Franz Toula

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Franz Toula

Franz Toula , also Franz Edler von Toula , (born December 20, 1845 in Vienna ; † January 3, 1920 ibid) was an Austrian paleontologist and geologist .

Life

Toula attended the Schottenfelder Realschule and studied geology and paleontology at the Technical University of Vienna under Ferdinand von Hochstetter , whose assistant he became in 1869. In 1872 he became a teacher (in Austria professor) for natural history and geography at the secondary school in Gumpendorf . In 1877, after completing his habilitation, he became a private lecturer and in 1880 as an associate professor and from 1884 as professor of geology and mineralogy at the Vienna University of Technology, successor to Hochstetter, who took over the management of the Natural History Museum in 1880. In 1893/94 he was rector. In 1917 he retired. He was a councilor .

He initially dealt with the processing of collections from Spitzbergen , East Greenland and Novaya Zemlya , but also wrote about geology for Viennese daily newspapers (for example from an Ural expedition in 1872/73 or from Vesuvius) and gave lectures at the Vienna Association for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge, whose vice president he became in 1886. In 1888 he became a member of the Leopoldina .

From the 1870s onwards he conducted geological research on the Western Balkans and Bulgaria on behalf of the Academy of Sciences (as did Melchior Neumayr in Greece ). Further research trips to the Balkans followed in 1880, 1884 and 1890. In addition, he carried out research in the Crimea in 1888 , in the Dobruja in 1892 , in the Bukovina in 1893, in 1895 on the Bosporus and in Asia Minor and in Romania in 1896/97. With Theodor Fuchs and others he founded the Natural Science Orient Association in Vienna. Another focus was the geology and palaeontology of the area around Vienna, where he dealt with invertebrates (ammonites, also micropaleontology of deep boreholes in the Vienna Basin) and vertebrates (finds from the Tertiary from Austria) and was a skilled taxidermist.

August Rosiwal was one of his assistants .

Fonts

Memorial plaque for Franz von Toula in the courtyard of the TU Vienna
  • A geological journey to Asia Minor (Bosporus and south coast of the Marmara Sea), Contributions to Austria-Hungary paleontology, Volume 12, Issue 1, 1898, digitized
  • Geological investigations in the Eastern Balkans and in the adjacent areas, Vienna, 1890, digitized
  • Textbook of Geology, Vienna: Hölder 1900 (text and atlas volume), 2nd edition 1906, 3rd edition 1918
  • The coal, its properties, occurrence, origin and economic significance, 1888
  • The deep borehole to a depth of 600 m in the area of ​​the chemical products factory, namely the Holzverkohlungs-Industrie-Aktien-Gesellschaft in Liesing near Vienna. In: Nova Acta. Treatises of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists . Volume C No. 3. Hall 1914.

He also edited the new editions of the guidelines for mineralogy and geology for the upper classes of the Austrian secondary schools by Hochstetter and Anton Bisching .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member entry by Franz von Toula at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 18, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Toula, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Toula, Franz Edler von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian paleontologist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1920
Place of death Vienna