Friedrich Katzer

Who is Friedrich Katzer?

Friedrich Katzer was an Austrian geologist and mineralogist.

From 1880 to 1883 he was a student at the University of Prague and at the Technische Hochschule in Prague, where he later worked as an assistant. In 1888 he was head of a testing station for construction materials in Wrschowitz. In 1890 he obtained his PhD from the University of Giessen, later becoming an assistant in mineralogy and geology at the University of Leoben.

From 1895 he was in charge of the mineralogy/geology department at the Museu Paraense in Belém, from where he undertook various exploratory projects. In 1898 he began work as a state geologist in Sarajevo, and in 1900 was appointed director of the Bosnian geological Landesanstalt.

He created mineralogical and geological collections in Belém at the "Museu Paraense" and at the Bosnian National Museum in Sarajevo. Under his directorship, he conducted the first comprehensive geological survey in Bosnia-Herzegovina.