Gustava Kahler

Gustava Kahler , née Gustava Aigner (born April 29, 1906 in Salzburg , † March 22, 1987 in St. Veit an der Glan ) was an Austrian geologist and paleontologist .

Aigner was the daughter of a lawyer and went to the girls' reform high school in Salzburg. She studied geology and related subjects at the University of Graz , where she passed the teaching examination in geography and natural history in 1927 and in 1929 with Franz Heritsch as a Dr. phil. Her doctorate was in palaeontology ( Die Productiden des Karbons von Nötsch in the Gailtal ). After Marta Cornelius-Furlani, she was only the second woman to study geology in Austria.

She had been married to the geologist Franz Kahler since 1935 , with whom she had three daughters and with whom she also published a lot, especially about fusulinides .

Her colleague Ida Peltzmann named two species after her in recognition of the fact that Kahler found the first graptolites in the northern Grauwackenzone .

Publications (selection)

• Silurian fossils from the Grauwackenzone near Fieberbrunn, Tyrol. In: Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute. 1930, pp. 222-224 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
• with Franz Heritsch : Cephalopods from the Lower Carboniferous by Nötsch. In: Announcements Scientific Association for Styria. 1930, pp. 42–50 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ; relates to Nötsch im Gailtal ).
• The Isogramma genus in the carbon of the Southern Alps. Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Vienna 1931.
• A graptolite fauna from the greywacke zone of Fieberbrunn in Tyrol along with remarks about the greywacke zone of Dienten. Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Vienna 1931.

literature

• Helmuth Zapfe : Index Palaeontologicorum Austriae (= Catalogus fossilium Austriae. Issue 15). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1971, p. 10 ( PDF (330 kB) on ZOBODAT ).
• Helmut W. Flügel : Gustava Kahler-Aigner (1906–1987). In: Carinthia II. 177/97, ​​Klagenfurt 1987, pp. XIV-XVIII.