George Henry Frederick Ulrich
1830–1900
German-born geologist. Became a naturalised British subject. Worked in the Prussian mines service before emigrating to Australia in 1853. Worked on goldfields in Victoria, 1853–7. Employed by the Geological Survey of Victoria, 1858–69. Curator of minerals at the Industrial and Technological Museum in Melbourne, and lecturer in mining at the University of Melbourne. Examined the goldfields in Otago province, New Zealand, 1875. Director of the school of mines, Dunedin, from 1878.
Source
DNZB
Bibliography
DNZB: A dictionary of New Zealand biography. Edited by G. H. Scholefield. 2 vols. Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Internal Affairs. 1940. The dictionary of New Zealand biography. Edited by W. H. Oliver et al. 5 vols. Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Internal Affairs [and others]. 1990–2000.
