!!!Hopfner, Friedrich

b. Trutnov, Czech Republic (then Trautenau), Oct. 28, 1881, 
d. Lake Hinterstein (Tyrol), Sept. 5, 1949 (drowned), geodesist and 
geophysicist, notable planetologist. 1921 chief astronomer at the 
Federal Office of Calibration and Surveying in Vienna, 1936 professor 
at the University of Technology in Vienna, 1948/49 rector.

!Publications
Die Figur der Erde, 1927; Physikal. Geodaesie, 1933; 
Grundlagen der Hoeheren Geodaesie, 1949.

!Literature
Almanach der Oe. Akad. 
d. Wiss. 1950.

!Literature
OeBL; NDB.



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