Geological maps of Europe (1780-1918)

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Hibsch, Josef Emanuel Prof. Dr.

born 26th March 1852, Homole near Litoměřice, died 4th November 1940, Vienna

Geologist, petrographer, and teacher. He completed his university education in Vienna and, in 1872, he became teacher at secondary school in Pilsen. In 1874 - 1878 he was an assistant at the College of Technology (Technische Hochschule) in Vienna. Since 1880, he taught mineralogy, petrography, geology and pedology at the Provincial Commercial Academy in Libverda near Děčín where he worked for 34 years. After his retirement he moved to Vienna. Between 1919 and 1921 he taught geology at the „Hochschule für Bodenkultur“ and the primary school in Volkesheim in Vienna. His life’s scientific work is mainly devoted to the České středohoří Mountains and their neovolcanism and its correlation with European volcanites. He published more than a hundred of scientific papers on this northern part of Bohemia, where he concentrated mainly on local mineralogy, petrography, geology, paleontology, and hydrogeology. His main work, the collection of 21 geological map sheets at a scale of 1 : 25 000 'Geologická speciální mapa Českého středohoří' (Geological special-purpose map of the České středohoří Mountains), was published in German. In 1926, he wrote explanatory notes for the geological map of the České středohoří Mountains, and in 1934, a book on local mineralogy. The museum in Děčín was enlarged by the vast collection of minerals, rocks and fossils from the České středohoří Mountains. His scientific work, promotion and teaching activities were acknowledged and appreciated by the membership in a number of scientific institutions.

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