Moriz Hoernes (geologist)

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Moritz Hoernes (1815–1868), lithograph by Adolf Dauthage , 1869

Moriz Hoernes , also Moriz Hörnes or Moritz Hörnes (born July 14, 1815 in Vienna , † November 4, 1868 in Vienna), was an Austrian geologist and paleontologist.

Life

Moriz Hoernes, whose parents died early, worked as an accounting clerk from 1833. On the side, he studied natural sciences at the University of Vienna and was employed in the Imperial and Royal Cabinet of Minerals in the Vienna Hofburg in 1837 , as he had already done the work as a temporary worker and was therefore familiar. In 1841 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. In 1856 he was promoted to custodian of the cabinet. Together with Paul Partsch, he re-inventoried the collection.

Hoernes was one of the founders of the Society of Friends of Natural Science Members of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna , initiated by Franz von Hauer . In 1856 he became a member of the Leopoldina .

Hoernes was the father of the prehistorian Moriz Hoernes (29 January 1852–10 July 1917) and the geologist Rudolf Hoernes .

plant

The division of a section of the Cenozoic into the Paleogene and the Neogene goes back to Moriz Hoernes. When studying fossil mollusks from the Vienna Basin, he noticed the similarity of the mussels from the sediments of the Miocene and the Pliocene , which, however, differed significantly from the mussels of the older layers. He called the younger period Neogen, the older Paleogen.

Honors

Grave of Moriz Hoernes in the Vienna Central Cemetery

The mineral Hörnesite , discovered and described by Gustav Adolf Kenngott and Wilhelm von Haidinger in 1860 , was named after Hoernes. In 1876 in Vienna- Landstrasse (3rd district) not far from the then Imperial and Royal Geological Institute in Rasumofskygasse, the Hörnesgasse branching off from this was named after Moriz Hoernes.

On March 5, 1909, Hoernes' remains were transferred from their original place of burial to an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 0, Row 1, No. 47). It is located near the 2nd gate, the main gate of the cemetery, on the wall facing Simmeringer Hauptstrasse. His son Moriz the Younger, who died in 1917, was buried in the same grave in 1919 .

Fonts

  • Clear representation of Mohs' mineral system , 1847
  • 7. Report on visiting several sites of tertiary petrefacts in the Vienna Basin . Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute 001, 1850, pp. 662–679 online (PDF; 1.7 MB)
  • About the Faluns in the southwest of France by Mr. Joseph Delbos . Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute 001, 1850, pp. 587–598 online (PDF; 1.2 MB)
  • About some new gastropods from the eastern Alps . Denkschr.Akad.Wiss.Wien 10_2, 1855, pp. 173–178 online (PDF; 1.4 MB)
  • About the gastropods and acephalas of the Hallstatt strata . Denkschr.Akad.Wiss.Wien 9_2, 1855, pp. 33–56 online (PDF; 2.6 MB)
  • The fossil mollusks of the tertiary basin of Vienna , 1856 (Volume 1) and 1871 (Volume 2 completed by August Emanuel von Reuss .)
  • About gastropods from the Triassic Alps . Denkschr.Akad.Wiss.Wien 12_2, 1856, pp. 21–34 online (PDF; 1.8 MB)
  • About the meteor fall near Kabu, southwest of Debreczin, on April 15, 1857 . Meeting reports of the Academy of Sciences, Mathematical and Natural Science Class 31, 1858, pp. 347–350 online (PDF; 465 kB)
  • About the meteor fall near Ohaba in the Blasendorfer district in Transylvania, in the night between October 10th and 11th, 1857 . Session reports of the Academy of Sciences, Mathematical and Natural Science Class 31, 1858, pp. 79–84 online (PDF; 555 kB)
  • The fossil mollusks of the tertiary basin of Vienna . Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute 014, 1864, pp. 509–514 online (PDF; 627 kB)

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ member entry of Maurice Hoernes at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed October 19, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Hear it, Moriz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hörnes, Moriz; Hörnes, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1868
Place of death Vienna