Education
University of Vienna.
geographer historian university professor
University of Vienna.
He is known for his work in the fields of historical topography and historical ethnography. Born at Olmütz, in Moravia, he received his education at the University of Vienna (1860-1864), afterwards working as a teacher in gymnasiums at Sankt Pölten and Vienna. On the strength of the first volume of Centralasiatische Studien, he was named an associate professor of geography at the University of Graz in 1877.
In 1881 he became a "full professor", and in 1885, was appointed chair of historical geography at the University of Vienna.
In 1933 the thoroughfare Tomaschekstraße, in the district of Floridsdorf (Vienna), was named in his honor.
Austrian Academy of Sciences. Russian Academy of Sciences]
In 1899 he became a regular member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.