Hoernes, Moriz der Ältere#
b. Vienna, July 14, 1815, d. Vienna, Nov. 4, 1868, palaeontologist. Father of Moriz Hoernes the Younger and Rudolf Hoernes. Worked at the Imperial Department of Natural Sciences in Vienna, later became its director. Was the first to carry out research into the Tertiary mollusc fauna of the Vienna basin.
Work: Die fossilen Mollusken des Tertiaerbeckens von Wien, in: Abhandlungen
d. Geolog. Reichsanstalt, 1852-1870.
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