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SUESS, EDUARD (1831– )

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SUESS, EDUARD (1831– ) , See also:Austrian geologist, was See also:born in See also:London on the loth of See also:August 1831, his See also:father, a native of See also:Saxony, having settled there as a See also:German See also:merchant. Three years later the See also:family removed to See also:Prague, and in 1845 to See also:Vienna. Eduard Suess was educated for commercial See also:life, but See also:early displayed a See also:bent for See also:geology. At the See also:age of nineteen he published a See also:short See also:sketch of the geology of See also:Carlsbad and its See also:mineral See also:waters; and in 1852 he was appointed an assistant in the Imperial museum of Vienna. There he studied the fossil See also:Brachiopoda, and manifested such ability that in 1857 he was appointed See also:professor of geology at the university. In 1862 he relinquished his museum duties, and gave his whole See also:time to See also:special See also:research and teaching, retaining his professorship until 1901. Questions of See also:ancient See also:physical See also:geography, such as the former connexion between See also:northern See also:Africa and See also:Europe, occupied his See also:attention; and in 1862 he published an See also:essay on the soils and See also:water-See also:supply of Vienna. He was elected a member of the See also:town See also:council, and in 1869 to a seat in the See also:Diet of See also:Lower See also:Austria, which he retained until 1896. Meanwhile he continued his See also:geological and palaeontological See also:work dealing with the See also:Tertiary strata of the Vienna See also:Basin, also turning his attention to the problems connected with the See also:evolution of the See also:earth's See also:surface-features, on which he wrote a monumental See also:treatise. This, the See also:great task of his life, embodied the results of See also:personal research and of a comprehensive study of the work of the leading geologists of all countries; it is entitled Antlitz der Erde, of which the first See also:volume was published in 1885, the second in 1888, and pt. i. of the third volume in 1901. The work has been translated into See also:French, and (in See also:part) into See also:English. Suess was elected a corresponding member of the See also:Institute of See also:France in 1889, and a See also:foreign member of the Royal Society in 1894.

In 1896 the Geological Society of London awarded to him the See also:

Wollaston See also:medal. Memoir (with portrait), by See also:Sir A. See also:Geikie, Nature (May 4, 1905).

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