Alexander Tornquist (18 June 1868 in Hamburg – 1 November 1944, Graz) was a German-Austrian geologist, who is known for his work on the northern part of the Trans European Suture Zone and on Mediterranean geology.
Tornquistʹs bona fide involvement and expertise in the so called West-Styrian beryl-scandal around fraudster Emil Johann Paul Mehling (alias Dr. Kurt Seidler) in the years 1929/30 lead to his early retirement from the university in 1933.
In 1897, Alexander Tornquist married Anna Elisabeth Henze, who was born on 9 February 1877 in Dresden and daughter of a sculptor.
[1] Alexander Tornquistʹs son Martin Wolfgang Tornquist (born on 31 May 1900 in Strasbourg) was a painter and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, where he befriended Neher.
Martin was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1925, repeatedly admitted to different psychiatric institutions and not released after a stay at the end of 1940.