Prof. Edouard Brückner

Abstract

THE death of Prof. Edouard Bruckner at the age 1 of sixty-four years, which took place at Vienna on May 21, removes a figure well known to both meteorologists and geologists. Bruickner was born at Jena on July 29, 1862, his father being Alexander Brfickner, the historian, which may account for the historical bias of his early meteorological work. He received the degree of Ph.D. at Munich in 1885, and from 1886 until 1888 he acted as assistant editor of the Meteorologische Zeitschrift. It was during this period that he discovered the weather cycle of 35 years which is universally known as the Bruckner Cycle. During the next two or three years he collected a great deal of statistical evidence in support of this cycle, which he published in 1890 under the title: “Klimaschwankungen seit 1700,” now one of the classics of meteorology.