Ferdinand von Hochstetter
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Christian Gottlieb Ferdinand Ritter von Hochstetter was a German-Austrian geologist. In 1857 he was appointed geologist on the Austrian Novara expedition to New Zealand, collecting natural history spe
Ferdinand von Hochstetter
Von Hochstetter's representation of a tsunami propagation after the 1868 Arica earthquake
The Natural History Museum Vienna is a large natural history museum located in Vienna, Austria.
Ferdinand von Hochstetter
…Ocean to be calculated. In 1872, he became the natural history tutor of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria. In 1876, he was made superintendent of the Imperial Natural History Museum. In these later years he explored portions of Turkey and eastern Russia, and he published papers on a variety of geological, palaeontological and…
Wien Naturhistorisches Museum
Kakapo specimens at the museum
Naturhistorisches Museum at Maria-Theresien-Platz, Vienna
Main staircase in the museum building