kulturhistorische Hefte , Issue 12.) Hasenverlag, Halle (Saale) 2008, ISBN 978-3-939468-14-1 .

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SURNAME	Riebeck, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chemist, ethnologist, mineralogist, natural scientist and collector
DATE OF BIRTH	June 11, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leau
DATE OF DEATH	June 22, 1885
Place of death	Feldkirch