Walter Josef Schmidt

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Walter Josef Schmidt (born August 11, 1923 in Urbau ; † April 2, 2010 ) was an Austrian geologist and university professor .

Life

Walter Josef Schmidt, who was born in Urbau near Retz and grew up in Vienna , devoted himself to studying geology at the University of Vienna after graduating from high school , where he received his doctorate in 1949 with a dissertation under Leopold Kober and Felix Machatschki on the "Matreier Zone" to the Dr. phil. Schmidt completed his habilitation four years later at the Technical University in Vienna for the subject "Geology with special consideration of technical geology" .

Schmidt began his professional career in 1948 as a part-time research assistant at the Geological Institute near Kober, in the following year he switched to soil appraisal at the Ministry of Finance , and in 1950 he took up an assistant position at the Geological Institute of the Vienna University of Technology with Alois Kieslinger . In 1956 Schmidt moved to New York , where he worked as general manager for the mining companies Texas Gulf, Conorada Petroleum Company, Continental Oil Company and American Cyanid Company.

After retiring into private life in 1972, he accepted a call to the professorship for prospecting, depository studies and mineral management at the Montanuniversität Leoben in 1976 , which he held until 1992. In addition, Walter Josef Schmidt acted from 1982 to 1990 as a curator at the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research (FWF) and from 1991 to 1995 as chairman of the Austrian Geological Society , of which he was made an honorary member in 1998.

Fonts

  • Geology of the new Semmering tunnel, Springer, Vienna 1952
  • Geology and ore management of the chromite concession Basören (Anatolia), Springer, Vienna 1954
  • The tertiary worms of Austria: (with 2 tables and 8 tables), Springer, Vienna 1955
  • Trends in the oil contracts of the Middle East, Hammer-Purgstall-Gesellschaft, Vienna, 1960

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personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Walter Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Walter J .; Schmidt, Walter Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geologist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Urbau
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 2010