Abich, WILHELM HERMANN

Abich, WILHELM HERMANN, geologist and traveller, was born at Berlin, December 11, 1806. He studied at Berlin, became professor at Dorpat in 1842, Fellow of the St Petersburg Academy in 1853, and after 1877 lived at Vienna. He explored the Caucasus region, the Armenian highlands, and Northern Persia, and his published works are invaluable geological and meteorological memoirs on these countries. He died 2d July 1886.