Erich von Drygalski

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Erich Dagobert von Drygalski
Geophysicist
, and polar scientist.

Erich Dagobert von Drygalski (German:

geophysicist and polar scientist, born in Königsberg, East Prussia
.

Between 1882 and 1887, Drygalski studied mathematics and natural science at the University of Königsberg, Bonn, Berlin and Leipzig. He graduated with a doctorate thesis about ice shields in Nordic areas. Between 1888 and 1891, he was an assistant at the Geodetic Institute and the Central Office of International Geodetics in Berlin.

Drygalski led two expeditions between 1891 and 1893, which were supplied by the Society for

Geoscience of Berlin. One expedition wintered during the winter between 1892 and 1893 in Western Greenland. He habilitated 1889 for geography and geophysics with the collected scientific evidence. In 1898, Drygalski became associate professor and 1899 extraordinary professor for geography and geophysics
in Berlin.

Gauss expedition

Main article: Gauss expedition
The Gauss enclosed in the ice. Photo taken from a balloon, the first aerial photography in Antarctica

Drygalski led the first German

Patron's Medal.[1]

Later years

From October 1906 until his retirement, Drygalski was a professor in Munich, where he also presided the Geographic Institute, founded by him, until his death. In 1910, he also took part in Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's expedition to Spitsbergen and participated in other expeditions to North America and northeastern Asia. He died in 1949 in Munich.

Trivia

Ludwig Maximilians University remembers his pioneering efforts. He also has a South African spider named after him, Araneus drygalskii
(Strand, 1909), based on material collected on the Gauss expedition.

The standard author abbreviation Dryg. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]

References

  1. ^ "List of Past Gold Medal Winners" (PDF). Royal Geographical Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
  2. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Dryg.

Further reading

  • Murphy, David Thomas (2002). "Imperial Failure in the Antarctic". German Exploration of the Polar World : A History, 1870–1940. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. pp. 65–106.
    ISBN 0-8032-3205-5
    .

External links
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