!!!Payer, Julius von

b. Schoenau near Teplice, Czech Republic (then Teplitz), Sept. 2, 1841, 
d. Bled, Slovenia (then Veldes), Aug. 29, 1915, polar and alpine 
explorer, cartographer. Taught at the Military Academy, together with 
K.  Weyprecht 1871 led a preparatory expedition to the Arctic and 
1872-1874 the Austro-Hungarian  North Pole Expedition; August 30, 
1873, discovered the  Franz-Joseph-Land, which he first set foot on in 
1873 (November 1). P. also took part in the 2nd German North Pole 
expedition (1869/70) and gave Austrian names to the landscapes he 
discovered (in North-East Greenland: Tyrolerfjord,  
Franz-Josef-Fjord). P. was considered an outstanding alpinist, with 
over 30 first ascents mainly in the Glockner and Ortler ranges. After 
a stay in Paris 1884-1890 opened a painting school in Vienna and 
created pencil sketches, documentary pictures and maps of his 
expeditions.

!Works
Die Ortleralpen, 4 parts, 1867-1872; Das Innere Groenlands, 
1871; Die oesterreichisch-ungarische Nordpolexpedition in den Jahren 
1872-1874, 1876; Bergfahrten, ed. by W. Lehner, 1920.

!Literature
OeBL.



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