Hann, Julius von#
b. Schloss Haus in the municipality of Wartberg ob der Aist (Upper Austria), March 23, 1839, d. Vienna, Oct. 1, 1921, meteorologist, brother of Franz Gustav Hann, 1877-1897 director of the Central Institute of Meteorology and Geodynamics in Vienna ( Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik), 1897-1900 university professor in Graz, 1900-1910 in Vienna. Founder of modern meteorology, initiator of the Sonnblick observatory. 1866-1920 editor-in-chief of the meteorology magazine "Meteorologische Zeitschrift".
Works#
Die Erde als Ganzes, ihre Atmosphaere und Hydrosphaere, 1872; Handbuch der Klimatologie, 1883; Atlas der Meteorologie, 1887; Lehrbuch der Meteorologie, 1901.Literature#
OeBL; NDB.