IN MEMORIAM - Professor Iosif Viehmann (1 September 1925 – 6 August 2016)

Abstract

IOSIF VIEHMANN (Pepi, for family and friends) came to this world the first of September 1925, as the son of Iosif Viehmann, violonist at the Romanian Opera in Cluj, and Elisabeta Mureșan.

In 1940, after the loss of a part of Transylvania by the Vienna Dictum, Iosif (16 years old) and his brother Eugen (11 years old) fled to Timișoara with their mother. Here, the young Iosif Viehmann graduated the National College “C. D. Loga” in 1944.

After returning to Cluj, Iosif enrolled in the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the “Victor Babeș” University and graduated in 1950 with a thesis on the genesis of stalagmites.