Adolf Fritz

Adolf Fritz (born March 10, 1929 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian paleobotanist and teacher.

In 1954 Fritz started working as a middle school teacher in Klagenfurt. Fritz was in 1968 at the University of Graz Dr. phil. doctorate and habilitation in 1971 in palaeobotany . In 1982 he was appointed associate professor.

As a paleobotanist, Fritz works primarily in the field of pollen analysis .

Publications (selection)

• Contribution to the late and post-glacial pollen stratigraphy and vegetation history of Carinthia. In: Carinthia II. 157/77. Year, Klagenfurt 1967, pp. 5–37 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
• The Pleistocene flora of Carinthia, with a contribution to the Pleistocene distribution history of the common beech, Fagus sylvatica L., in Europe. 29. Special issue of Carinthia II. Klagenfurt 1970, pp. 1–63.

literature

• Helmuth Zapfe : Index Palaeontologicorum Austriae (= Catalogus fossilium Austriae issue 15). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1971, p. 33 ( PDF (380 kB) on ZOBODAT ).
• Gerfried Horand Menschen, Paul Mildner, Ferdinand Stefan, Helmut Zwander: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Adolf Fritz 60 years. In: Carinthia II. 179/99. Year, Klagenfurt 1989, pp. 357–362 ( PDF (1.1 MB) on ZOBODAT ).
• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Adolf Fritz on reaching the age of 80. In: Carinthia II. 199/119. Volume, Klagenfurt 2009, pp. 259–260 ( PDF (256 kB) on ZOBODAT ).