Leo Wehrli

Leo Wehrli (born February 25, 1870, in Aarau; d. March 28, 1954 in Zurich) was a Swiss geologist, secondary school and continuing education teacher, explorer, and photographer.

[1] Leo Wehrli studied music, botany, chemistry, mineralogy, petrography and geology in Berlin and Zurich and became assistant to Albert Heim.

After submitting his dissertation on the Diorite area of Tschlin and Disentis, he went to Argentina with Carl Emanuel Burckhardt in 1896.

On behalf of the La Plata Museum and the Argentine government, he explored the Andes and crossed them at least five times during his two-year stay.

After his return, he worked from 1900 to 1935 as a teacher of geology and chemistry at the Kantonsschule Hohe Promenade in Zurich.

Self portrait by Leo Wehrli on the Mythen Massif (1896)