Antal Koch

Antal Koch , also Anton Koch , (born January 7, 1843 in Sombor , † February 8, 1927 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian geologist , mineralogist , petrograph and paleontologist .

Antal Koch

Koch received his doctorate from the University of Pest in 1864 and was then a teacher of mathematics and natural sciences at the grammar school in Eperjes . In 1868 he became an adjunct for geology at the University of Pest . In 1869 he was a founding member of the Royal Hungarian Geological Institute and studied with a state scholarship in 1869/70 at the universities of Bonn and Vienna. From 1872 to 1895 Koch was the first professor of geology and mineralogy in Cluj , whose rector he was from 1891/92, and then held the chair of geology and palaeontology at the University of Budapest until his retirement in 1913.

As a scientist, Koch still covered all areas of geosciences (geology, palaeontology, geophysics, mineralogy, petrography, cave research, meteorology) and mapped especially in Transylvania . Koch wrote a monograph on the Tertiary of the Transylvanian Basin, describing the trachyte group on the right bank of the Danube near Budapest and the geology of the Fruška Gora . The first scientific description of the mineral pseudobrookite comes from him.

Memberships existed in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (correspondent from 1875, full member from 1894) and in the Geological Society of London (1904).

Koch is the father of the geographer and geologist Nándor Koch (1885–1961), brother of the chemist Ferenc Koch (1853–1942) and uncle of the mineralogist Sandor Koch (1896–1983).

Fonts

• Geological description of the St. Andrä Visegrader and the Pilis Mountains (Hungarian) 1872
• Geology of the Fruska-Gora (Hungarian), Math-Naturwiss. Contributions from Hungary, 1896, 45–127
• Geological composition of the half of the Danube trachyte group on the right bank near Budapest, Journal of the German Geological Society 1876, 293–349
• The fossil mammal remains of Transylvania 1876 (Hungarian)
• The old-tertiary echinids of Transylvania, yearbook Kgl. Hungarian. Geolog. Institution 1885
• Critical Review of the Minerals of Transylvania (Hungarian), 1885
• About the geological structure of the Kronstadt Mountains (Hungarian) 1887
• The tertiary formations of the Transylvanian Basin (Hungarian), Annual Report Royal Hungarian. Geolog. Establishment 1894, 177-400
• Geological map of Hungary (Hungarian) 1896
• Nagybanya City and Surroundings 1898 (Hungarian)

literature

• Benda:  Koch, Antal (1843–1927), geologist. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 13.

Web links

• Literature by and about Antal Koch in the bibliographic database WorldCat