!!!Zsigmondy, Emil

b. Vienna, Aug. 11, 1861, 
d. on a climbing tour in the Meije mountains in the Dauphine region 
(France), Aug. 6, 1885, alpinist; brother of Richard  Zsigmondy. >From 
1876 undertook numerous first ascents in the Alps, some of them 
together with L.  Purtscheller. The Zsigmondy Peak in the Austrian 
Zillertal Alps, the Pic Zsigmondy on La Meije mountain in France and 
the Zsigmondy-Huette (Z. lodge) in the Sesto Dolomites in South Tyrol 
were named after him.

!Works
Die Gefahren der Alpen, 1885; Im Hochgebirge, 1889 (selection).



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