Friedrich Katzer

Friedrich ( also Bedřich ) Katzer ( born June 5, 1861 in Rokycany, † February 3, 1925 in Sarajevo ) was a Bohemian- Austrian geologist and mineralogist.

Life

His education was Katzer at secondary school in Kutná Hora (now Kutná Hora ) and Prague. Then studied (1880-1883), he at the Technical University in Prague and at the Charles University. The study time he finished with the Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Giessen. From 1883 to 1888 Katzer worked as an assistant at the Technical University of Prague. After that he headed until 1891, the inspection of construction materials in Wrschowitz. A year later, his extensive body of work appeared Geology of Bohemia. Katzer was a pupil and assistant of the geologist January Krejčí.

From 1892 to 1895 he acted as assistant of Mineralogy, Geology and Economic Geology in the service of the Styrian - corporative mining establishment of Leoben.

The following three years were spent in a managerial position Katzer until 1898 and as a state geologist in the Brazilian state of Pará. In the National Museum Museu Paraense of Belém various collections were built by him in the mineralogical and geological area. The almost unbearable hygienic and sanitary living conditions forced Katzer, however, to return. He applied for a job in Europe.

On July 15, 1898 Katzer took over the mining authority Sarajevo activity as an adjunct and established the end of 1898 a geological department. In his official position he was in 1901 state geologist and mining engineer in 1909. In 1903 took place in Sarajevo IX. International Congress of Geologists instead. Friedrich Katzer wrote for a Geological leaders and organized jointly with Julius Dreger for the participants a multi-day excursion through the country.

Until his death he was a director, founded from the mountain home team out in 1912 Bosnian - Hercegovinischen Geological Survey. During this time, extensive geological exploration and mapping work was carried out. The then-known gold, cinnabar, graphite, copper, sulfur, and iron ore deposits investigated Katzer and other geologists. This created an in-depth description of these sources of raw materials, which served the subsequent industrial development of the country.

Particular difficulties presented contrary to the geological work during the war years 1914-1918. The week-long field work of the employees country-specific difficulties due to insufficient food, poor housing and insects were added. The collected in Bosnia and Herzegovina paleontological samples came to study not only in Sarajevo but also in Berlin at Leo Paul Oppenheim and in Dresden in H. Engelhardt.

Services

The standard work geology of Bosnia and Herzegovina remained incomplete by the death Katzer and appeared posthumously in 1925.

Friedrich Katzer created mineralogical and geological collections in Brazil for the Museum in Belém and the Bosnian National Museum in Sarajevo. Under his leadership, the first comprehensive geological exploration and description of the mineral deposits in Bosnia - Herzegovina.

Publications (selection )

• Geological Guide to Bosnia and Hercegovina, the. State printing, Sarajevo 1903
• The fossil coals of Bosnia and Hercegovina. 2 vols, Vienna, Sarajevo 1918/1921
• Geology of Bosnia and Hercegovina. 1.Bd.1.Teil, Sarajevo 1924
• Geology of Bosnia and Hercegovina. 1.Bd.2.Teil, Sarajevo 1925
• Geological overview map of Bosnia and Herzegovina 1:200,000