Georg Gürich

Georg Julius Ernst Gürich (25 September 1859, in Dobrodzień, Kingdom of Prussia – 16 August 1938 in Berlin)[1] was a German geologist,[2] paleontologist and university teacher, who wrote on Paleozoic geological formations in Poland[3] and ranged through Guinea, Tanzania and Southern Africa (at the time German colonies), in search of unrecorded new species.

In 1885, he first went to Africa, participating in a German scientific expedition to Nigeria and travelled in the western Sudan (1885), and in South-West Africa, now Namibia (May 1888 to January 1889), mostly in the western mountains from Otjitambi to Rehoboth, to do geological research on behalf of the "Southwest African Gold Syndicate" (Südwestafrikanisches Goldsyndikat), with the aim of exploring alleged deposits of gold.

Reisebilder aus den Jahren 1888 und 1889 contains substantial additional information on the current political and social conditions in Namibia.

In the following years, he travelled widely in Europe, Australia, Venezuela and Alaska and returned to Africa.

He followed up his paleontological research on Namibia, with another field trip in 1928, resulting in many scientific publications.

Georg Gürich (1912)