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Rudolf Kner

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Austrian zoologist and ichthyologist

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According to Wikipedia, Rudolf Ignaz Kner was an Austrian geologist, paleontologist, zoologist and ichthyologist. He also wrote some poems which were published by his brother-in-law K.A. Kaltenbrunner. Biography Kner was born in Linz where his father Johann Evangelist Georg Kner was a tax officer. His mother Barbara , daughter of forester Johann von Adlersburg was earlier married to apothecary Felix Gulielmo until his death. Barbara had a daughter Marie Gulielmo from her earlier marriage before having Rudolf and his sister Pauline. Pauline Anna Barbara Kner married the Austrian poet Karl Adam Kaltenbrunner in 1834. Rudolf studied in the secondary school in Linz from 1818 and the high school from 1821. During this period he was encouraged in the natural sciences with a gift of minerals from his uncle Hallstatt Maximilian Kner . From 1823 he went to the Stiftsgymnasium Kremsmünster. His godfather, Ignaz Rudolph Bischoff became mayor of Linz and had served as a doctor in the Army. From 1826 he went to the Lycaeum in Kremsmünster, taking a keen interest in botany. He then went to study medicine at Vienna in 1828 where he attended lectures by Franz Freiherrn von Jacquin and Johann Ritter von Scherer . He received a medical degree in 1835. He then worked at the Kaiserlichen Hof-Naturalienkabinett in Vienna, where he worked with Johann Jakob Heckel, among others. He accompanied Heckel on a collecting trip to Dalmatia in 1840. In 1841, he became professor for natural science at Lviv University. He returned to Vienna as professor of zoology . His primary field of study was ichthyology, with interests in paleontology and geology.

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