Leonhard Angerer

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Leonhard Angerer (born February 28, 1861 in Kremsmünster , † May 28, 1934 in Linz ) was an Austrian Benedictine , teacher and naturalist.

After attending elementary school and the collegiate high school in Kremsmünster, Josef Angerer joined the Benedictine Abbey of Kremsmünster in 1883 and was given the religious name Leonhard. Angerer studied theology at St. Florian Monastery from 1883 to 1887 and was ordained a priest in 1887. He then studied at the University of Vienna , where he passed the teaching examination for natural history in 1891. From 1891 to 1934 he taught natural history at the Stiftsgymnasium of the Benedictines in Kremsmünster, initially as suppl. Professor, since 1895 as a real professor; from 1893 to 1902 he was also prefect of the Konvikt.

Angerer was the curator of the natural history collections of the Kremsmünster Abbey from 1902 to 1934. He was interested in the natural history of his homeland and worked in the fields of geology , palaeontologist , prehistory and botany . He carried out excavations in the Lettenmaier cave and wrote a thesis on the geology and prehistory of Kremsmünster, in which he also provides information on palaeontology. Angerer had been a correspondent for the Geological Reichsanstalt since 1912 .

Publications (selection)

  • Geology and prehistory of Kremsmünster . In: 60th program of the Benedictine high school in Kremsmünster for the school year 1910 . Kremsmünster 1910, pp. 29–115.
  • New finds of Neolithic stone tools from the area around Kremsmünster . In: Wiener Prähistorische Zeitschrift 10, 1923, pp. 37–38.

literature

  • Konstantin Werner: P. Leonhard Angerer . In: 84th program of the upper high school of the Benedictines in Kremsmünster for the school year 1934 , 1934, online on ZOBODAT
  • Altmann Kellner: Profession book of the Kremsmünster Monastery . Klagenfurt 1968, p. 491.
  • Helmuth Zapfe : Index Palaeontologicorum Austriae (= Catalogus fossilium Austriae issue 15). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1971, p. 11, PDF (382 kB) on ZOBODAT

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personal data
SURNAME Angerer, Leonhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Angerer, Josef (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Benedictine, teacher and naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Kremsmünster
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1934
Place of death Linz