Hugó Böckh

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Hugó Böckh (von Nagysur) (born June 15, 1874 in Budapest , † December 6, 1931 ) was a Hungarian geologist.

Hugo Böckh, who comes from a family that was shaped by geology (his father was Johann Böckh ), studied mineralogy and petrography . In Munich he deepened his knowledge in these areas. A short time later he was appointed professor at the kuk Bergakademie Schemnitz in these subjects .

When the first abundant natural gas source was found in Transylvania in 1910 , Böckh was entrusted with the further geological survey of the Transylvanian Basin. He performed this function as an official of the Austro-Hungarian Ministry of Finance. At that time, the most frequent drilling for natural gas and oil was carried out in the Marchfeld and in the Záhorie , in Transylvania and Croatia .

With the outcome of the First World War , Hungary lost access to these mineral resources, especially gas and oil. Thus Böckh also lost his practical area of ​​activity. As a result, Böckh worked increasingly abroad. In Austria, too, Böckh was active in oil exploration in Upper Austria and Lower Austria .

Between 1923 and 1929 he made study trips to Albania , Persia , Iraq , Guatemala , Colombia and Trinidad on behalf of numerous oil companies .

Only an appointment to the royal geological institute in Budapest moved him to return to Hungary. He had extensive experience in the field of geotectonics . Böckh succeeded in recognizing the connection between folding zones and seismic effects when exploring rock salt and crude oil deposits. Earlier measurements by Baron Loránd Eötvös had already shown this. As a result, the rotary balance was increasingly used as a practical aid in geophysical research.

His most important work is the stratigraphic and tectonic work on the "Iranian Massif", which he carried out with GM Lees and FDS Richardson and which he carried out under the title Contrubition to the stratigraphy and tectonic of the Iranian ranges in the 1929 work by John Walter Gregory "The structure of Asia" published.

Works

  • The geological conditions around Nagy-Maros , inaugural dissertation

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eötvös the Scientist, accessed on February 19
  2. ↑ Otto Thiele: On the age of metamorphosis in central Iran . In: Mitteilungen der Geologische Gesellschaft in Wien, Volume 58, 1965, pp. 87-101 (PDF; 1.4 MB)

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personal data
SURNAME Böckh, Hugó
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian geologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1931