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memory, not only because this would be terribly ungrateful, but every level. That also made him a very successful father of six chil-
especially because we have yet to learn so much from his work. dren and an exemplary spouse. Let me end with a judgment by one
Whether we realize it or not, we are all still his students, even, of the giants of Alpine geology, Rudolf Trümpy (1921–2009): “Suess
and especially, after plate tectonics. was the only genious in the history of geology who had no vices.”

SUESS, THE MAN AND THE PUBLIC SERVANT FURTHER READING
I conclude this short piece about Suess by reminding my readers Şengör, A.M.C., 2014, Eduard Suess and global tectonics: An illustrated ‘short
that he was responsible for providing fresh and healthy drinking guide’: Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences (Suess special issue), v. 107,
water to Vienna and changing the course of the Danube to stop the p. 6–82
repeated floods in Vienna. These two great engineering projects Şengör, A.M.C., 2015, The founder of modern geology died 100 years ago: The
reduced the death rate from such diseases as typhoid fever and scientific work and legacy of Eduard Suess: Geoscience Canada, v. 42,
cholera in Vienna to only a few percent of their previous values. p. 181–246, https://doi.org/10.12789/geocanj.2015.42.070.
Suess was a member of the Austrian Imperial Parliament for 30 Şengör, A.M.C., 2019, Eduard Suess and the essence of geology, in Rossetti, F.,
years, and in that capacity, he fought to wrench the schools from Crespo Blanc, A., Riguzzi, F., Leroux, E., Pavlopoulos, K., Bellier, O., and Kap-
simalis, V., eds., The Structural Geology Contribution to the Africa-Eurasia
the control of the church. Geology: Basement and Reservoir Structure, Ore Mineralisation and Tectonic
Everybody who had contact with him personally acknowledged Modelling: Cham, Denmark, Springer, Advances in Science, Technology &
his modesty, kindness, and generosity toward his fellow humans at Innovation, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01455-1_5.

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