Gustav von Hayek

Gustav von Hayek ( born March 21, 1836 in Brno (Brno, Czech Republic), † 11 January 1911 in Vienna) was a naturalist, a teacher at secondary schools and pioneer of Ornithology in Austria. He is the father of August von Hayek.

Life

Hayek served from 1854 to 1863 in the Navy, with whom he undertook a world tour. He then studied natural sciences at the University of Vienna, was assistant to Andreas Kornhuber and received his doctorate 1869. 1869 bis 1900 he was employed as a high school professor of natural history and chemistry. Hayek was head of the ornithological association and Gene Real secretary of the " Comité International Ornithological permanently ".

Among other things, he was the editor of the "Illustrated Guide to the natural history of the animal kingdom ," a textbook for middle schools as well as the manual of zoology in four volumes ( 1877-1893 ) and the Great hand atlas of the natural history of all three kingdoms (1882).

Works

• Hand - atlas of all the medico - pharmaceutischen plants or natural-looking pictures along with descriptions in botanical, pharmacognostischer and pharmacologischer respect to sämmtlichen new hand - and textbooks of Pharmacognosy and pharmacology, with consideration of the latest German, Austrian, Russian and Swiss pharmacopoeia: , for the use of pharmacists doctors and druggists, Jena, 1884 Digitalisat the university and State library Dusseldorf