!!!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.

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Work: Die fossilen Mollusken des Tertiaerbeckens von Wien, in: Abhandlungen 
d. Geolog. Reichsanstalt, 1852-1870.

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