Franz Wähner

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Franz Wähner (born March 23, 1856 in Goldenhöhe , Bohemia , † April 4, 1932 in Prague ) was an Austrian geologist and paleontologist.

life and work

Franz Wähner studied geology at the University of Vienna and was an assistant at the University's Geological Institute from 1882 to 1885. Then he was at the Natural History Court Museum in Vienna, most recently as curator. In 1885 he completed his habilitation in Vienna. In 1901 he became professor of geology and mineralogy at the German Technical University in Prague and in 1910, as the successor to Gustav Karl Laube, full professor of geology and paleontology at the German University in Prague ( Karl Ferdinand University ), of which he was rector in 1920/21 . In 1926 he retired.

His main focus was the northern limestone Alps. He wrote a monograph on the ammonites of the lower Lias of the Eastern Alps. From 1903 his monograph on the geology of the Sonnwendgebirge in North Tyrol appeared, which he furnished with his own photographs and which also demonstrated extensive thrusts in the Eastern Alps. He also dealt with the Paleozoic around Prague and the tectonics and longitudinal faults in the Central Bohemian Fold Mountains. He was a close observer, but also very self-critical, which meant that his main works remained unfinished.

He toured Persia and reported on the Zagreb (Agram) earthquake of 1880.

In 1899 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Wähner died in Prague in 1932. In 1959 he was buried in the family grave at the Vienna Central Cemetery (Gate 2, Group 17B, Row G1, No. 2). The right to use the grave was valid until October 31, 2015.

  • Panorama of the north faces of the Sonnwendgebirge by Franz Wähner in 1891
  • Panorama of the north faces of the Sonnwendgebirge.jpg

Fonts

Grave of Franz Wähner at the Vienna Central Cemetery (January 2020)
  • Contributions to the knowledge of the deeper zones of the lower Lias in the northeastern Limestone Alps, contributions to the palaeontology and geology of Austria-Hungary and the Orient, 8 parts, 1882 to 1898 (291 pages, 66 plates)
  • For the heteropic differentiation of the alpine lias, negotiations Geolog. Reichsanstalt Vienna 1886
  • From the primeval times of our Limestone Alps, magazine of the German and Austrian Alpine Association, Volume 22, 1891
  • Coral reefs and deep sea deposits in the Alps, association for the dissemination of natural science. Knowledge in Vienna, Volume 32, 1892
  • Geological images of the Salzach, association for the dissemination of natural science. Knowledge in Vienna, Volume 34, 1894
  • The Sonnwendgebirge in the Lower Inn Valley. A type of alpine mountain building, Vienna: Deuticke 1903
  • To assess the construction of the Central Bohemian Folded Mountains, Geolog. Reichsanstalt Vienna, Volume 66, 1916
  • To assess the longitudinal faults in the Central Bohemian Fold Mountains, New Yearbook Mineralogie, Geologie, Paläontologie, 1921
  • The Agram earthquake on November 9, 1880, reports from the session of the Vienna Academy of Sciences, Volume 88, 1883

literature

Web links

Commons : Franz Wähner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Franz Wähner
  2. ↑ Search for the deceased by the Vienna cemeteries , accessed on February 25, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Wähner, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Golden height
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1932
Place of death Prague