Leopold Kober

Leopold Kober ( born September 21, 1883 in Pfaff Sites; † September 6, 1970 in Hallstatt ) was an Austrian geologist and 1923-1954 Professor at the University of Vienna.

Kober grew up in Baden (Lower Austria ), where he made his high school diploma. He received his doctorate in 1908 with Viktor Uhlig of the University of Vienna in Geology. In addition to field studies in the Alps, he was also in northern Arabia and the Taurus Mountains. In 1913 he habilitated with Eduard Suess. In World War I he was four years old. In Russian captivity in Kazan and Tashkent, which he used to geological studies In 1923 he became associate professor and in 1937 as a successor of Suess full professor at the University of Vienna. In the 1920s, he traveled to field studies with own car the Mediterranean cordillera. After the Second World War he built the Geological Institute on again and retired in 1954.

Kober was a noted researcher on the structure of the Alps and the ceiling teaching and led the formation of mountains - according to a then popular doctrine - the contraction of the earth back. He has written 15 textbooks with which he coined the geologists next generations, and over 100 geoscience journal articles.

He received the 1925 Grand Prix Cuvier of the French Academy of Sciences, 1953, the Medal of Honor of the City of Vienna, 1958 Eduard- Suess- Commemorative Medal for Science and the grains. In 1954 he became a member of the Geological Society of London.

Writings

  • Guide to the Geology of Mädchenlyceen, Vienna 1919
  • Construction of the earth. An Introduction to Geotektonik, brothers Borntraeger, Berlin, 1921, 2nd edition 1928
  • Textbook of geology, publishing Hölder - Pichler- Tempsky, Vienna 1923
  • Construction and formation of the Alps, brothers Borntraeger, Berlin 1923, 2nd edition, Vienna, 1955 Deuticke
  • Design history of the earth, brothers Borntraeger, Berlin 1925
  • Geology of the landscape of Vienna, Springer Verlag 1926
  • The Evolution of the Alps, Karlsruhe 1927
  • The Alpine Europe, brothers Borntraeger 1931
  • The geological structure of Austria, Springer Verlag 1938
  • Worldview of the Earth's history, Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena 1932
  • Mountain structure of the earth, Handbook of Natural Sciences, Volume 4, 2nd edition, Jena, 1933, pp. 730-778
  • The Orogentheorie. A geological formation image, Scientia, Milan, Volume 59, 1933
  • Tectonic Geology, brothers Borntraeger, Berlin 1942
  • Viennese landscape, tourism Verlag, Wien 1947
  • From the construction of the earth to the structure of atoms. Fundamentals and basic lines of modern cosmo- geological picture of the world, universe Verlag, Wien 1949
Integrated Authority File
507583
de