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See also:HOCHSTETTER, See also:FERDINAND See also:CHRISTIAN VON, See also:BARON (1829—1884) , See also:Austrian geologist, was See also:born at See also:Esslingen, Wurtemberg, on the 3oth of See also:April 1829. He was the son of Christian Ferdinand Hochstetter (1787—1860), a clergyman and See also:professor at Briinn, who was also a botanist and mineralogist. Having received his See also:early See also:education at the evangelical See also:seminary at Maulbronn, he proceeded to the university of See also:Tubingen; there under F. A. See also:Quenstedt the See also:interest he already See also:felt in See also:geology became permanently fixed, and there he obtained his See also:doctor's degree and a travelling scholarship. In 1852 he joined the See also:staff of the Imperial See also:Geological Survey of See also:Austria and was engaged until 1856 in parts of Bohemia, especially in the Bohmerwald, and in the Fichtel and Karlsbad mountains. His excellent reports established his reputation. Thus he came to be chosen as geologist to the See also:Novara expedition (18$7—1859), and made numerous valuable observations in the voyage See also:round the See also:world. In 1859 he was engaged by the See also:government of New See also:Zealand to make a rapid geological survey of the islands. On his return he was appointed in 186o professor of See also:mineralogy and geology at the Imperial See also:Polytechnic See also:Institute in See also:Vienna, and in 1876 he was made See also:superintendent of the Imperial Natural See also:History Museum. In these later years he explored portions of See also:Turkey and eastern See also:Russia, and he published papers on a variety of geological, palaeontological and mineralogical subjects. He died at Vienna on the 18th of See also:July 1884.
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