Franz Ritter von Hauer

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Franz von Hauer

Franz Ritter von Hauer, or Franz von Hauer (30 January 1822 – 20 March 1899) was an Austrian geologist.

Biography

Hauer was born in Vienna, the son of Joseph von Hauer (1778-1863), who was equally distinguished as a high Austrian official and authority on finance and as a palaeontologist.Template:Sfn

He studied geology at the mining academy of Schemnitz (1839-1843), and for a time was engaged in official mining work in Styria. In 1846, he became assistant to Wilhelm von Haidinger at the mineralogical museum in Vienna; three years later he joined the imperial geological institute, and in 1866 he was appointed director. In 1886, he became superintendent of the Imperial Natural History Museum in Vienna.Template:Sfn

Among his special geological works are those on the Cephalopoda of the Triassic and Jurassic formations of Alpine regions (1855-1856). he recognized and discovered 89 species and established the Middle and Late Triassic stratigraphical units of deep shelf environments. His most important general work was that of the Geological Map of Austro-Hungary, in twelve sheets (1867-1871; 4th ed. 1884, including Bosnia and Montenegro). This map was accompanied by a series of explanatory pamphlets.Template:Sfn<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

In 1874, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1882, he was awarded the Wollaston medal by the Geological Society of London.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was also elected as the foreign correspondent of the Geological Society of London.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In 1892, von Hauer became a life-member of the upper house (Herrenhaus) of the Austrian parliament.Template:Sfn

The mineral Hauerite is named after the two von Hauers.

Notes

Regarding personal names: Ritter {{#switch:|yes=was formerly|life=was originally|is}} a title, translated approximately as 'Sir' (denoting a knight){{#switch:|yes|life=. In 1919 all titles of nobility were abolished in Germany and Ritter, together with the noble particles von and zu, became part of the surname.|, not a first or middle name. There is no equivalent female form.}}

Publications

• Beiträge die Paläontolographie von Österreich (1858-1859)
• Die Geologie und ihre Anwendung auf die Kenntnis der Bodenbeschaffenheit der Österr.-Ungar. Monarchie (1875; ed. 2, 1878).

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• • Memoir by Dr. F. Tietze
  • Jahrbuch der K. K. geolog. Reichsanstalt (1899, reprinted 1900, with portrait)