Ernst Reichl
Ernst Rudolf Reichl (born August 19, 1926 in Linz ; † September 11, 1996 there ) was an Austrian chemist, computer scientist and entomologist. He was a university professor at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz and its rector from 1981 to 1983 .
Life
After graduating from high school on Khevenhüllerstraße in Linz, Reichl studied chemistry at the University of Vienna from 1946 . He was assistant in 1952 at the Institute of Chemistry of the University of Agricultural Sciences and a PhD in 1955 there to the Dr. phil.
After graduating, he worked as a food chemist for a private company in Linz. He came into contact with computers , first at the nitrogen works (later Chemie Linz ). He passed an entrance test at IBM brilliantly, but was not hired due to the age limit of 35 years at the time. On his own he paid for a programming course at a computer company in Germany. After completing the two-week course, he was immediately hired as an employee and returned as the Austrian managing director of the Austrian subsidiary he was to set up. Not economically successful, the company was closed after just over a year in 1964.
Until then, however, Reichl had given IBM so much competition that he received an offer from the US company immediately after the termination. In this position he was involved in the installation of the first computer system at the newly founded University of Social and Economic Sciences (today Johannes Kepler University ). He was soon giving lectures at the college. In 1973 he was finally appointed university professor for information systems and industrial data processing . From 1981–83 he was rector of the university.
From 1982 Reichl set up the institute for bioinformatics based in the biology center of the Upper Austrian state museums .
Butterfly studies
Ernst Reichl's special passion was butterflies , with which he also dealt scientifically (especially with the family of the Zygaenidae ). He was a member of the entomological working group at the Upper Austrian State Museum and from 1966 to 1993 also its chairman. He was (co-) editor and author of a large number of publications in the field of butterfly studies.
In creating the zoological database ZOODAT (1972, today ZOBODAT ), he was able to combine professional and private interests.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ernst Reichl in the catalog of the German National Library
- o.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ernst Rudolf Reichl on ZOBODAT Comprehensive biography of Ernst Reichl.
- Ernst Reichl: Ernst Reichl tells about Ernst Reichl (1926–1996). Stapfia 1998, pp. 9-22, PDF (1.6 MB) on ZOBODAT
- Josef Gusenleitner: Obituary for Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. Dr. hc Ernst Rudolf Reichl. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Vol. 142, Linz 1997, pp. 447–453, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at (with a directory of Reichl's writings)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reichl, Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reichl, Ernst Rudolf (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian chemist, computer scientist and butterfly scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 19, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Linz |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 11, 1996 |
| Place of death | Linz |