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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 554 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARON FERDINAND CHRISTIAN VON HOCHSTETTER (1829—1884)  ,
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Austrian geologist, was born at
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Esslingen, Wurtemberg, on the 3oth of
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April 1829 . He was the son of Christian Ferdinand Hochstetter (1787—1860), a clergyman and professor at Briinn, who was also a botanist and mineralogist . Having received his early
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education at the evangelical seminary at Maulbronn, he proceeded to the university of
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Tubingen; there under F . A . Quenstedt the
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interest he already felt in geology became permanently fixed, and there he obtained his doctor's degree and a travelling scholarship . In 1852 he joined the staff of the Imperial
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Geological Survey of Austria and was engaged until 1856 in parts of Bohemia, especially in the Bohmerwald, and in the Fichtel and Karlsbad mountains . His excellent reports established his reputation . Thus he came to be chosen as geologist to the
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Novara expedition (18$7—1859), and made numerous valuable observations in the voyage round the
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world . In 1859 he was engaged by the government of New Zealand to make a rapid geological survey of the islands . On his return he was appointed in 186o professor of
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mineralogy and geology at the Imperial Polytechnic Institute in Vienna, and in 1876 he was made superintendent of the Imperial Natural
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History Museum . In these later years he explored portions of
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Turkey and eastern Russia, and he published papers on a variety of geological, palaeontological and mineralogical subjects . He died at Vienna on the 18th of
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July 1884 .

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