Wilhelm Reiss

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Wilhelm Reiss
Wilhelm and Carl Reiss' grave in the main cemetery in Mannheim

Johann Wilhelm Reiss (born June 13, 1838 in Mannheim , † September 29, 1908 in Koenitz near Saalfeld ) was a German explorer and volcanologist .

Life

Reiss was born the son of the industrialist and mayor of Mannheim, Friedrich Reiss . He traveled to the Azores , Madeira and the Canary Islands between 1858 and 1860 . In 1861 he visited Java, he married the young Emilia Francina Wiederhold in Surabaja.

In 1866 he traveled to Greece with Karl von Fritsch and Moritz Alphons Stübel . With this, Reiss undertook a very fruitful expedition to South America from 1868 to 1876 , where they explored the Andes . They went from the coast to Bogotá , then through the Cauca Valley to Popayán , Pasto and Quito . During their five-year stay in this area, they first climbed the Cotopaxi and the Tungurahua , then turned to Peru , drove down the Amazon and toured the coast of Brazil .

After his return, Reiss lived in Berlin , where he evaluated and published the results of the trip. His wife divorced him in 1880. From 1892 he lived at Castle Koenitz ( Koenitz , Thuringia ). He died there on September 29, 1908.

Honors

In 1878 he became a member of the Leopoldina . Reiss was chairman of the Society for Geography in Berlin between 1885 and 1887 and chairman of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory in 1888 . He was a corresponding member of the Thuringian-Saxon Association for Geography.

Works

  • The dead field of Ancon in Peru. Berlin 1880–1886.
  • Culture and Industry of South American Peoples. Berlin 1889–1890.
  • Travel in South America. Berlin 1890.
  • Geological Studies in the Republic of Columbia . 3 volumes, Berlin 1892–1899.
  • The high mountains of the Republic of Ecuador . 2 volumes, Berlin 1892–1902.
  • Ecuador 1870-74. Petrographic studies. Berlin 1901.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roel de Neve: Genealogy Wiederhold / Hedrich von Wiederhold. In: De Indische Navorscher. Volume 18, 2005, pp. 148-154.
  2. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Wilhelm Reiss
  3. ^ Directory of the members of the Thuringian-Saxon Geography Association on March 31, 1885 ( Memento from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Tear, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reiss, Johann Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German explorer and volcanologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1908
Place of death Koenitz near Saalfeld