Gustava Aigner

Gustav Kahler, born Gustav Aigner ( born April 29, 1906 in Salzburg; † 22 March 1987) was an Austrian geologist and paleontologist.

Aigner was the daughter of a lawyer and went to the girl reform school in Salzburg. She studied geology and related fields at the University of Graz, where it 1927 Teaching Certificate in geography and natural history took off in 1929 with Franz Heritsch with honors Dr. phil. received his doctorate with a thesis in paleontology ( The Productiden the Carboniferous of Notsch iG ). She was to Martha Cornelius Furlani only the second woman, who studied geology in Austria.

She was married since 1935 with the geologist Franz Kahler, with whom she had three daughters and with which they also published a lot, especially about Fusuliniden.

Her colleague Ida Peltzmann named two types according to her, in recognition of the fact that Kahler was the first graptolites in the Northern Greywacke Zone.

Works

• Silurian fossils from the greywacke zone in Fieberbrunn, Tirol. Negotiations Geological Survey 1930, pp. 222-224, Vienna 1930
• With Franz Heritsch: Cephalopods from the Lower Carboniferous of Notsch iG. Mitt Naturwiss. Steiermark, Graz, 1930, pp. 42-50

Documents

• Helmut W. Wings: Gustav Bare - Aigner (1906-1987), Natural Sciences. Association for Carinthia, pdf

• Geologist
• Paleontologist
• Austrian
• Born in 1906
• Died in 1987
• Woman