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Albert Heim

GEOLOGIST

1849 - 1937

Albert Heim

Albert Heim (12 April 1849 – 31 August 1937) was a Swiss geologist, noted for his three-volume Geologie der Schweiz. Born in Zürich, he was educated at Zürich and Berlin universities. Very early in life he became interested in the physical features of the Alps, and at the age of sixteen he made a model of the Tödi group. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Albert Heim has received more than 36,722 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Albert Heim is the 30th most popular geologist, the 355th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 322nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swiss Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Albert Heim ranks 30 out of 90. Before him are Adam Sedgwick, John Tuzo Wilson, Vladimir O

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Aribert Heim

Austrian SS doctor

Aribert Ferdinand Heim (28 June 1914 – 10 August 1992),[1] also known as Dr. Death and Butcher of Mauthausen, was an AustrianSchutzstaffel (SS) doctor. During World War II, he served at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Mauthausen, killing and torturing inmates using various methods, such as the direct injection of toxic compounds into the hearts of his victims.[2]

After the war, Heim lived in Cairo, Egypt, under the alias of Tarek Farid Hussein after his conversion to Islam.[3] In February 2009, after years of attempts to locate him, German television network ZDF had found Heim's passport and other documents in Cairo.[4] It was then reported that Heim had died there on 10 August 1992 from complications of rectal cancer, according to testimony by his son Ruediger and lawyer.[5] This information, though set forth by a German court, was questioned by Efraim Zuroff, a leading Nazi hunter of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.[2][6][4] Zuroff

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Albert Heim (1849–1937)

Professor of geology at the Federal Polytechnic Institute and the University of Zurich

The second child of businessman and banker Johann Konrad Heim and his wife Sophie Elisabeth (née Fries), Albert Heim was born in Zurich on 12 April 1849. Upon completing primary school in Zurich and Hottingen, he attended the Industrieschule (grammar school) from 1864 to 1866.

Motivation and interests in geology

Influenced by popular contemporary literature on the Alps, the foundation of the Swiss Alpine Club (SAC) in 1865 and excursions to the Glarus Alps and Appenzellerland, he already developed an interest in geological questions as a schoolboy: for instance, he used his great artistic and design talent to produce watercolours of glacial landscapes and reliefs of mountain ranges.

Studies and diploma thesis

In 1866, straight from school, Heim embarked on a science degree at the University of Zurich. After three semesters, he switched to the Federal Polytechnic Institute (now ETH Zurich), which he left in 1869 as a qualified "specialist subject teacher f

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