Biographical entry
| Home | Browse | Search | Previous | Next |
|
|
Bright Sparcs
Biographical entry
|
|
|
Geissmann, Hilda Gladys (1890 - 1988) |
||
|
||
| Naturalist and Photographer | ||
| Born: 1890 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Died: 1988. | ||
| Hilda Gladys Geissmann was a self-taught naturalist and nature photographer. She became an expert on the flora and fauna of the Mount Tamborine region in Queensland. She is said to have known the more about the flora and fauna there than any other person. Many of her specimens were greatly prized because of their rarity, beauty or quality and are housed in museums and herbariums throughout Australia and in the USA. Although Geissmann had a love of all natural things her true passion was birds and orchids. She developed a high standing in the native orchard world especially for her exquisite photographs which she developed and printed herself. She left such a positive impression on the people of Tamborine that local residents erected a monument after her death. It was inscribed with “A true pioneer of natural history. We remember her on the mountain she loved.” |
| ||
| ||
|
|
| ||
|
Published by The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on ASAPWeb, 1994 - 2007 Originally published 1994-1999 by Australian Science Archives Project, 1999-2006 by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre Disclaimer, Copyright and Privacy Policy Submit any comments, questions, corrections and additions Prepared by: Acknowledgements Updated: 26 February 2007 http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P004763b.htm |