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Alexander Bittner (16 March 1850, in Friedland – 31 March 1902, in

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) was an Austrian

paleontologist Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...

and

geologist A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid, liquid, and gaseous matter that constitutes Earth and other terrestrial planets, as well as the processes that shape them. Geologists usually study geology, earth science, or geophysics, althou ...

. Following graduation from the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...

in 1873, he remained in Vienna as an assistant to

Eduard Suess Eduard Suess (; 20 August 1831 - 26 April 1914) was an Austrian geologist and an expert on the geography of the Alps. He is responsible for hypothesising two major former geographical features, the supercontinent Gondwana (proposed in 1861) and t ...

. In 1874-76 he conducted geological research in

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and

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, followed by an internship at the Imperial Institute of Geology in Vienna (1877). In 1897 he was appointed chief geologist of the institute.Bittner, Alexander
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Bittner is known for his

stratigraphic Stratigraphy is a branch of geology concerned with the study of rock layers (strata) and layering (stratification). It is primarily used in the study of sedimentary and layered volcanic rocks. Stratigraphy has three related subfields: lithostrati ...

-paleontological research of the eastern

Alps The Alps () ; german: Alpen ; it, Alpi ; rm, Alps ; sl, Alpe . are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe, stretching approximately across seven Alpine countries (from west to east): France, Sw ...

, especially studies involving

brachiopod Brachiopods (), phylum Brachiopoda, are a phylum of trochozoan animals that have hard "valves" (shells) on the upper and lower surfaces, unlike the left and right arrangement in bivalve molluscs. Brachiopod valves are hinged at the rear end, w ...

s from the Alpine

Triassic Period The Triassic ( ) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.36 Mya. The Triassic is the first and shortest period ...

. He was among the first scientists to study the effects of the

Belluno Belluno (; lld, Belum; vec, Belùn) is a town and province in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Located about north of Venice, Belluno is the capital of the province of Belluno and the most important city in the Eastern Dolomites region ...

earthquake that occurred in northern Italy on 29 June 1873.

Selected works

* ''Vorschläge für eine Normirung der Regeln der stratigraphischen Nomenclatur'', 1879 - Proposal for a normalization of rules for stratigraphic nomenclature. * ''Die geologischen verhältnisse von Hernstein in Niederosterreich und der weiteren umgebung'', 1882 - Geological conditions of

Hernstein Hernstein is a town in Lower Austria, Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of ...

Lower Austria Lower Austria (german: Niederösterreich; Austro-Bavarian: ''Niedaöstareich'', ''Niedaestareich'') is one of the nine states of Austria, located in the northeastern corner of the country. Since 1986, the capital of Lower Austria has been Sankt P ...

, etc. * ''Beiträge zur Kenntniss tertiärer Brachyuren-Faunen'', 1884 - Contribution to the knowledge of

Tertiary Tertiary ( ) is a widely used but obsolete term for the geologic period from 66 million to 2.6 million years ago. The period began with the demise of the non-avian dinosaurs in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, at the start ...

Brachyura. * ''Brachiopoden der Alpinen Trias'', 1890 - Brachiopods of the Alpine Triassic. * ''Neue Koninckiniden des alpinen Lias'', 1893 - New Koninckiniden of the Alpine

Lias Lias may refer to: Geology * Lias Formation, a geologic formation in France *Lias Group, a lithostratigraphic unit in western Europe * Early Jurassic, an epoch People * Godfrey Lias, British author * Mohd Shamsudin Lias (born 1953), Malaysian ...

. * ''Lamellibranchiaten der Alpinen Trias'', 1895 - Lamellibranchia of the Alpine Triassic.OCLC Classify
(publications)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bittner, Alexander 1850 births 1902 deaths University of Vienna alumni 19th-century Austrian geologists Austrian paleontologists People from Frýdlant Burials at the Vienna Central Cemetery German Bohemian people Austrian people of German Bohemian descent