Emil Tietze
Emil Ernst August Tietze ( born June 15, 1845 in Breslau, † March 4, 1931 in Vienna ) was an Austrian geologist.
Life and work
Emil Tietze, the son of a factory, attended secondary school and the Magdalene College, where he graduated in 1864. He first studied at the University of Breslau and Tübingen in natural sciences and then only geology again in Breslau, where he earned his doctorate at Ferdinand von Roemer.
After his studies, he came to Vienna and was through the mediation of his compatriot Guido Stache under the Director Franz von Hauer at the kk Imperial Geological Institute as an intern start. Total spent at the Imperial Institute 48 years.
Initially he worked as a geologist and recording mapped partly Galicia for the first time. These recordings he continued in Austrian Silesia and Northern Moravia to Bosko brázda. But in Bosnia, he led together with Alexander Bittner and Johann August Edmund Mojsisovics of Mojsvár by the first radiograph. Research expeditions have taken him to far away countries such as Persia or in the southern coastal regions of Asia Minor. As part of the international congresses geologists he traveled to many countries in Europe and North America.
In 1877, he was Chief Geologist, after leaving Mojsisovics ' into retirement in 1901, first vice-director of the Imperial geological Reichsanstalt. Early as 1902, he could take over as director after Guido Stache.
In 1903 he was elected president of the International Geological Congress in Vienna. His scientific interest was directed more in the geographical geology. An appeal to a professorship in the early 1880s in Bonn he refused. Increasingly he devoted himself to club duties as a member of the Vienna Geographical Society. The committee he was a member until 1880. Finally, he led the company over seven years. For his services to him the Franz-von Hauer medal was awarded and named honorary president later.
Since 1912, Tietze also belonged to the Geological Society.
Was married Tietze. Hauer with the daughter of Rosa Hauer, with whom he left a son, the mathematician Heinrich Tietze, and three daughters A daughter in turn married the geologist Wilhelm Petrascheck from Leoben.