Rudolf Hoernes

Rudolf Hoernes ( born October 7, 1850 in Vienna, † August 20, 1912 in Jewish village Straßengel in Styria) was an Austrian geologist and paleontologist.

Life

Rudolf was born as the son of the director of the former Imperial Court minerals Cabinet Moriz Hoernes. His mother, nee Strauss, was the sister of the wife of Professor Eduard Suess. One of his brothers is known as an anthropologist Professor University of Vienna Dr. Moriz Hoernes.

After his stored in the Vienna high school and university studies, he joined in 1873 as an intern in the kk geological Imperial Institute, where he remained until 1876. On June 5, 1876, he became the A.O. Professor of Geology at the University of Graz appointed. While working as a geologist at the Geological Section Imperial Institute in Vienna Hoernes has made geological recordings in South Tyrol and the adjacent parts of Veneto and published numerous reports about it.

In addition Hoernes was also active in paleontological terms and even then showed him the preference for the comparative study of fossils tertiary age. So conches from Croatia, Southern Styria, Hungary and around Vienna at that time were described by him. In Yearbook of k.k. geological Reichsanstalt 1875 appeared his work on the fauna of the Schlier of Ottnang.

From Graz Hoernes enriched the literature with studies now also extended to vertebrate finds. Much he published in the "Communications of the Association for Styria science " which he edited for several years.

From the year 1878 showed Hoernes a keen interest in the study of earthquake phenomena. He was also secretary for earthquake Styria and has published numerous reports on the in Styria noticed old and new earthquakes.

Writings

• The gastropods of the marine deposits of the Miocene Mediterranean stage I and II, in: Proceedings of the Imperial Geological Institute, 1879-82;
• Elements of paleontology, publisher of Veit & Comp., Leipzig, 1884
• Seismology, publisher of Veit & Comp., Leipzig, 1893