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 Austrian geologist , palaeontologist , educational reformer and politician . Palaeontologist at the Kaiserlich-königliche Hofmineralien-Cabinett, Vienna, 1852. Professor extraordinarius of palaeontology, University of Vienna, 1857–62; professor extraordinarius of geology, 1862–7. Professor of geology, University of Vienna, 1867–1911. President of the Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna, 1898–1911. Foreign member, Royal Society, 1894. x

Sources: Almanach k. Akad. Wiss 63 1914 Eisenberg, Ludwig 1893 Mitteilungen der Geologischen Gesellschaft Wien (1914): 1–32 Neue Österreichische Biographie I

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See also Correspondence, volume(s): 11