Moritz Hornes
Deceased Person
1815 – 1868
Who was Moritz Hornes?
Moritz Hornes, Austrian palaeontologist, was born in Vienna.
He was educated at the University of Vienna and graduated with a Ph.D. He then became 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. Reicksanstait.
In 1864 he introduced the term Neogene to include Miocene and Pliocene, as these formations are not always to be clearly separated: the fauna of the lower division being subtropical and gradually giving place in the upper division to Mediterranean forms. He died in Vienna on the 4th of November 1868.
His son Dr Rudolf Hornes, 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.
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- Born
- Jul 14, 1815
Vienna - Education
- University of Vienna
- Died
- Nov 4, 1868
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on July 23, 2013
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