Alexander Bittner

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Alexander Bittner (born March 6, 1850 in Friedland , Bohemia, † March 31, 1902 in Vienna ) was an Austrian geologist and paleontologist.

Live and act

Alexander Bittner, the son of a businessman, attended high schools in Jičín and Prague. His paternal great-uncle was the Prague astronomer Adam Bittner . After studying at the University of Vienna , he was Eduard Suess ' assistant from 1873 , where he also undertook geological research trips to Italy and Greece . In 1881 Bittner was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. From 1897 the receiving geologist , who had been working since 1877, was head of the Imperial Geological Institute in Vienna. His merits lie in the work on alpine geology as well as in paleontology.

Bittner was also a very good draftsman, he made numerous detailed sketches of building damage to structures after the earthquake in northern Italy in 1873.

Bittner, who suffered from asthma, remained unmarried. He died of paralysis on March 31, 1902 . He was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 27 B, row 2, grave 63). The grave, which fell into disrepair for a long time, was repaired by the City of Vienna in 1984 at the suggestion of Richard Lein .

His professional career has always been influenced by the dispute with Edmund von Mojsisovics , with whom he was on the road on numerous recordings, about the structure of the Alpine Triassic . A no longer published manuscript also suggests that it could also be a personal conflict and not just a matter of factual level.

Grave of Alexander Bittner at the Vienna Central Cemetery

Bittner was buried in an honorary grave at the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 27 B).

