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May 26, 1841 Olomouc, Olomouc Region, Czech Republic Died on 06 Sep 1901 (aged 60)
Austrian-Czech scholar
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About Wilhelm Tomaschek
- Wilhelm Tomaschek, or Vilém Tomášek (May 26, 1841, Olomouc – September 9, 1901, Vienna) was a Czech-Austrian geographer and orientalist.
- He is known for his work in the fields of historical topography and historical ethnography.Born at Olmütz, in Moravia, he received his education at the University of Vienna (1860–64), afterwards working as a teacher in gymnasiums at Sankt Pölten and Vienna.
- On the strength of the first volume of Centralasiatische Studien, he was named an associate professor of geography at the University of Graz in 1877.
- In 1881 he became a "full professor", and in 1885, was appointed chair of historical geography at the University of Vienna.
- In 1899 he became a regular member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.In 1933 the thoroughfare Tomaschekstraße, in the district of Floridsdorf (Vienna), was named in his honor.
