!!!Senn, Franz

b. Laengenfeld (Tyrol), March 19, 1831, 
d. Neustift im Stubaital (Tyrol), Feb. 1, 1884. Mountaineer, priest in 
Tyrolese mountain villages (Vent, Nauders, Neustift im Stubaital) and 
co-founder of the Austrian Alpine Club ( Alpenverein, 
Oesterreichischer) in 1862. S. established Tyrolean mountain guide and 
mountain rescue service and was known as "Gletscherpfarrer" (glacier 
priest). The F.-S.-Huette refuge (2,149 m) at the foot of the 
Alpeiner Ferner glacier has been named after him.



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