Fonts

  • Observations on Vesuvius . Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1874, pp. 287–288 online (PDF; 334 kB)
  • The Brachyurs of the Vicentine Tertiary Mountains . Memorandum Akad. Wiss. Vienna 34 2, pp. 63–106, 1875 online (PDF; 5.3 MB)
  • with Theodor Fuchs: The Pliocene Formation of Syracuse and Lentini . Meeting reports of the Academy of Sciences, mathematical and natural science class 71, pp. 179–188, 1875 online (PDF; 754 kB)
  • with Melchior Neumayr, Friedrich Teller: Geological work in the Oriente . Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1876, pp. 219–227 online (PDF; 774 kB)
  • About Phymatocarcinus speciosus Reuss . Meeting reports of the Academy of Sciences, Mathematical and Scientific Class 75, pp. 335–347, 1877 online (PDF; 1.2 MB)
  • The alpine area between Vicenza and Verona . Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1877, p. 226–231 online (PDF; 576 kB)
  • The tertiary formations of Bassano and Schio . Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1877, pp. 207–210 online (PDF; 470 kB)
  • Conularia in the Triassic . Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1878, pp. 281–282 online (PDF; 320 kB)
  • The Tertiary of Marostica . Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1878, pp. 127–130 online (PDF; 440 kB)
  • The geological structure of the southern Baldo Mountains . Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1878, p. 396–402 online (PDF; 674 kB)
  • Over the limestone of the Hohe Wand . Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1878, p. 224–225 online (PDF; 320 kB)
  • Occurrence of Hallstatt petrefacts in the Piestinger Thale and on the Hohe Wand near Wiener Neustadt . Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1878, pp. 153–158 online (PDF; 598 kB)
  • Presentation of the Tredici Communi card . Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1878, pp. 58–63 online (PDF; 544 kB)
  • From Herzegovina . Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1879, pp. 287–293 online (PDF; 1.1 MB)
  • Travel report from Herzegovina . Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1879, pp. 310–312 online (PDF; 404 kB)
  • Sarajevo - Mostar route . Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1879, pp. 257–260 online (PDF; 484 kB)
  • Triassic of Recoaro . Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1879, pp. 71–78 online (PDF; 786 kB)
  • Presentation of the geological overview map of Hercegovina and the southernmost parts of Bosnia . Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1879, pp. 351–352 online (PDF; 328 kB)
  • The geological construction of Attica, Boeotien, Lokris and Parnassis . Memorandum Akad. Wiss. Wien 40_1, 1880, pp. 1–74 online (PDF; 8.3 MB)
  • with Melchior Neumayr: Overview of the geological conditions of part of the Aegean coastal countries . Memorandum Akad. Wiss. Wien 40_1, 1880, pp. 379-415.
  • Hercegovina and the most south-eastern parts of Bosnia . Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute 030, 1880, pp. 353–438 online (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  • with Johann August Edmund, Mojsisovics von Mojsvar, Emil Tietze: Basics of the geology of Bosnia-Hercegovina . Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute 030, 1880, pp. 159–166 online (PDF; 691 kB)
  • The sedimentary formations in Judicariums . Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1880, pp. 233–238 online (PDF; 606 kB)
  • About the geological recordings in Judicariums and Yal Sabbia . Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute 031, 1881, pp. 219–370 online (PDF; 12.0 MB)
  • Comments on the above communication . Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1881, pp. 27–28 online (PDF; 321 kB)
  • Report on the recordings in the Brescia area . Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1881, p. 269–273 online (PDF; 550 kB)
  • Communications from the reception area . Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1881, pp. 52–54 online (PDF; 397 kB)
  • About the triad formations of Recoaro . Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1881, pp. 273–275 online (PDF; 402 kB)
  • Contributions to the knowledge of the echinid fauna of the Old Tertiary of Vicenza and Verona . Contribution Paleont. u. Geol. Austria-Hungary and Orient 001, 1882, pp. 73–110 online (PDF; 5.7 MB)
  • From the Hallein Mountains . Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1882, pp. 235–240 online (PDF; 600 kB)
  • Communications about the Old Tertiary of the Colli Berici . Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1882, pp. 82–94 online (PDF; 1.0 MB)
  • New petrefact locations in the Lias and Triassic of the Salzburg Alps . Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1882, pp. 317–319 online (PDF; 387 kB)
  • New contributions to the knowledge of the Brachyur fauna of the Old Tertiary of Vicenza and Verona . Memorandum Akad. Wiss. Wien 46_2, 1883, pp. 299–316 online (PDF; 2.0 MB)
  • Report on the geological surveys in the Triassic region of Recoaro . Yearbook of the Imperial-Royal Geological Institute 033, 1883, pp. 561–634 online (PDF; 5.7 MB)
  • Supplements to the reports on the geological surveys in Judicariums and Val Sabbia . Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute 033, 1883, pp. 405–442 online (PDF; 3.0 MB)
  • About the character of the Sarmatic fauna of the Vienna basin . Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute 033, 1883, pp. 131–150 online (PDF; 1.7 MB)
  • Micropsis Veronensis, a new echinid from the northern Italian Eocaens . Meeting reports of the Academy of Sciences, Mathematical and Scientific Class 88, 1883, pp. 444–449 online (PDF; 622 kB)
  • The Untersberg and the immediate vicinity of Golling . Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1883, pp. 200–204 online (PDF; 547 kB)
