Georg Geyer (geologist)

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Georg Geyer (born February 20, 1857 in Auhof Castle in Blindenmarkt , † February 25, 1936 in Vienna ) was an Austrian geologist and paleontologist.

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Georg Geyer's father was the chief forester for Prince Starhemberg . He studied geology and paleontology at the TH Graz , the Bergakademie Leoben and the University of Vienna , but did not graduate. From 1882 he was initially a volunteer at the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute in Vienna, where he was appointed an intern in 1887, an adjunct in 1892 and chief geologist in 1900. From 1919 to 1923 he was the director of the Geological State Institute of Austria.

Geyer was a good mountaineer and mapped in the Styrian , Carnic Alps, the Tyrolean Alps and the Upper Austrian Alps (including Weyer (Upper Austria) ) and in the adjacent southern Alps in Italy. He was councilor and from 1914 a corresponding and from 1921 a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . He is known for exploring the Dead Mountains , about which he published a monograph.

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  • The Dead Mountains . 1878.
  • About the liasic brachiopods of Hierlatz near Hallstatt . 1889.

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SURNAME Geyer, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Auhof Castle
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1936
Place of death Vienna