Carl Ludolf Griesbach (11 December 1847 – 13 April 1907), was an Austrian paleontologist and geologist who worked in East Africa and India.

He joined a German expedition to East Africa in 1869-70 and returned to live in London.

He succeeded William King as Director of the Geological Survey of India in 1894.

[4] In 1896, Johann Mojsisovics named the Griesbachites genus after Griesbach's work in this area.

[2] In recognition of his work, Tim Tozer of the Geological Survey of Canada named a creek on northwest Axel Heiberg Island (Canadian High Arctic) after him, and subsequently defined the Early Triassic sub-stage of Griesbachian time at that site.