Franz Xaver Schaffer

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Franz Xaver Schaffer (born April 12, 1876 in Mährisch-Schönberg , † April 17, 1953 in Vienna ) was an Austrian geologist and paleontologist.

Life

Schaffer was the son of a railroad director and received his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1899 . From 1900 to 1936 he worked at the Natural History Museum Vienna . He was a university professor in Vienna and a councilor. He was buried at the Döblinger Friedhof .

He dealt in particular with the geology of the Vienna Basin and the Tertiary and is known for textbooks on geology and books on the geology of the area around Vienna.

Fonts

  • Geology of Vienna, Vienna: Lechner, 1904–1906
  • Geological guide for excursions in the inner alpine basin in the immediate vicinity of Vienna, Borntraeger, Geological Guide Collection , 3 volumes, 1907, 1908, 1913
  • Textbook of Geology, 3 volumes, Leipzig, Vienna: Deuticke, 2nd and 3rd edition Volume 1 (General Geology), 1922, Volume 2 (Principles of Historical Geology), 1924, Volume 3, 1941 (Regional Geology)
  • Basics of general geology, Leipzig, Vienna: Deuticke 1916
  • Geology, history and construction of the area around Vienna, Vienna: Deuticke 1927
  • with Rudolf Grill , F. Heritsch, O. Kühn, R. Janoschek, R. Schwinner, E. Spengler, L. Waldmann, A. Winkler-Hermaden: Geologie von Österreich, 2nd edition, Vienna, Deuticke 1951 (Schaffer was editor )
  • Cilia, A. Petermann's messages from Justus Perthes' Geographischer Anstalt, supplementary booklet, Gotha: Perthes 1903

literature

  • Friedrich Trauth: Franz Xaver Schaffer. In: Communications from the Geological Society Vienna 45 (1954)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Schaffer grave site , Vienna, Döblinger Friedhof, Group 11, Row 3, No. 6.
personal data
SURNAME Schaffer, Franz Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Moravian Schönberg
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1953
Place of death Vienna