Emil Tietze
Emil Ernst August Tietze (born June 15, 1845 in Breslau , † March 4, 1931 in Vienna ) was an Austrian geologist.
Live and act
Emil Tietze, the son of a factory owner, attended secondary school and Magdalenengymnasium , where he graduated from high school in 1864 . He first studied natural sciences at the University of Breslau and Tübingen and then only geology again in Breslau, where he obtained his doctorate from Ferdinand von Roemer . During his studies in 1865 he became a member of the Germania Tübingen fraternity .
After completing his studies, he came to Vienna and, through the mediation of his compatriot Guido Stache under the director Franz von Hauer, was able to begin as an intern at the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute . He spent a total of 48 years at the Reichsanstalt.
At the beginning he worked as a recording geologist and sometimes mapped Galicia for the first time. He continued these recordings in Austrian Silesia and northern Moravia up to the Boskowitz furrow . But also in Bosnia he carried out the first general survey together with Alexander Bittner and Edmund von Mojsisovics . Research trips took him to distant countries, such as Persia or the southern coastal regions of Asia Minor . In the course of the international geology congresses he traveled to numerous countries in Europe and North America.
In 1877 he became chief geologist, after Mojsisovics' retirement in 1901, he was initially deputy director of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute . As early as 1902 he was able to take over the post of director after Guido Stache .
In 1903 he was elected President of the International Geological Congress in Vienna. His scientific interest was increasingly directed towards geographical geology. He refused an appointment to a chair in Bonn in the early 1880s. Increasingly, he also devoted himself to association tasks as a member of the Vienna Geographical Society . He was a member of the committee until 1880. After all, he headed the company for seven years. For his services he was made honorary president in 1910. In 1915 he was awarded the Franz von Hauer Medal .
Since 1912 Tietze also belonged to the Geological Society. In 1883 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .
Tietze was married to Hauer's daughter Rosa von Hauer, with whom he left a son, the mathematician Heinrich Tietze , and three daughters. Another daughter was married to the geologist Wilhelm Petrascheck from Leoben .
literature
- T. Cernajsek: Tietze Emil. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 14, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2012–, ISBN 978-3-7001-7312-0 , p. 341 f. (Direct links on p. 341 , p. 342 ).
Web links
- Wilhelm Hammer : Emil Tietze (PDF; 97 kB)
- Wilhelm Hammer : In memory of Emil Tietze (PDF; 2.0 MB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 527.
- ^ Member entry by Emil Tietze at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 18, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tietze, Emil |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tietze, Emil Ernst August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 4, 1931 |
| Place of death | Vienna |