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Ferdinand von Hochstetter

German geologist (1829-1884) · Academics · Died at 55

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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 specimens and producing the first geological map of New Zealand.

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Ferdinand von HochstetterFerdinand von HochstetterHochstetter's map of the Auckland volcanic field, originally drawn in 1859 and published in the Geological and Topographical Atlas of New Zealand (1864)Hochstetter's map of the Auckland volcanic field, originally drawn in 1859 and published in the Geological and Topographical Atlas of New Zealand (1864)In 1876In 1876Von Hochstetter's representation of a tsunami propagation after the 1868 Arica earthquakeVon Hochstetter's representation of a tsunami propagation after the 1868 Arica earthquake

Awards

Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
Knight of the Order of the Iron Crown (Austria)

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About this person

Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1829 to 1884 · aged 55

Academics born in the 1820s 6

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