Wilhelm Tomaschek

Wilhelm Tomaschek, or Vilém Tomášek (May 26, 1841, Olomouc – September 9, 1901, Vienna) was a Czech-Austrian geographer and orientalist.

[1] Born at Olmütz, in Moravia, he received his education at the University of Vienna (1860–64), afterwards working as a teacher in gymnasiums at Sankt Pölten and Vienna.

[2] On the strength of the first volume of Centralasiatische Studien, he was named an associate professor of geography at the University of Graz in 1877.

In 1881 he attained the rank of full professor, and in 1885, was appointed chair of historical geography at the University of Vienna.

[1][3] In 1933 the thoroughfare Tomaschekstraße, in the district of Floridsdorf (Vienna), was named in his honor.