Anton Rzehak (26 May 1855 in Nový Dvůr, part of Nikolčice – 31 March 1923 in

Brno Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic ...

) was a Moravian

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 ...

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

prehistorian Prehistory, also known as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the use of the first stone tools by hominins 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use of ...

. He studied chemistry and geology at the University of Technology in Brno, where from 1880 to 1884, he worked as an assistant to Alexander Makowsky (1833–1908).Rzehak, Anton (1855-1923), Geologe, Paläontologe und Prähistoriker
Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon und biographische Dokumentation In 1883, the two men published a geological map of the environs of Brno. From 1884 to 1905 he taught classes in chemistry and natural history at a secondary school in Brno, and meanwhile, obtained an associate professorship for paleontology and applied geography (1902). In 1905, he was named chair of

mineralogy Mineralogy is a subject of geology specializing in the scientific study of the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals and mineralized artifacts. Specific studies within mineralogy include the proces ...

and geology at the university of technology in Brno. The foraminifer genus Rzehakina bears his name. In

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, for example, the Last Apparition Date of the fossil foraminifer ''Rzehakina epigona'' marks a point in time very close to the end of the Paleocene epoch, making it a biostratigraphically important species.

Selected works

* ''Neue entdeckte prähistorische Begräbnissstätten bei Mönitz in Mähren'', 1879 – Newly discovered prehistoric burial sites in Mönitz.
''Die pleistocäne Conchylienfauna Mährens''
1888 – The

Pleistocene The Pleistocene ( , often referred to as the ''Ice age'') is the geological Epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was fina ...

conch Conch () is a common name of a number of different medium-to-large-sized sea snails. Conch shells typically have a high spire and a noticeable siphonal canal (in other words, the shell comes to a noticeable point at both ends). In North Am ...

fauna of Moravia. * ''Über einige merkwürdige Foraminiferen aus dem österreichischen Tertiär'', 1895 – On some unusual

foraminifera Foraminifera (; Latin for "hole bearers"; informally called "forams") are single-celled organisms, members of a phylum or class of amoeboid protists characterized by streaming granular Ectoplasm (cell biology), ectoplasm for catching food and ot ...

from the Austrian

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 ...

. * ''Die Tertiärformation in der Umgebung von Nikolsburg in Mähren'', 1902 – The Tertiary formation in the environs of Nikolsburg. * ''Das Liasvorkommen von Freistadtl in Mähren'', 1904 – The

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 ...

occurrence at Freistadtl. * ''Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Bronzezeit in Mähren'', 1906 – On the

Bronze Age The Bronze Age is a historic period, lasting approximately from 3300 BC to 1200 BC, characterized by the use of bronze, the presence of writing in some areas, and other early features of urban civilization. The Bronze Age is the second pri ...

in Moravia. * ''Zur Kenntnis der neolithischen Keramik Mährens'', 1909 – On

Neolithic The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several parts ...

ceramics of Moravia. * ''Das Mährische Tertiär'', 1922 – The Moravian Tertiary.Google Search
(published works)

References

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