Mathias Auinger
Mathias Auinger (born May 8, 1810 in Lindach , † October 11, 1890 in Vienna ) was an Austrian paleontologist .
Auinger was a soldier and castle gendarme. In 1849 “Hofhausknecht im k. & k. Hof-Mineralien-Cabinet ”and 1859 overseer. From 1871 to 1882 he was a civil servant. He worked with Moritz Hoernes , with whom he wrote The Fossil Mollusks of the Tertiary Basin of Vienna , and Rudolf Hoernes , with whom he described mollusks from the Tertiary .
Publications
- with Rudolf Hoernes: The gastropods of the marine deposits of the 1st and 2nd Mediterranean stages in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy . In: Treatises of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute 12, 1879–1891
literature
- Rudolf Hoernes : In memory of Mathias Auinger. In: Annalen des kk Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums 5, 1890, pp. 103-106 ( digitized version ).
- D. Stur , In: Negotiations of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute 1890, pp. 257-258.
- Werner Quenstedt : Auinger, Mathias. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 455 ( digitized version ).
- Helmuth Zapfe : Index Palaeontologicorum Austriae (= Catalogus fossilium Austriae issue 15). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1971, pp. 12–13 online (PDF; 724 kB)
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| SURNAME | Auinger, Mathias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1810 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lindach (municipality of Laakirchen) |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 11, 1890 |
| Place of death | Vienna |