Fritz von Benesch

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Fritz von Benesch (born September 29, 1894 in Graz , † August 31 or September 1, 1916 missing in Russia ) was an Austrian geology student .

Von Benesch studied geology and palaeontology from 1912 to 1914, first at the University of Graz , then at the University of Vienna . He described a land mollusc fauna from the Miocene . Before completing his studies, Benesch was drafted during the First World War in 1914 and fell in 1916.

Publications

  • About a new exposure in the tertiary basin of Rein, Styria . In: Negotiations of the Geological Reichsanstalt 1913, pp. 342–351, Vienna 1913 online (PDF; 692 kB)
  • The Mesozoic Islands on Possruck (Central Styria) . In: Mitteilungen der Geologische Gesellschaft in Wien 7, pp. 173–194, 1914 online (PDF; 841 kB)
  • Contributions to the geology of the eastern Bacher Mountains (southern Styria) . In: Mitteilungen der Geologische Gesellschaft in Wien 10, 1917, pp. 161–183, 1917 online (PDF; 952 kB)

literature

  • Helmuth Zapfe : Index Palaeontologicorum Austriae (= Catalogus fossilium Austriae issue 15). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1971, p. 15 ( PDF; 328 kB ).
personal data
SURNAME Benesch, Fritz von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH after August 30, 1916
Place of death Russia