Wilhelm Ehgartner

Wilhelm Ehgartner (born February 23, 1914 in Graz , † November 9, 1965 in Vienna ) was an Austrian anthropologist . He also researched fossil hominids .

Ehgartner studied anthropology and prehistory at the University of Vienna and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. From 1943 to 1951 he was employed as a research assistant or assistant at the Anthropological Institute of the University of Vienna. From 1940 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as an officer in the Wehrmacht. From 1951 to 1965 he worked as a scientific official at the Natural History Museum Vienna . Most recently he was director of the anthropological department there. In 1957 he qualified as a professor for physical anthropology at the University of Vienna. Ehgartner was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Publications (selection)

• Fossil great apes from South Africa. Australopithecinae . In: Mitteilungen der Anthropologische Gesellschaft in Wien 80, 1950, pp. 157–212
• Rudolf Routil † . In: Annals of the Natural History Museum in Vienna 60, 1955, pp. 1–4 ( PDF; 1.1 MB )
• The human skeletons from the Austrian excavation in Egyptian Nubia in 1961/62 . In: Annals of the Natural History Museum in Vienna 65, 1962, pp. 333–336 ( PDF; 8.5 MB )

literature

• Johann Jungwirth: Director Dr. Wilhelm Ehgartner † . In: Annalen des Naturhistorisches Museum Wien 69, 1966, pp. 1–5 ( PDF; 1.1 MB )
• Helmuth Zapfe : Index Palaeontologicorum Austriae (= Catalogus fossilium Austriae issue 15). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1971, p. 26 ( PDF; 354 ​​kB )