Hochstetter, Ferdinand von#

b. Esslingen (Germany), April 30, 1829, d. Vienna, July 18, 1884, geologist and prehistorian. 1857-1859 took part in the Novara Expedition, during which he explored New Zealand. Professor at the Polytechnical Institute in Vienna, 1876 director of the Museum of Natural History, established the anthropological ethnographic department there. President of the Geology Society, proposed the founding of a Prehistoric Commission at the Academy of Sciences (1878). "H.-Dom" (a mountain in New Zealand) and the "H.-Fiord" in Greenland are named after him.

Publications#

Literature#