  • Submissions of eocene and neogene petrefacts from Hercegowina by Captain Baron v. Spoon wood . Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1883, pp. 134–136 online (PDF; 390 kB)
  • A triadic conularia. Negotiations of the Imperial-Royal Geological Institute Vienna, year 1890, (9), Vienna 1890, pp. 177–178.
  • Brachiopods of the Alpine Triassic. Treatises of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute Volume XIV, 41 plates, 325 pp., Alfred Hölder, Vienna 1890
  • Brachiopods of the Alpine Triassic, Addendum I. Treatises of the Imperial and Royal Geological Reichsanstalt Volume XVII, Issue 2, 4 plates, pp. 1 - 40, Verlag der kk Geologische Reichsanstalt, Vienna 1892
  • New species from the Triassic of Balia in Asia Minor. Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute Volume XLIII, 1892, Issue 1, Verlag der kk Geologische Reichsanstalt, Vienna 1893, 77 - 90, Taf. IV - V
  • What is norish Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute Volume XLIII, 1892, Issue 3, Verlag der kk Geologische Reichsanstalt, Vienna 1893, pp. 387–396.
  • On the more recent literature of the Alpine Triassic. Yearbook of the imperial-royal geological Reichsanstalt Volume XLIV, 1894, Issue 2, Verlag der kk Geologische Reichsanstalt, in Commission with R. Lechner (W. Müller), Vienna 1894, pp. 233–379.
  • About the genus Rhynchonellina Gemm. Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute Volume XLIV, 1894, Issue 3–4, Verlag der kk Geologische Reichsanstalt, in Commission with R. Lechner (W. Müller), Vienna 1894, 547 - 572, Plate VIII - IX
  • Brachiopods from the Lagonegro Triassic in southern Italy. Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Geological Reichsanstalt Volume XLIV, 1894, Issue 3–4, Verlag der kk Geologische Reichsanstalt, in Commission with R. Lechner (W. Müller), Vienna 1894, pp. 583–588.
  • Lamellibranchiats of the Alpine Triassic, Part I: Revision of the Lamellibranchiaten by Sct. Cassian. Treatises of the imperial-royal geological Reichsanstalt Volume XVIII, Issue 1, 24 plates, 236 pp., Verlag der kk Geologische Reichsanstalt, in Commission at R. Lechner (W. Müller), Vienna 1895
  • For the definitive determination of the term "norisch" in the Alpine Triassic. Self-published by the author, company printing house Brüder Hollinck, Vienna 1895 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.14081
  • New brachiopods and a new halobia from the Triassic of Balia in Asia Minor. Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Geological Reichsanstalt Volume XLV, 1895, Issue 2–3, Verlag der kk Geologische Reichsanstalt, in Commission at R. Lechner (W. Müller), Vienna 1896, pp. 249-254, Plate XI
  • Rhynchonellina Geyeri, a new brachiopod from the Gailthaler Alps. Yearbook of the imperial-royal geological Reichsanstalt Volume XLVII, 1897, Book 2, Verlag der kk Geologische Reichsanstalt, in Commission with R. Lechner (W. Müller), Vienna 1897, pp. 387 - 392, panels XI - XII
  • About the stratigraphic position of the Lunzer sandstone in the Triassic formation. Yearbook of the imperial-royal geological Reichsanstalt Volume XLVII, 1897, Issue 3–4, Verlag der kk Geologische Reichsanstalt, in Commission at R. Lechner (W. Müller), Vienna 1898, pp. 429–454.
  • Reply to the writing of the thirty-five real members of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in the matter of Mr. E. v. Mojsisovics. Publishing house by Dr. A. Bittner, company printing house, Vienna 1898
  • A remark on the nomenclature and structure of the Alpine Triassic. 6 p., Company printing house, Hollinck brothers, Vienna 1899
  • About the triadic lamellar branched genus Mysidioptera Sal. And its relationship to the Palaeozoic genera. Yearbook of the imperial-royal geological Reichsanstalt Volume L 1900, Issue 1, Verlag der kk Geologische Reichsanstalt, in Commission at R. Lechner (W. Müller), Vienna 1900, pp. 59 - 66, plate VI
  • About Pseudomonotis Telleri and related species of the lower Triassic. Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute Volume L 1900, Issue 4, Verlag der kk Geologische Reichsanstalt, in Commission at R. Lechner (W. Müller), Vienna 1901, pp. 559 - 592, Taf. XXII - XIV
  • Lamellibranchies from the triad of Hudiklanec next to Loitsch in Carniola. Yearbook of the imperial-royal geological Reichsanstalt Volume LI 1901, Issue 2, Verlag der kk Geologische Reichsanstalt, in Commission at R. Lechner (W. Müller), Vienna 1902, pp. 225-234, plate VII
  • Brachiopods and Lamellibranchiaten from the Triassic of Bosnia, Dalmatia and Veneto. Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute Volume LII 1902, Issue 3–4, Verlag der kk Geologische Reichsanstalt, in Commission at R. Lechner (W. Müller), Vienna 1903, 495 - 642, Taf. XVIII - XXVII

literature

  • E. Zimmermann: Dr. Andreas Bittner † . In: Negotiations of the Imperial Geological Institute 1902, No. 6, pp. 165–170 ( online )
  • Alexander Bittner. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 88.
  • Franz Tatzreiter: New contributions to the life of Alexander Bittner. A supplement to the 100th anniversary of his death . In: Reports of the Federal Geological Institute 55, 2003 ( online ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Quensted:  Bittner, Alexander. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 281 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ^ A b Franz Tatzreiter: New contributions to the life of Alexander Bittner. A supplement to the 100th anniversary of his death . In: Reports of the Federal Geological Institute 55, 2003, p. 9 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Bittner, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedland , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1902
Place of death Vienna