Vincent Bieber

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Vinzenz Bieber (born June 11, 1851 in Niederliebich near Böhmisch Leipa , † December 18, 1909 in Marburg an der Drau ) was an Austrian paleontologist and teacher.

Bieber passed the teaching examination in natural history at the German University of Prague in 1877 . From 1874 to 1877 he was an assistant at the Mineralogical-Geological Institute of the German Technical University in Prague. In the period from 1877 to 1882 he worked at the Geological-Paleontological Institute of the German University in Prague as an assistant. From 1882 to 1885 Bieber was a supplent at secondary schools in Eger and Olomouc . From 1885 to 1907 he was a professor at the secondary school in Marburg an der Drau.

As a paleontologist, Bieber described, among other things, the discovery of the Dinotherium from Franzensbad and Anuren from the Bohemian Young Tertiary, exhibited in the Natural History Museum Vienna .

Publications (selection)

  • About two new Batrachians of the Bohemian lignite formation . In: Meeting reports 82, 1881, pp. 102–124 online (PDF; 2.0 MB)
  • The Urgebirgsscholle on Maschwitzer Berg, N. Dauba . In: Negotiations 1882, pp. 135-136 online (PDF; 322 kB)
  • A dinotherium skeleton from the Eger-Franzensbad tertiary basin . In: Negotiations 1884, pp. 299–305 online (PDF; 641 kB)

literature

  • Helmuth Zapfe : Index Palaeontologicorum Austriae (= Catalogus fossilium Austriae issue 15). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1971, p. 16 online (PDF; 355 kB).
personal data
SURNAME Bieber, Vincent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederliebich near Bohemian Leipa
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1909
Place of death Marburg on the Drau