!!!Abel, Othenio

b. Vienna, June 20, 1875, 
d. Mondsee (Upper Austria), July 4, 1946, together with Louis Dollo 
pioneered the field of paleobiology studying the life and environment 
of fossilized organisms; 1917-1934 university professor in Vienna, 
later head of the Institute of Paleontology at the University of 
Goettingen; explored the  Drachenhoehle at Mixnitz.

!Publications
Grundzuege der Palaeobiologie der Wirbeltiere, 1912; 
Lehrbuch der Palaeozoologie, 1920; Die Drachenhoehle bei Mixnitz, 
1931; Vorzeitliche Lebensspuren, 1935; Das Reich der Tiere, 1939.

!Literature
K. Ehrenberg, O. A. Lebensweg, 1975.



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