| Tietze, Emil Ernstth August Dr. phil.
Geologist, director of the Imperial Geological Institute in Vienna. He studied earth sciences at the universities of Breslau and Tübingen. In 1870, he joined the Imperial Geological Institute in Vienna, and after his return from scientific mission to Persia (1873 - 1875), worked there as superintendent. In 1879, he was in charge of geological mapping project in Bosnia and, in 1881, in Montenegro. In 1900, he was appointed deputy director and in 1902 director general of the Imperial Geological Institute in Vienna. He was mainly involved in regional geology and mapping. He carried out geological survey in Moravia and Silesia, especially around Olomouc, Ostrava, Bruntál, Lanškroun, Moravská Tøebová, Bøezová, and Jevíèko. He considerably contributed to geological investigations of the flysh belt in Galicia, examined geology in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and also in Persia (Iran). He published numerous geological studies among which the following are worth mentioning: 'Die geognotischen Verhältnisse der Gegend von Landskron und Gewitsch', 'Bemerkungen über das Project einer Wasserversorgung der Stadt Brünn aus dem Gebiet nördlich Lettowitz' (1899), 'Erläuterungen zur geologischen Karte Nr. 39. Landskron-Mährisch Trübau', 'Die geognostischen Verhältnisse der Gegend von Olmütz' (1893), 'Die Geologie der Gegend von Ostrau' (1893), 'Studien in der Sandsteinzone der Karpathen' (with K. M. Paul, 1877), 'Die Versuche einer Gliederung des unteren Neogens in den österreichischen Ländern' (1884), 'Zur Frage der Wasserversorgung der Stadt Brünn' (1902), 'Zur Geologie der Gegend von Ostrau' (1892), 'Geognosie von Lemberg' (1882), 'Geognosie von Galizien', 'Mineralreichtum Persiens' (1879), 'Steppen und Wüsten'.
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born 15th June 1845, Breslau (now Wróclaw), died 4th March 1931, Vienna
