Emil Riebeck
Emil Riebeck | |
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| Born | 11 June 1853 |
| Died | 22 June 1885 (aged 32) |
Emil Riebeck (11 June 1853 – 22 June 1885) was a German explorer, mineralogist, ethnologist, and naturalist. He was born in Preußlitz to Carl Adolf Riebeck, an industrial magnate. He travelled to North Africa and Arabia several times, and in 1881 travelled with Georg Schweinfurth on an expedition to Socotra. He travelled with Adolf Bastian to the hills of Chittagong in 1882.
In 1884, he financed Gottlob Krause’s expedition to the Niger River, Benue River, and Lake Chad.
Riebeck amassed an extensive collection of artifacts from Eastern Asia, India, Arabia, and Africa.
The mineral riebeckite is named after him.
Also, a species of Socotran lizard, Haemodracon riebeckii, is named in his honour.[1]
References
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 221. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5.
Further reading
- Riebeck, Emil (1885). Die Hügelstämme von Chittagong. Ergebnisse einer Reise im Jahre 1882 [The Hill Tribes of Chittagong. Results of a Journey in 1882.] (in German). Berlin: A. Asher & Co.
- Taschenberg, Otto (1883). "Beiträge zur Fauna der Insel Sokotra, vorzüglich nach dem von Herrn Dr. Emil Riebeck aus Halle a.S. gesammelten Materiale zusammengestellt von Dr. O. Taschenberg in Halle a.S." [Contributions to the fauna of the island of Socotra, primarily based on material collected by Dr. Emil Riebeck from Halle a.S., compiled by Dr. O. Taschenberg in Halle a.S.]. Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaften (in German). Leipzig.