Nikolai Ivanovich KRIGER: Loessperson

Kriger was a great loess scholar and published vast amounts of material on loess. He worked with Marton Pecsi within the confines of the INQUA Loess Commission- mostly on practical problems with loess. He was concerned with the connection between loess and aridity. His major work was his book on loess as a geographical entity which was produced for the INQUA Congress in the USA in 1965. Only 1350 copies were printed, and it was not translated into English; it was not as widely appreciated as it should have been. It had a fine bibliography attached, which was published separately by Loess Letter as Supplement 13 in 1986.

Not a great picture; its very hard to find pictures of Kriger. This is enlarged from a group photograph taken at the International Geological Congress in Moscow in 1982. There must be other pictures somewhere; Loess Ground would be very pleased to see them.