Franz Ritter von Hauer

Franz Ritter von Hauer (born 30 January 1822 in Vienna, † March 20, 1899 ) was an Austrian geologist and paleontologist.

Life

Franz von Hauer was a son of the Privy Council of Joseph Hauer, his brothers were the chemist Karl and the Montanist Julius. He studied from 1839 to 1843 at the Mining Academy Schemnitz, 1846, he became assistant to Wilhelm Ritter von Haidinger at the Mineralogical Museum in Vienna. From 1865 he was a corresponding member of the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome. In the same year he was also the successor of Ferdinand von Hochstetter as director (now General ) of the kk Natural History Court Museum. Hauer 1866 Director of the Imperial and Royal Geological Imperial Institute in Vienna and made to geological maps of Austria and Transylvania.

In 1882 he was awarded the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London. He founded in 1886 the annals of imperial- royal Natural History Court Museum.

Hauer was buried in a grave of honor in Vienna's central cemetery. In 1917 in Vienna Landstrasse ( 3rd district ), the Franz Hauer alley named after him.

According to him, the mineral Hauerite ( mNS2 ) is named.

Works

• Posts about the Palaeontolographie of Austria (1858-1859)
• Franz von Hauer, Guido Stache: Geology of Transylvania. After the recordings of the Imperial Geological Reichsanstalt and literary expedients. Vienna: Wilhelm Braumüller, 1863 digitized.
• The geology and its application to the knowledge of the ground of the Austro- Hungarian. Monarchy (1875, 2nd edition 1878).