Alfons Gabriel

Alfons Gabriel ( born February 4, 1894 in Beroun, † May 28, 1976 [ or 1974 or 1975 ] in Vienna ) was an Austrian tropical medicine and explorer.

Life

Gabriel studied medicine at the universities of Groningen and Vienna and received his doctorate 1920. He attended the tropics school in Batavia on Java and worked (on Curacao and Bonaire ), on the Malay Archipelago and China from 1922 to 1932 as a physician in the West Indies.

In three expeditions in the years 1927 /28, 1933 and 1937, Gabriel explored with his wife Agnes, the deserts of Iran and Afghanistan ( Lut and Kavir ). The two were the first Europeans crossed the Lut desert. He has written acclaimed works about the best known, through deserts of Persia (1935 ) was even translated into Persian.

Starting in 1934, Gabriel worked as a country doctor in several communities in Austria. From 1945 to 1959 he was honorary lecturer and later Professor of Tropical Hygiene at the University of World Trade. In addition, he continued to work as a doctor in Leoben village and participated in development projects, especially on Bonaire, in part.

Writings

  • In far-away Orient. A travel report. R. Oldenbourg, Munich / Berlin, 1929.
  • Agnes Gabriel grief: Through Persia deserts. New walks in the drying rooms Inner Iran. Strecker & Schröder, Stuttgart 1935.
  • Tschogogo. From the life of flamingos. Strecker and Schröder, Stuttgart 1938.
  • Agnes Gabriel grief: From the solitudes of Iran. 3 research cruise through the Lut Desert and Persian Baločistan with a trip to south Afghanistan. Strecker & Schröder, Stuttgart 1939.
  • Wide, wild Iran. 3 years research cruises in deserts and steppes. Strecker & Schröder, Stuttgart 1940.
  • Stranger seas, jungles and deserts. From the diaries of a physician and explorer. Universe, Vienna 1948.
  • The exploration of Persia. The development of Western knowledge of the geography of Persia. Holzhausen, Vienna 1952.
  • The image of the desert. Holzhausen, Vienna 1958.
  • Deserts of the Earth and its exploration. Springer, Berlin / Gottingen / Heidelberg 1961; Reprints: Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1978, ISBN 3-540-02765-3.
  • Marco Polo in Persia. Typographic Institute, Vienna 1963.
  • Forgotten Persie travelers. Notring, Vienna 1969.
  • (Editor) Cruel Paradise. The great deserts. Photographs by Folco Quilici. Austrian Federal Verlag, Vienna / Schreiber, Esslingen / Union, Stuttgart 1969.
  • Religion geography of Persia. Hollinek, Vienna 1971.
  • The religious world of Iran. Origin and fate of beliefs on Persian soil. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Graz 1974, ISBN 3-205-07113-1.
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