Theodor Fuchs (geologist)

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Theodor Fuchs (born September 15, 1842 in Eperies , Sáros county , † October 5, 1925 in Steinach am Brenner , Tyrol) was an Austrian geologist , paleontologist and museum curator .

Theodor Fuchs worked at the Mineralogical Court Cabinet and later at the Natural History Museum Vienna . He played a key role in setting up the geological-paleontological department. He explored the tertiary deposits of the Mediterranean and the Vienna Basin . Fuchs was a professor at the University of Vienna and a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Theodor Fuchs founded the Chattium in 1894 as the upper or latest chronostratigraphic stage of the Oligocene ( Paleogene ).

His estate is in the Archive for the History of Science at the Natural History Museum.

In his private life he advocated Esperanto . He gave lectures on the international language and wrote some brochures. He translated a fragment of the work The Face of the Earth by his colleague Eduard Suess into Esperanto and Zamenhof's poem La vojo into German.

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  • Tertiary fossils from the coal-bearing Miocaen deposits in the vicinity of Krapina and Radaboj and about the position of the so-called "Aquitaine level". In: Mittheilungen from the yearbook of the Royal Hungarian Geological Institute, 10, 5, 1894, pp. 163-175

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SURNAME Fuchs, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geologist, paleontologist and museum curator
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Eperies , Sáros county
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1925
Place of death Steinach am Brenner , Tyrol