!!!Ampferer, Otto

b. Hoetting near Innsbruck (Tyrol), Dec. 1, 1875, 
d. Innsbruck (Tyrol), July 9, 1947, geologist and alpinist. In his 
time famous mountaineer (first to ascend the Guglia di Brenta). 
1935-1937 director of the  Geologische Bundesanstalt (Federal 
Geological Institute); geological research and mapping of the Alps in 
the Tyrol and Vorarlberg. His theory of mountain-building by intrusion 
made him the forerunner to the modern theory of global 
mountain-building, namely plate tectonics.

!Literature
E. Thenius, O. A., Begruender der Theorie der 
Ozeanbodenspreizung, in: Geowiss. 6, 1988; M. Leutner, 
Wissenschaftstheoret. Fallstudien zur Entwicklung der 
erdwissenschaftlichen Forschung in Oesterreich. W. Haidinger - F. v. 
Hauer - O. A., 1999.



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