Bernhard Faber

Bernhard Faber (born October 25, 1862 in Bad Ischl , † June 7, 1925 in Hallstatt ) was an Austrian miner and fossil collector . He was considered the best expert on fossil sites in the Hallstatt area.

Faber worked with many contemporary paleontologists . His collection is now in the Hallstatt Museum . In particular, he collected fossils in the Hallstatt limestone on the Sommeraukogel of the Hallstatt salt mountain . In 1868 he exploited the second main site for Edmund von Mojsisovics there. It contained numerous occurrences of gastropod- rich lens with Discophyllites patens .

Gustav von Arthaber entrusted Faber with the search for individual petrified benches and nests in the summer of 1904 . Faber was able to track down a specimen of the rare species Hauerites rare-striatus Hau (which belongs to the order of the Ceratites (Ceratitida), early Mesozoic ammonites (Ammonoidea) within the class of cephalopods ), which the Paleontological Institute of the University of Vienna acquired.

literature

• Carl Diener : The fossil deposits in the Hallstätter Limestone of the Salzkammergut In: Session reports of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Math.-naturwiss. Class , Volume 135, 1926, pp. 78. 81. 85. 86 ( PDF )
• Helmuth Zapfe : Index Palaeontologicorum Austriae (= Catalogus fossilium Austriae issue 15). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1971, p. 28 online (PDF; 372 kB)