Felix Karrer (March 1825 – 19 April 1903) was an
Austrian
geologist.
He was born in
Venice
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, educated in
Vienna, and served for a time in the war department, but he retired from the public service at the age of thirty-two, and devoted himself to science. He made especial studies of the
Tertiary formations and
fossils of the
Vienna Basin, and investigated the geological relations of the thermal and other springs in that region. He became an authority on the
foraminifera, on which subject he published numerous papers. He wrote also a little book entitled ''Der Boden der Hauptstädte Europas'' (1881). He died in Vienna.
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1825 births
1903 deaths
Scientists from Vienna
19th-century Austrian geologists
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