Moritz Hornes

Moriz Hoernes (* July 14, 1815 in Vienna, † November 4, 1868 in Vienna ) was an Austrian geologist and paleontologist.

Life

Moriz Hoernes whose parents died early, worked in 1833 as an accounting clerk. But the way he studied science and was in the 1837 kk Hofmineralienkabinett hired because he had previously made ​​as a temp work and therefore knew. In 1841 he received a doctorate in phil. In 1856 he was curator of the Cabinet. Together with Paul Partsch he inventoried the collection again. Hoernes one of the founders, founded by Franz von Hauer Society of Friends of Natural Sciences of members of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

Hoernes was the father of prehistorian Moriz Hoernes and the geologist Rudolf Hoernes.

Work

The classification of a portion of the Cenozoic in the Paleogene and Neogene which date back to Moriz Hoernes. He noticed in studies of fossil molluscs from the Vienna Basin to the similarity of the shells from the sediments of the Miocene and Pliocene, but clearly differed from the shells of the older layers. He called the younger Neogene period, the older Paleogene.

Writings

  • Clear presentation of the Mohs Mineral Systems, 1847
  • 7 Report on the Bereisung several localities of Tertiary petrifactions in the Vienna Basin. Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Imperial Geological Institute 001, 1850, pp. 662-679 online ( PDF, 1.7 MB)
  • About the Faluns in southwestern France by Joseph Delbos. Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Imperial Geological Institute 001, 1850, pp. 587-598 online ( PDF, 1.2 MB)
  • About some new gastropods from the eastern Alps. Denkschr.Akad.Wiss.Wien 10_2, 1855, pp. 173-178 online ( PDF, 1.4 MB)
  • About the gastropods and Acephalen the Hallstatt layers. Denkschr.Akad.Wiss.Wien 9_2, 1855, pp. 33-56 online ( PDF, 2.6 MB)
  • The fossil mollusks of the Tertiary Basin of Vienna, 1856 ( Volume 1 ) and 1871 ( Volume 2 by August Emanuel von Reuss completed. )
  • About gastropods from the Triassic of the Alps. Denkschr.Akad.Wiss.Wien 12_2, 1856, pp. 21-34 online ( PDF, 1.8 MB)
  • . About the meteorite case Kabu, southwest of Debrecen, on April 15, 1857 Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences Math and Science Class 31, 1858, pp. 347-350 online ( PDF, 465 kB)
  • . About the meteorite case Ohaba in Blaj districts in Transylvania, in the night between the 10th and 11th October 1857 Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences Math and Science Class 31, 1858, pp. 79-84 online ( PDF, 555 kB)
  • The fossil mollusks of the Tertiary Basin of Vienna. Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Imperial Geological Institute 014, 1864, pp. 509-514 online ( PDF, 627 kB)
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