"August Heinrich Sieberg (born 23 Dec 1875 in Aachen; died 18 November 1945 in Jena) was a German geophysicist. He researched mainly in the field of ...
seismology and developed a seismic intensity scales as well as a tsunami intensity scale.
Sieberg studied natural sciences at TH Aachen and the universities Straßburg, Freiburg and Jena; he also studied architecture. Since 1895 he was assistant at the Meteorological Observatory Aachen, between 1904 and 1914 at the Imperial Main Station for Earthquake Research (today Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre) in Strasbourg, founded in 1899. From 1910 he was a part-time employee of the Strasbourg central office of the International Seismological Association (ISA), today´s International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth´s Interior [de]." - (en.wikipedia.org 29.01.2020)
