Rudolf Kner

Rudolf Kner
Rudolf Kner Lithography by Josef Kriehuber, 1852
Born	August 24, 1810 (1810-08-24) Linz
Died	October 27, 1869 (1869-10-28) (aged 59) Vienna
Nationality	Austrian
Scientific career
Fields	ichthyology
Institutions	Vienna (Austria) Lviv (Ukraine)
Author abbrev. (zoology)	Kner

Rudolf Kner (August 24, 1810 – October 27, 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.

External links

• Works by or about Rudolf Kner at the Internet Archive
• Svojtka, M. (2006): Rudolf Kner und sein Beitrag zu den Erdwissenschaften.- Berichte der Geologischen Bundesanstalt (Vienna), 69: 73-75 http://www.geologie.ac.at/filestore/download/BR0069_073_A.pdf (in German)
• Svojtka, M. (2007): Eindrücke aus der Frühzeit der geologischen Erforschung Ostgaliziens (Ukraine): Leben und erdwissenschaftliches Werk von Rudolf Kner (1810-1869). In: Geo.Alp (Innsbruck), Sonderband 1: 145-154 http://www.uibk.ac.at/downloads/c715/geoalp_sbd1_07/svojtka.pdf (in German)
• Natural history museum, Vienne: History of the fish collection