Wilhelm Tomaschek
Wilhelm Tomaschek (Czech. Vilém Tomášek ) (born May 26, 1841 in Olomouc ; † September 9, 1901 in Vienna ) was a Czech-Austrian geographer and orientalist .
Life
From 1877 he taught as an associate professor for geography at the University of Graz . In 1881 he was appointed full professor. In the academic year 1884/1885 he served as dean of the philosophical faculty. In 1885 he moved to the University of Vienna .
Tomaschek had been a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna since 1882, and a full member since 1899. In 1883 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .
Tomaschekstraße in Vienna's 21st district of Floridsdorf was named in his honor in 1933 .
Fonts (selection)
- Central Asian Studies , 1877
- On the historical topography of Persia , 1883–1885
- On the historical topography of Asia Minor in the Middle Ages , 1891
- The ancient Thracians. An ethnological study . Tempsky, Vienna 1893–1894
literature
- Albrecht Penck : Wilhelm Tomaschek . In: Almanac of the Imperial Academy of Sciences . Vol. 52 (1902), pp. 291-295
- Albrecht Penck: In memory of Wilhelm Tomaschek. Commemorative speech, spoken on the occasion of the memorial service organized by the Geographers' Association on December 17, 1901 . In: Report on the 27th and 28th year 1900/01 and 1901/02, submitted by the Geographers Association at the University of Vienna . Vienna 1903, pp. 1–19 (with picture and a list of publications by Adolf E. Forster)
- Wilhelm Wolkenhauer: Wilhelm Tomaschek . In: Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog . 6th volume (1901), Berlin 1904, pp. 327-328
Individual evidence
- ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Vilém or Wilhelm Tomaschek. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 26, 2015 (Russian).
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Tomaschek in the catalog of the German National Library
- Portrait of Wilhelm Tomaschek, designed by August Steininger
1. Chair of Physical Geography I: Robert Rösler (1871–1874) | Wilhelm Tomaschek (1881–1885) | Eduard Richter (1886–1905) | Robert Sieger (1905–1926) | Otto Maull (1929–1945) | Hans Spreitzer (1947–1952) | Herbert Schlenger (1954–1957) | Herbert Paschinger (1958–1981) | Herwig Wakonigg (1982-2008) | Ulrich Strasser (2008–2012) | Wolfgang Schöner (since 2014)
2. Chair of Human Geography: Sieghard Morawetz (1963–1974) | Wilhelm Leitner (1976–1996) | Friedrich Zimmermann (1997–2008) | Anke Strüver (since 2018)
3. Chair of Physical Geography II: Walter Zsilincsar (1983–2007) | Oliver Sass (2009–2019) | Martin Mergili (since 2020)
4. Chair of Geography Didactics and Socio-Economic Education: Ulrich Ermann (since 2012)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tomaschek, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tomášek, Vilém |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian geographer and orientalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1841 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Olomouc |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 9, 1901 |
| Place of death | Vienna |