Rudolf Kner

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Austrian zoologist and ichthyologist

Places

Austria

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Zoologist Geologist Ichthyologist Educator

Work field

Academia Biology Science

Gender

Male

Birth

24 August 1810 People who share this birthday

Place of birth

Linz, Upper Austria, Austria

Death

27 October 1869 People who died on this day

Place of death

Vienna, Austria

Age

59 years

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Biography

Rudolf Kner (24 August 1810 – 27 October 1869) was an Austrian zoologist and ichthyologist.

Kner was born in Linz. He studied medicine to completion and then worked at the Kaiserlichen Hof-Naturalienkabinett (now Naturhistorisches Museum Wien) in Vienna, where he worked with Johann Jakob Heckel, among others. In 1841, he became professor for natural science at Lviv University. He returned to Vienna as professor of zoology (November 16, 1849). His primary field of study was ichthyology, with interests in paleontology and geology.

Kner died in Vienna.

Works

Leitfaden zum Studium der Geologie, Vienna, 1851, 2nd edition 1855.
Lehrbuch der Zoologie, Vienna, 1849, 2nd edition 1855, 3rd edition 1862.
Die Süßwasserfische der österreichischen Monarchie, Leipzig, 1858 together with Heckel.
Betrachtungen über die Ganoiden, als natürliche Ordnung, in: Sitzungsberichte der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften [Vienna], 54 (1862), p. 519-536.

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