Kühn, Othmar#
b. Vienna, Nov. 5, 1892, d. Vienna, March 26, 1969, paleontologist and botanist. Initially secondary school teacher, subsequently in the Geological-Paleontological Department of the Museum of Natural History in Vienna, finally director of that departent. 1951-64 Professor of Paleontology and Paleobiology at the University of Vienna; almost 170 publications.
Works#
Rudistae, Fossilium Catalogus I: Animalia, 1932; Hydrozoa, Handbuch der Palaeozoologie, 1939; Autriche, Lexique Stratigraphique International, 1962.Literature#
F. Steiniger, O. Kuehn, in: Mitteilungen der Geologischen Gesellschaft Wien, 1970.