Christof Exner
Christof Exner Ritter von Erwarten (born March 20, 1915 in Innsbruck , † April 16, 2007 in Vienna ) was an Austrian geologist and university professor . He comes from an extensive, multi-talented family of scholars in Austria with several academy members .
Born on March 20, 1915 as the son of Felix Exner -Ewarten, university professor for meteorology and geophysics, and the gifted Baroness Christiana, born Popp von Böhmstetten , Christof and his three siblings became familiar with natural phenomena, landscape painting and the fine arts at an early age. In Vienna, where the father in 1917 as a university professor and as director of the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics was appointed, visited Christof the Humanistic Gymnasium in Döbling and studied from 1933 to 1939 at the University of Vienna the subjects geology and petrography . Here he received his doctorate in 1939 with a dissertation under Leopold Kober and married Gertha Brachtel in the same year.
In 1939/40 and from 1945 he was assistant at the Vienna Geological Institute and from 1950 to 1958 chief geologist at the Federal Geological Institute in Vienna, where he became known for thorough analyzes of Austrian crystalline and alpine tectonics.
In 1958 Christof Exner became an associate professor at the Geological Institute, which he headed with Eberhard Clar , and in 1964 a full professor . He wrote about 230 publications, in particular on the geology of the Tauern window , and numerous geological maps with accompanying explanations.
Exner belonged to several international associations, was an honorary member of the Austrian Geological Society and holder of the Eduard-Suess commemorative coin . He was buried at the Heiligenstädter Friedhof in Vienna.
Web links and sources
- Literature by and about Christof Exner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Obituary for Prof. Exner, Geological Society 2007
- Christof Exner: Rastenberger Granittektonik (Southern Bohemian Massif) , GBA Vienna 1968 (PDF; 3.3 MB)
- Wolfgang Frank: Prof. Christof Exner 1915-2007 (PDF; 705 kB)
- Helmut Hölder, Brief History of Geology . Springer-Verlag 1989
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christopf Exner grave site , Vienna, Heiligenstädter Friedhof, Part A, Group 2, No. 5.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Exner, Christof |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | innsbruck |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 16, 2007 |
| Place of death | Vienna |