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AUGUST GEORG See also:EDMUND (1839—1907) , Austro-Hungarian geologist and palaeontologist, son of the surgeon Georg Mojsisovics von Mojsvar (1799—1860), was See also:born at See also:Vienna on the 18th of See also:October 1839. He studied See also:law in Vienna University, taking his See also:doctor's degree in 1864, and in 1867 he entered the See also:Geological See also:Institute, becoming See also:chief geologist in 1870 and See also:vice-director in 1892. He retired in 1900, and died at Mallnitz on the 2nd of October 1907. He paid See also:special See also:attention to the See also:cephalopoda of the See also:Austrian Trias, and his publications include Das Gebirge See also:urn See also:Hallstatt (1873—1876); See also:Die Dolomitrisse von Sudtirol and Venetien (1878—188o); Grundlinien der Geologie von Bosnien-Herzegowina (188o) with E. Tietze and A. Bittner; Die Cephalopoden der mediterranen Triasprovinz (1882); Die cephalopoden der Hallsteitter Kalke (1873—1903); and Beitrage zur Kenntniss der obertriadischen Cephalopodenfaunen See also:des See also:Himalaya (1896). With Melchior See also:Neumayr (1845—1890) he conducted the Beitreige zur Paldontologie and Geologie Oesterreich-Ungarns. In 1862, with See also:Paul Grohmann and Dr Guido von Sommaruga, he founded the Austrian Alpine See also:Club, and he also took See also:part in establishing the See also:German Alpine Club, which combined with the former in 1873.

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