Person
Krausé, Ferdinand Moritz (1841 - 1918)
- Born
- 24 February 1841
Cassel, Germany - Died
- 16 June 1918
South Africa - Occupation
- Civil engineer and Geologist
Summary
Ferdinand Krausé, FGS FLS CE, was a surveyor with the Geological Survey of Victoria 1870-1880c, Lecturer and Museum Curator, Ballarat School of Mines 1880-1895 and Lecturer in Mining, University of Melbourne 1895-1897.
Details
Chronology
- 1865 - 1868
- Career position - Engineer and surveyor, Water Supply Department
- 1870
- Career event - Granted Certificate of Competency as Engineer and Surveyor (CE), (2nd Class No.B6), Shires Statute and Boroughs Statute 1869 VIC
- 1870 - c. 1880
- Career position - Surveyor, Geological Survey of Victoria
- 8 Jan 1878
- Career event - Victorian public servants summarily dismissed on 'Black Wednesday'
- 1880 - 1895
- Career position - Lecturer and Museum Curator, Ballarat School of Mines
- 1886 - 1888
- Career position - Municipal Engineer, Ballarat Shire
- 1888 -
- Career event - Original [founding] member, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1891
- Career event - Member, Victorian Institute of Surveyors
- 1895 - 1897
- Career position - Lecturer in Mining, University of Melbourne
- 1896
- Career event - Published: Introduction to the study of Mineralogy for Australian readers
Related entries
Published resources
Book Sections
- Knight, J. L.; Day, P. L., 'Krausé, Ferdinand Moritz (1841-1918), civil engineer and geologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 5: 1851 - 1890 K-Q, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1974), p. 42. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050050b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24088281. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/201242655. Details
- 'Krausé, Ferdinand Moritz (1841-1918)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1469011. Details
Gavan McCarthy; Ken McInnes
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 26 September 2024
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