August Heinrich (fossil collector)

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August Heinrich (born February 4, 1859 in Graz , † April 23, 1926 in Bischofshofen ) was an Austrian doctor and fossil collector .

Henry received his doctorate in 1883 at the University of Graz Dr. med. He worked as a doctor in Bischofshofen. Heinrich collected fossils in the Alpine Upper Triassic , especially in the Hallstatt Limestone . Today his collection is in the Natural History Museum Vienna .

Publications

  • Preliminary information on a cephalopod fauna from the Hallstatt limestone of the Feuerkogel on the Röthelstein near Aussee, which has the character of an intermediate and transitional fauna of the Carnic and Noric stages . In: Negotiations of the Imperial Geological Institute 1909, pp. 337–347 online (PDF; 742 kB)
  • Investigations into the microfauna of the Hallstatt limestone . In: Negotiations of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute 1913, pp. 225–234 online (PDF; 683 kB)
  • Brief notification of the evidence of the subbullatus zone on the Feuerkogel of the Röthelstein near Aussee . In: Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geologische Gesellschaft 8, 1915, pp. 246–247 online (PDF; 40 kB)

literature

  • Helmuth Zapfe : Index Palaeontologicorum Austriae (= Catalogus fossilium Austriae issue 15). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1971, p. 47 online (PDF; 352 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Heinrich, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian doctor and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1926
Place of death Bischofshofen