Carl Ludolf Griesbach
Austrian geologist and explorer
Carl Ludolf Griesbach (11 December 1847 – 13 April 1907), was an Austrian paleontologist and geologist who worked in East Africa and India.
Life
Carl Ludolf Griesbach was born in Vienna to George Ludolph Griesbach. He studied at the University of Vienna and worked with the Geological Survey of Vienna. He joined a German expedition to East Africa in 1869-70 and returned to live in London. He wrote on the geology of Natal, with numerous illustrations made by himself. In 1878 he joined the Geological Survey of India in Calcutta. He was part of the Afghan Boundary Commission between 1884 and 1886. For his work during this period, he was created C.I.E. in February 1887 and awarded the Afghan medal and clasp. He succeeded William King as Director of the Geological Survey of India in 1894.
Griesbach discovered fossils of the ammonoid Otoceras which he suggested as marking the earliest Triassic period thus marking the boundary of the Permian and the Triassic.
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