Edmund Thiele

Edmund Oswald Thiele (1874–1971), later known as Sir Edmund Oswald Teale KBE (he changed the spelling of his surname in 1917) was a prominent geologist from Doncaster, Victoria, Australia.

Career

He began a Geological survey in the German colony of Tanganyika in 1908 but was obliged to return to Australia during the First World War. During this time he found employment as a temporary Lecturer in geology at the University of Adelaide, replacing Sir Douglas Mawson who had left for Britain to help the war effort. Between 1917 and 1918 Teale took up a research fellowship at the University of Melbourne. After the war Teale returned to East Africa as part of the geological survey until 1936.

Thiele/Teale also did some work in New Zealand with Albert Ernest Kitson and later helped Kitson discover the first diamonds in the Gold Coast.

elected publications

* Leonard Darwin, Tempest Anderson, A. E. Kitson, E. O. Thiele, ’Some New Zealand Volcanoes: Discussion’, "The Geographical Journal", Vol. 40, No. 1 (Jul., 1912), pp. 23-25;

* A.E. Kitson & E.O.Thiele, ‘The Geography of the Upper Waitaki Basin, New Zealand’, "Geographical Journal", vol. 36, 1910, p. 431.

* E. O. Teale, 'Outline of the geology of Tanganyika Territory,' Bull. No. 6, revised, Geol. Surv. Tanganyika Territory, I936.

ources

* [http://cres.anu.edu.au/environhist/afhs_39.pdf Brief biography] , Australian Forest History Society Newsletter 39, December 2004, p. 5.