Hans Höfer from Heimhalt

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Höfer von Heimhalt
State examination certificate for the mining industry according to the k. and k. Bergakademie zu Leoben with the signature of Hans Höfer as chairman of the examination committee

Hans Höfer von Heimhalt (born May 17, 1843 in Elbogen , † February 9, 1924 in Vienna ) was an Austrian mining engineer. He was a pioneer in oil drilling technology and an expert in drinking water supply.

Life

Born in Elbogen No. 135 as the son of the citizen and butcher Johann Josephus Höfer (1802-1852) and Anna Creszenzia, née. Schmidt (1807-1870) was born to Hans (as he was later called) Höfer and was baptized on May 18, 1843 under the name of Johann Nepomuk Höfer.

From 1860 Höfer studied at the Montanistische Hochschule Leoben . He became a member of the Corps Tauriscia Leoben. He joined the state mining service in 1864 and was first in the gold mine in the village of Nagyág in Hunyad County in Transylvania . In 1865 he examined the valley of the Jiu (river) . As a result, coal mining began in Petroșani . He then went to the silver mine in Březové Hory in Central Bohemia . In 1867/68 he mapped the High Tatras and the area up to the town of Prešov ( Eperjes ) for the Imperial Geological Institute in Vienna . He managed the first ascent of the Gerlsdorf peak . From 1869 he was director and professor of the newly founded mining school in Klagenfurt , then at the Bergakademie Příbram founded in 1849 (today the mining museum) and from 1881 to 1911 professor at the Montanlehranstalt (from 1904 Montanistische Hochschule) in Leoben, where Karl August Redlich worked from 1895–1897 Was assistant. From 1887 to 1889 he was director of the Montanlehranstalt.

In 1872 he participated as a geologist in Johann Nepomuk Wilczek's North Pole expedition . He was able to study Spitzbergen (archipelago) , the Russian double island of Novaya Zemlya and northeastern Russia. During his visit to the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia , he had the opportunity to tour the mining areas and oil reserves there. On the basis of his observations, he established the theory of the anticline , which is recognized worldwide . With his report The Petroleum Industry of North America of 1877, in which he pointed out the importance of the water blocking of the boreholes and the advantages of the Canadian drilling method (see William Henry McGarvey ), he contributed to the rapid development of the Galician oil industry. Later he traveled to almost all European oil regions as a petroleum expert. With his book Das Erdöl und seine Relatives , he introduced the term “petroleum” in 1913 as a name for all liquid, organic, combustible natural products that come from the earth. In German usage, crude oil prevailed over the previously common terms Steinöl, Bergöl or Felsenöl as literal translations of the term Petroleum (Petro = stone, Oleum = Oil). In 1895, at the age of 52, he became a member of the German-Academic Reading Club in Leoben.

His son Hudo Höfer-Heimalt, mining inspector in Silesian Ostrau, wrote down his father's stories about Leoben in 1932. In April 1932 they appeared in the Freiberg Montanenzeitung. The Society for Corps Student History Research published an imprint in 1975.

Elevation of rank

In Elbogen's baptism entry there is the following note about Höfer's increase in status:

'Authorization from the Prague Consistory, April 27, 1912, No. 5564: According to the KK Lieutenancy in Prague of April 10, 1912 ZI / A.847, the diploma dated February 6, 1911, signed here as a child, Johann Nep. Höfer, now KK Hofrat in Leoben, has been bestowed the nobility and the leadership of the word of honor "noble" and the predicate "home". Annotated June 17, 1912, Gros, Dechant; '

Honors

Publications

  • Petroleum and its relatives . 1888.
  • Instructions for determining the families and genera of the ammonites and their subsidiary forms . 1892.
  • On the development of anticlinal theory (of oil and gas accumulation) . In: Economic Geology . July 1910, v. 5, no. 5, p. 492-493; doi : 10.2113 / gsecongeo.5.5.492 .
  • Groundwater and springs . 1912.
  • Instructions for geological observation, mapping and profiling . 1915.
  • The Carinthian earthquake and its shock ... 1923.
  • with Carl Engler (Hrsg.): Das Erdöl - his physics, chemistry, geology, technology and his business , 6 vols., reprint Nabu Press 2011, ISBN 978-1248023860 .

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ÖBL, vol. 2. 351 (PDF; 191 kB), ÖBL, vol. 2. 352 (PDF; 198 kB)
  2. ↑ Elbogen baptismal register 1841 - 1853, fol. 40; Godparents: Engelbert Höring, City Tower; Anna Häring, his wife; Midwife: Magdalena Schönecker, master kit maker (widow?), Certified, from here;
  3. ↑ Nagyag at zeno.org
  4. ↑ Szekerembe at zeno.org
  5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.muzeum-pribram.cz
  6. ↑ ÖBL, Vol. 9 on Redlich
  7. ↑ The directors, rectors and deans of the Montanuniversität ( Memento of the original from August 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved August 22, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.unileoben.ac.at
  8. ↑ The formation of the oil deposits (PDF; 433 kB)
  9. ↑ history of oil in chemgapedia.de
  10. ↑ Hudo Höfer-Heimalt: Corp life in Leoben 70 years ago . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corps Student History Research, Vol. 20 (1975), pp. 160-163.
  11. ↑ Elbogen baptismal register 1841 - 1853, fol. 40;
personal data
SURNAME Höfer von Heimhalt, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mining engineer
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Loket
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1924
Place of death Vienna