Franz Kahler

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Franz Kahler (born June 23, 1900 in Karolinenthal near Prague ; † August 6, 1995 in Sankt Veit an der Glan ) was an Austrian geologist.

Life

Kahler was the son of the later major general Franz Kahler and went to school in different parts of Austria-Hungary after his father was stationed . In 1917 he made in Klagenfurt a high school, then went to a commercial school in Klagenfurt and was 1920-1939 Bank official at Wiener Bankverein and the Creditanstalt-Bankverein in Klagenfurt. He was also interested in paleontology , worked as a volunteer at the State Museum of Carinthia from 1923 and, after establishing contacts with the geology professor in Graz , Franz Heritsch , began studying geology, paleontology and mineralogy in Graz with his support .

In 1939 he became a geologist when building the Reichsautobahn Villach and later he was the chief geologist for the Todt organization in the construction of railways in Northern Norway . In 1944 he completed his habilitation in Graz (geology of the Loiblpass tunnel).

After the Second World War he was again a bank employee for a short time and from 1949 curator for geology and mineralogy in the Carinthian State Museum, from 1952 as a museum councilor. He also had extensive work as a consulting geologist (for example in road and tunnel construction, mineral springs, hydraulic engineering, hydrogeology and stone, ore and coal deposits) and was in the Carinthia regional building department from 1959, and as a regional geologist from 1960.

In 1956 he became an honorary professor for technical geology at the University of Graz , which he remained until his retirement in 1965.

Even after that he was scientifically active. In micropalaeontology he devoted himself particularly to stratigraphy with the help of fusilinids (with the help of which he proposed a connection between the Carboniferous and Permian of the Alps and Russia) and he was involved in various geological mappings (Klagenfurt, Naßfeld - Gartnerkofel area in the Carnic Alps , Saualm ).

He was married to the geologist Gustava Aigner , who published with him and with whom he had three daughters. In 1961 he became a real councilor in the state service. From 1951 to 1978 he was President of the Carinthian Natural Science Association.

Honors

Fonts

  • Tertiary fish remains from the Lavant valley. In: The Karinthin . Episode 4: 59-60, Klagenfurt 1949.
  • as editor and co-author: The nature of Carinthia. Heyn, Klagenfurt 1975 (in it by Kahler Die Geologie Kärnten in Volume 1).
  • The natural healing resources of Carinthia. Office of the Carinthian State Government, Regional Planning in Carinthia, Volume 10, 1978.
  • Primeval world of Carinthia. An introduction to the geology of the country. In: Carinthia II . Volume 18, Klagenfurt 1955, pp. 1–107 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  • The Fusulinids, Catalogus Fossilium Austriae. Booklet II / b / 1, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1989, pp. 87–295.
  • Upper Carboniferous and Lower Carboniferous of the Carnic Alps. Your biostratigraphy with the help of the fusulinides. In: Carinthia II. Volume 42, Klagenfurt 1985, pp. 1-93.
  • Fusulinids from the Carboniferous and Permian of the Carnic Alps and Karawanken. In: Carinthia II. Volume 41, Klagenfurt 1983, pp. 1–107.

literature

  • Hans Sampl: Franz Kahler 1900–1995. In: Carinthia II. 186_106, Klagenfurt 1996, pp. 7-12 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ; obituary).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John W. Anthony, Richard A. Bideaux, Kenneth W. Bladh, Monte C. Nichols: Kahlerite , in: Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineralogical Society of America , 2001 ( PDF 63.8 kB )
personal data
SURNAME Kahler, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Karolinenthal
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1995
Place of death Sankt Veit an der Glan