RITTER VON

See also:

• FRANZ, ROBERT (1815-1892)

FRANZ

See also:

• RITTER VON FRANZ HAUER (1822–1899)

HAUER (1822–1899)  , Austrian geologist, born in Vienna on the 30th of January 1822, was son of Joseph von Hauer (1778–1863), who was equally distinguished as a high Austrian official and authority on finance and as a palaeontologist . He was educated in Vienna, afterwards studied geology at the mining academy of Schemnitz (1839-1843), and for a time was engaged in official mining work in Styria . In 1846 he became assistant to W. von Haidinger at the mineralogical museum in Vienna; three years later he joined the imperial geological institute, and in 1866 he was appointed director . In 1886 he became superintendent of the imperial natural history museum in Vienna . Among his special geological works are those on the Cephalopoda of the Triassic and Jurassic formations of Alpine regions (1855–1856) . His most important general work was that of the Geological Map of Austro-Hungary, in twelve sheets (1867–1871; 4th ed., 1884, including Bosnia and Montenegro) . This map was accompanied by a series of explanatory pamphlets . In 1582 he was awarded the Wollaston medal by the Geological Society of London . In 1892 von Hauer became a life-member of the upper house of the Austrian parliament . He died on the _loth of March 1899 . Puul.icaT1oxs.—Beitrage zur Palaontolographie von Osterreich (1858–18J9); Die Geologic and ihre Anwendung auf die Kenntn.is der Bodenbeschaffenheit der osterr.-ungar . Monarchic (1875; ed .

2, 1878) . Memoir 1w Dr E . Tictzc; Jahrbuch der K . K. geolog . Reichsanstalt (1899, reprinted 1900, with portrait) .