Egbert Wilhelm von Hochstetter

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Egbert Wilhelm von Hochstetter (born March 31, 1868 in Vienna ; † August 2, 1906 in Opava ) was an Austrian mining engineer.

Hochstetter was a son of the geologist Ferdinand von Hochstetter . He received his PhD in 1896 at the University of Vienna Dr. phil. and graduated in 1899 at the Bergakademie Leoben as a qualified mining engineer. He worked as a mining engineer in the Ostrau-Karwiner coal field. He described the fossil cephalopods Belemnites eduardi and Stephanoceras tennicostatum .

Publications

  • The cliff of St. Veit near Vienna . In: Yearbook of the Geological Reichsanstalt , 47, 1897, pp. 95–156 online (PDF; 5.7 MB)

literature

  • Helmuth Zapfe : Index Palaeontologicorum Austriae (= Catalogus fossilium Austriae issue 15). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1971, p. 48 ( online ; PDF; 378 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Hochstetter, Egbert Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hochstetter, Egbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mining engineer
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 1906
Place of death Troppau