The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Wild, Heinrich
WILD, Heinrich, hīn'rĭH vĭlt, Swiss
meteorologist: b. Uster, 17 Dec. 1833; d. Zurich, 3
Sept. 1902. His education was obtained at
Zurich, Königsberg and Heidelberg, and from 1863
to 1865 he was director of the central meteorological
bureau at Bern. He was called to Saint
Petersburg, and was director of the Russian
meteorological service 1868-95, when he retired.
He invented the polaristrobometer, a polarization
plutometer, a magnetic theodolite and other
optical instruments, edited the Russian ‘Neues
Repertorium für Meteurologie,’ and published
‘Temperatur-Verhältnisse des russischfen
Reichs’ (1876), and technical papers.