Carl Diener (11 December 1862 – 6 January 1928) was an Austrian geographer, geologist and paleontologist.
Carl Diener
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Carl Diener (1922)
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Born | (1862-12-11)11 December 1862 |
Died | 6 January 1928(1928-01-06) (aged 65)
Vienna
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Nationality | Austrian |
Occupation(s) | Geographer, geologist, paleontologist |
In 1883 he received his doctorate from the University of Vienna, where his instructors included Eduard Suess and Melchior Neumayr. In 1893 he changed his venia legendi from geography to geology, a subject that he became an associate professor of in 1897. In 1906 he was named a full professor of paleontology at the University of Vienna.[1]
He is best remembered for his geological (including stratigraphic) and faunistic investigations of the Alps. He also conducted important research on his numerous travels worldwide — Syria and Lebanon (1885), the Pyrenees (1886), the Himalayas (1892), Svalbard (1893), the Urals and the Caucasus (1897), North America (1901), et al.[1] In 1895, with Wilhelm Heinrich Waagen, he proposed the Anisian Stage (a division of the Middle Triassic) as a replacement for the "Alpine Muschelkalk".[2]
He was an avid mountaineer, and for a number of years was president of the Österreichischer Alpenverein (Austrian Alpine Club). He was also a member of the Alpine ClubinLondon.[1]
Diener Creek on Ellesmere Island is named after him, and indirectly the Dienerian substage of the Early Triassic epoch.[3]
With Viktor Uhlig, Rudolf Hoernes and Eduard Suess, he was co-author of the four-part Bau und bild Österreichs (1903), of which Diener wrote Part 2: Bau und bild der Ostalpen und des Karstgebietes (Construction and image of the eastern Alps and the karst areas).[4] He also made major contributions to the paleontological bibliography, Fossilium Catalogus (1913 –).[5] Diener's other noteworthy written efforts include: