Emilio Frey
Emilio Frey (born February 2, 1872 in Baradero, Argentina ; † May 29, 1964 in Bariloche , Argentina) was a Swiss-Argentine topographer .
Life
Emilio Enrique Frey grew up in Baradero, Buenos Aires Province , as the oldest of nine children. His Swiss father had emigrated to Argentina in 1863 to join the Swiss colony in Baradero, which was the first in Argentina to farm . Father Frey married Bernabela Borda, a local, in 1870.
Son Frey received his education in Switzerland, where he initially lived from 1884 to 1892 with his grandfather Rudolf Frey in Zurich . Then he graduated from the Technikum in Winterthur , now part of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences . There he acquired the skills as a topographer.
From 1896 he was able to apply his knowledge acquired in Europe as a member of the Comisión de Limites Argentina- Chile under the direction of Francisco P. Moreno . This commission was commissioned by the Argentine government to clean up the borders in the Andean region . Topographical as well as geological knowledge was required because the watershed between outflows into the Atlantic or Pacific was not only to be assessed according to the status at that time, but also on the basis of previous geological changes. That is why Santiago Roth , who originally also belonged to the Swiss colony in Baradero and was known as a paleontologist , also participated in some of the corresponding expeditions .
On several expeditions Frey created topographical maps of the Andean region in the disputed border area with Chile. He discovered u. a. the lakes of Cholila, Rivadavia and Epuyen. Frey named Lago Las Ranas a new lake he discovered . After a later trip to the same lake together with the American geologist Bailey Willis in 1913, Bailey requested that this lake be named Lago Frey after its discoverer .
In 1910, the Argentine Minister of Agriculture, Ramos Mejia, appointed a commission to research hydrology in Northern Patagonia with Willis as head and Frey as Argentine deputy.
In 1912 Frey married Rosa Maria Schumacher from Switzerland.
After Moreno received land from the Argentine state as a thank you for the services rendered in the border conflict with Chile, in 1903 he transferred part of 7000 hours in the area of Lake Nahuel Huapi back to Argentina with the condition that a nature reserve be established there. This resulted in the Nahuel Huapi National Park in 1934 , and Frey was appointed its first director. In 1981 this national park was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
As a co-founder in 1931, Frey became the first president of Club Andino Bariloche , the first mountaineering club in Argentina based in San Carlos de Bariloche . He headed this association for 30 years and was one of the most important personalities in the up-and-coming new town of Bariloche. In his honor, a mountain refuge in the national park was later named after him ( Refugio Ing. Emilio Frey ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ingeniero Emilio Frey - Breve cronología (PDF; 131 kB) , short chronology (in Spanish) on the website of the Nahuel Huapi National Park
- ↑ Plebiscito de 1902: libro de investigación histórica , article on the website patagonia.com.ar (in Spanish)
- ↑ Lago Frey , map with the lake on geographic.org
- ↑ Ramos Mejía y los proyectos de Bailey Willis , article on the website rionegro.com.ar (in Spanish)
- ↑ INGENIERO EMILIO FREY (PDF; 87 kB) , article on bariloche.gov.ar (in Spanish)
- ↑ Article about the history of the mountain club Club Andino (in Spanish)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Frey, Emilio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Frey, Emilio Enrique |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss-Argentine topographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baradero, Argentina |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 29, 1964 |
| Place of death | Bariloche , Argentina |