Franz Mühlhofer

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Franz Mühlhofer (born January 22, 1881 in Neunkirchen , † February 16, 1955 in Vienna ) was an Austrian cave research pioneer.

Life

Franz Mühlhofer dedicated himself to the military career, which brought him to Trieste as a young lieutenant, where he got in touch with the coastal cave explorers under Andreas Perko and helped found the "Hades" association. During this time, research is carried out in the Adelsberg Cave , the giant cave near Trieste and research trips in the underground Timoval .

In 1911/12 Mühlhofer took part in Otto Artbauer's Sahara expedition , where he devoted himself in particular to the research of Cyrenaica and its old irrigation systems.

During the First World War , Mühlhofer was taken prisoner by the Russians. After his return he was accepted as a major in the newly created armed forces. Due to the loss of the classic karst areas, he initially chose Lower Austria as a research area, in particular the Merkenstein cave near Bad Vöslau , which he excavated in an exemplary manner in fifteen years of activity.

Together with Rudolf Saar and others he founded the Society for Speleology in Vienna and Lower Austria and brought about the merger of all speleological associations in Austria and Germany in the Main Association of German and Austrian Speleologists , of which he became the first president.

With Hautmann, Mühlhofer founded the local history museum of Wiener Neustadt and later that of Hainburg . In 1931 the Federal Monuments Office appointed him curator for the Baden district.

Mühlhofer has published the results of his research in numerous publications.

Mühlhofer's extensive prehistoric and paleontological collections are in the Wiener Neustädter Museum, the Lower Austrian State Museum and the Natural History Museum in Vienna.

source

  • Rudolf Saar: Franz Mühlhofer + , communications from the cave commission, 1953 (2), 1955

Publications

  • The Putative Timova Closure, Globus, Volume XCII, No. 1, 1907, pp. 12-15.
  • Contributions to the knowledge of Cyrenaica. Speleological Monographs, Vol. IV, Vienna 1923
  • Prehistoric investigations at Warmbad Villach, Wiener Prehistorische Zeitschrift, 12th year 1925, pp. 116-131.
  • The early Bronze Age row grave field near Hainburg-Teichtal. Self-rel. d. Anthrop. Ges.

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personal data
SURNAME Mühlhofer, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian speleology pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Neunkirchen
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1955
Place of death Vienna