Johann Soelch

Bronze relief for Johann Soelch at the University of Vienna

Johann Soelch (also: Johann Sölch ; born October 16, 1883 in Penzing ; † September 10, 1951 in Kitzbühel , Tyrol) was an Austrian geographer , rector of the University of Vienna and president of the Austrian Geographical Society .

Life

Johann Sölch was a son of the couple Johann Georg Sölch (1852-1934), director of the Austrian school book publisher, who came from Gehaag in Bohemia, and Anna Franke (1861-1924), daughter of the higher regional judge Ignaz Franke in Brno .

Sölch was a student at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in philosophy under Albrecht Penck in 1906; it followed in 1917 the habilitation in Graz. From 1920 to 1928 Johann Sölch was professor for physical geography at the University of Innsbruck - where Hans Kinzl did his doctorate with him - and set up a seminar for geography of the Alps . As the successor to Alfred Hettner , he was full professor at the University of Heidelberg from 1932 to 1935 , at the University of Vienna from 1935 and secretary of the mathematical and natural science class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences ; in 1947 and 1948 he was rector of the University of Vienna and in 1951 president of the Austrian Geographical Society. From 1932 he was a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . His grave is in the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Sölch had a daughter Ilse Sölch (* 1909 in Vienna), scientific publications in geographical areas, a. a. "The geography of the Issel region in East Tyrol".

Honors

In Vienna- Floridsdorf , Sölchgasse was named after him in 1954 and his bust was erected on the campus of the University of Vienna. The Sölch Glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula also bears his name.

Works

Numerous publications, especially on the geomorphology of the Alps caused by the Ice Age , in: Gesamtverzeichnis des Deutschensprachigen Schrifttums (GV) 1700 to 1910, No. 136; 1911 to 1965, No. 123 and 1985 page 37, Verlag KGSaur Munich.

literature

• German Gender Book - Genealogical Handbook of Bourgeois Families, Volume 214 (58th General Volume) 2002, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg an der Lahn , Sölch family from Zettendorf , Eger district in Bohemia , pages 1003 to 1041, Generation XVII a Johann Sölch, page 1015 ; in the introduction, pp. 1003–1005, an overview of the origin of the Sölch family in the former Egerland .
• Entry on Sölch, Johann in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Helene Bruscha, Annelies Sölch: Typewritten manuscript of the "Sölch family of Zettendorf, Eger district in Böhmen" with 42 pages, February 1993, copy in the Vienna City and State Archives , Vienna City Hall (Magistrate Department 8 - sine / Dr.Psarakis / De), there p. 7

Web links

• Literature by and about Johann Soelch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Overview of Johann Soelch's courses at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1907)