Franz von Hauer (geologist)

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Franz von Hauer, lithograph by Adolf Dauthage , 1859
Grave of Franz von Hauer

Franz Ritter von Hauer (born January 30, 1822 in Vienna ; † March 20, 1899 there ) was an Austrian geologist and paleontologist .

Life

Franz von Hauer was a son of the Privy Councilor Joseph von Hauer , his brothers were the chemist Karl and the Montanist Julius . He studied from 1839 to 1843 at the Bergakademie Schemnitz , in 1846 he became assistant to Wilhelm Ritter von Haidinger at the Mineralogical Museum in Vienna. In 1856 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . From 1865 he was a corresponding member of the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome. In the same year he also succeeded Ferdinand von Hochstetter as director (today director general) of the Imperial and Royal Natural History Court Museum . Hauer became director of the k. k. geological imperial institute in Vienna and made geological maps of Austria and Transylvania .

In 1866 he was elected a corresponding member and in 1886 an external member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Since 1874 he was a member of the American Philosophical Society . In 1881 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1882 he was awarded the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London . In 1886 he founded the annals of the Imperial and Royal Natural History Court Museum.

Hauer was buried in a grave of honor in Vienna's central cemetery . In 1917 the Franz-Hauer-Gasse in Vienna- Landstrasse (3rd district) was named after him. After it was renamed (now: Fritz-Henkel-Gasse ), the small square in front of the Federal Geological Institute was given the name Franz-Hauer-Platz in 2006, also in Vienna-Landstrasse .

The mineral hauerite (MnS 2 ) is named after him.

Fonts

Title page of the Geology of Transylvania by Hauer and Stache (1863)
  • Contributions on the paleontolography of Austria (1858-1859)
  • with Guido Stache : Geology of Transylvania. After the photographs of the Imperial Geological Institute and literary aids. Vienna: Wilhelm Braumüller, 1863. Digitized
  • The geology and its application to the knowledge of the soil composition of the Austrian-Hungarians. Monarchy (1875; 2nd ed. 1878).
  • The cephalopods of the Bosnian shell limestone from Han Bulog near Sarajevo. In: Memoranda of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, mathematical and natural science class 1888, 54, 8 plates, Vienna 1887, pages 1–50
  • Geological map of Austria-Hungary with Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro (1896)

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member entry by Franz Ritter von Hauer at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 6, 2016.
  2. ^ Member entry by Franz Ritter von Hauer (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 6, 2016.
  3. ↑ Member History: Franz von Hauer. American Philosophical Society, accessed September 24, 2018 .
  4. ^ Members of the previous academies. Franz Ritter von Hauer. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on April 2, 2015 .


personal data
SURNAME Hauer, Franz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hauer, Franz Ritter von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1899
Place of death Vienna