Hans Wieseneder

Hans Wieseneder (born November 24, 1906 in Vienna , † February 16, 1993 ibid) was an Austrian geologist and petrograph .

Wieseneder received his doctorate in 1928 at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna (The Greifenstein sandstone and the loess deposits in the area of ​​the eastern Vienna Woods, their weathering and soil formation). Alfred Himmelbauer and Leopold Kölbl were among his teachers there . He then studied geology and petrography at the University of Vienna with his doctorate in 1931 (studies on the metamorphosis in the old crystalline of the eastern edge of the Alps). He was an assistant at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences until 1934 and in 1935 he went to the University of Munich (where his teacher Kölbl had changed to shortly before), where he completed his habilitation in 1936 (contributions to the knowledge of the East Alpine eclogites ). In 1941 he became curator of the Bavarian State Collection in Munich. After World War II, he worked as an oil geologist in industry. In 1955 he became a lecturer at the Montanistische Hochschule in Leoben and in 1957 he became professor for mineralogy and petrography at the University of Vienna.

Fonts

• with Hans Graul: Gravel analytical investigations in the Upper German Tertiary hill country, treatises of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Mathematical and Natural Science Department, NF, 46, 1939
• with Günther Frasl , Heinz G. Scharbert: Crystalline complexes in the southern parts of the Bohemian massif and in the eastern alps, International Geological Congress Prague, Session 23, 1968

literature

• Entry in Rudolf Vierhaus (editor), Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie, Saur / De Gruyter 2008