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Emil Riebeck

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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = Emil
| name = Riebeck
| honorific_prefix = Dr
| honorific_suffix =
| image = File:Riebeck,_Emil.jpg
| birth_date = 1853
| death_date = 1885
| address = 10 George Street, Hanover Square, W
| occupation = explorer<br />mineralogist<br />ethnologist<br />naturalist
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1884.02.26
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow
| left = 1885 deceased
| clubs =
| societies =
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===

=== House Notes ===
1884.02.12 proposed for election at the next meeting
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Emil Riebeck (11 June 1853 – 22 June 1885) was a German explorer, mineralogist, ethnologist, and naturalist. He was born in Preusslitz to Carl Adolf Riebeck, an industrial magnate. He traveled to North Africa and Arabia several times, and in 1881 travelled with Georg Schweinfurth on an expedition to Socotra. He traveled with Adolf Bastian to the hills of Chittagong in 1882.<br /><br />In 1884, he financed Gottlob Krause’s expedition to the Niger River, Benue River, and Lake Chad.<br /><br />Riebeck amassed an extensive collection of artifacts from Eastern Asia, India, Arabia and Africa.<br /><br />The mineral riebeckite is named after him.<br /><br />Also, a species of Socotran lizard, Haemodracon riebeckii, is named in his honor.[1]
== Publications ==
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