Alexander Tornquist
German geologist
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- PhD Geology University of Hamburg
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alexander Tornquist was a German-Austrian geologist, who is known for his work on the northern part of the Trans European Suture Zone and on Mediterranean geology. Biography Alexander Tornquist was son of the merchant Alexander Heinrich Tornquist and Minna Mathilde Tornquist, née Fett. He studied at the universities of Freiburg, Munich and Göttingen. In 1892 he received a PhD in geology and paleontology at the university of Göttingen. In 1901 he obtained an associate professorship for geology and paleontology at Strasbourg, and in 1907 became a full professor at Königsberg. In Königsberg he also served as director of the famous Prussian amber collection and of the institute of seismology. He spent his later life in Graz, where he had a professorship at the Technische Hochschule from 1914 onward. From 1915 to 1918, he served as dean to the chemo-technical faculty. From 1924 to 1926, Tornquist was rector of the Technische Hochschule. Tornquistʹs bona fide involvement and expertise in the so called West-Styrian beryl-scandal around fraudster Emil Johann Paul Mehling in the years 1929/30 lead to his early retirement from the university in 1933.
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