Ernst Kittl

Ernst Kittl (born December 2, 1854 in Vienna ; † May 1, 1913 there ) was an Austrian paleontologist and geologist .

Life

Kittl studied from 1872 at the TH Vienna and from 1876 to 1878 at the University of Vienna geology and paleontology and was from 1878 to 1882 assistant of Ferdinand von Hochstetter and Franz Toula at the Technical University of Vienna. From 1882 he was involved in the Court Minerals Cabinet and significantly involved in its transfer and reorganization in the Natural History Museum Vienna (then Court Museum), which opened in 1889. He was custodian adjunct from 1886 and custodian from 1893 and took over the geological-paleontological department in 1904 (from 1912 as director). In 1901 he completed his habilitation there and became a private lecturer and in 1907 an associate professor.

He wrote a geological guide to the Salzkammergut and, as a palaeontologist, first dealt with the Tertiary ( Miocene ), then with the Alpine Triassic (especially gastropods ). He dealt with both invertebrate and vertebrate paleontology. Kittl led the excavations in the Vypustek Cave in Moravia for the Academy of Sciences in Vienna. He also wrote expert reports in practical geology (quarries, boreholes, brown coal, clay pits, hydrology).

He was president of the Natural Science Association of the TH Vienna and the Natural Science Orient Association in Vienna and published the announcements of the Natural History Section of the Austrian Tourist Club, of which he was President from 1900 to 1913. In this context he often led geological excursions in the vicinity of Vienna and gave lectures in front of the Urania in Vienna.

Initial descriptions

• Superfamily Halobioidea KITTL 1912

Fonts

• About the miocene pteropods of Austria-Hungary, Annalen kk Naturhist. Hofmuseum, 1, 1886, 47–74
• The gastropods of the layers of St. Cassian of the Southern Alpine Triassic, Annals of the KK Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum, part 1: Volume 6, Issue 2, 1891, pp. 166 - 262, 7 plates, 10 fig., Part 2: Volume 7, 1892 , Book 1 and 2, pp. 98-160, 5 plates, part 3: Volume 9, 1894, pp. 162-277, 9 plates, Alfred Hölder, Vienna, Volume 1 , Volume 2 , Volume 3
• The triadic gastropods of the Marmolada and related sites in the white reef limestone of South Tyrol. Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute Volume XLIV, 1894, Issue 1, pp. 99 - 182, plates I - VI, Verlag der kk Geologische Reichsanstalt, commissioned by R. Lechner (W. Müller), Vienna
• The gastropods of the Esinokalke, together with a revision of the gastropods of the Marmolatakalke. Annals of the KK Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum, Volume 14, 1899, Issue 1 - 2, pp. 1 - 237, 18 plates, Alfred Hölder, Vienna
• Triassic gastropods of the Bakony forest. Results of the scientific exploration of Lake Balaton. Vol. 1. Part 1 (Paleontology), Volume 2 1900, pp. 1-57
• The cephalopods of the upper Werfen strata of Muć in Dalmatia as well as of other Dalmatian, Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Alpine locations. Treatises of the Kaiserlich-Königliche Geologische Reichsanstalt, Volume 20, Issue 1, Verlag der KK Geologische Reichsanstalt, Vienna 1903
• Salzkammergut, guide for the excursions of the 9th boarding school. Geological Congress Vienna 1903
• Geology of the Sarajevo area. Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute, Volume 53, 1904, Issue 4, pp. 515 - 748, Plates XXI - XXIII, 1 map, Verlag der kk Geologische Reichsanstalt, commissioned by R. Lechner (W. Müller), Vienna
• The Triassic fossils from Heureka Sound. Report of the Second Norwegian Arctic expedition in the “Fram” 1898 - 1902, II, 7, 1 - 44, 3 plates, Kristiania 1907
• Contributions to the knowledge of the triad formations of the northeast Dobrudscha, memoranda of Vienna, Math.-Naturwiss. Class, Volume 81, 1908, pp. 447-532.
• Materials for a monograph of the Halobiidae and Monotidae of the Triassic, results of the scientific exploration of Lake Balaton. Vol. 1. Part 1 (Paleontology), Volume 2 1912, pp. 1–229

literature

• Kittl Ernst. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1965, p. 359 f. (Direct links on p. 359 , p. 360 ).