Otto Hinterhuber

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Otto Hinterhuber (born November 28, 1839 in Mondsee , † December 29, 1929 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian upper mountain ridge and mine director.

Hinterhuber was the son of the pharmacist and botanist Rudolph Hinterhuber (1802-1892). Hinterhuber initially worked as a mountain manager in the coal mines of the Klein company near Bersaska before he was appointed mine director in Salzburg. After his retirement he was a lay judge in the field of mining for Salzburg for several years.

He was interested in geology and described from the Gosau layers dating fossils . He was also a collector during his professional activity in mining. Especially in the area of cephalopod fossils, he was able to provide valuable findings for science. In the area of ​​what is now southern central Slovakia, he carried out a geological survey which he presented in 1866.

Publications

  • The western sheet of the geological overview map of Moravia and Silesia . In: Yearbook of the Imperial-Royal Geological Reichsanstalt 15, 1865, pp. 107-108.
  • Geological map of the surroundings of Losoncz, Szokal and Ludany . In: Yearbook of the Imperial-Royal Geological Reichsanstalt 16, 1866, pp. 58–59.
  • New Spatheisenstein deposit near Swatoslau NW. from Brno . In: Jahrbuch der Kaiserlich-Königliche Geologische Reichsanstalt 15, 1865, pp. 108-109.
  • Petrefacts of the Gosau formations from the Strobl-Weißenbachthale near St. Wolfgang . In: Yearbook of the Kaiserlich-Königliche Geologische Reichsanstalt 1866, pp. 16-17.
  • The coal deposit in the Kladno area . In: Yearbook of the Kaiserlich-Königliche Geologische Reichsanstalt 16, 1866, pp. 152–158.
  • Mining in Salzburg 1867-1892 , Festschrift of the Technical Club, 1893

literature

  • Helmuth Zapfe : Index Palaeontologicorum Austriae (= Catalogus fossilium Austriae issue 15). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1971, p. 48 online (PDF; 378 kB)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Feichtlbauer: Salzburg's High German Literature from 1850-1917, in the context of German literary development. In: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde 57 (1917), pp. 65–233; here: p. 73.
  2. ↑ u. a. in: Ordinance sheet of the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Justice , year 1913, p. 218.
  3. ^ Geological map of the surroundings of Losoncz, Szokal and Ludany . In: Jahrbuch der Geologische Reichsanstalt 16, (1866), pp. 58–59.
personal data
SURNAME Hinterhuber, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian upper mountain ridge and mine director
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Mondsee
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1929
Place of death Salzburg