Moritz Hoernes
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Moritz Hörnes (14 July 1815 – 4 November 1868) was an
Born in Vienna, he was educated at the University of Vienna and graduated with a PhD. He then became an assistant in the Vienna mineralogical museum. He was distinguished for his research on the Cenozoic Mollusca of the Vienna Basin and of Alpine regions. Most of his memoirs were published in the Jahrbuch der K. K. geol. Reichsanstalt.
In 1864 he introduced the term
In 1860 the mineral
The Florentine Diamond was properly weighed and documented and a plaster copy made of it under his supervision.[3]
His son Dr. Rudolf Hörnes (1850–1912), professor of geology and palaeontology in the University of Graz, also carried on researches among the Cenozoic mollusca, and is author of Elemente der Palaeontologie (1884).
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hörnes, Moritz". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Hörnesite Mindat.org
- ^ Mineral species discovered in the Carpathian area Herman Otto Museum Department of Mineralogy
- ^ "Florentiner - Glasreplik eines verschollenen Diamanten Objekt - NHM Wien".
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