Rudolf Kner

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

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)^[1] 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 (16 November 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.

Legacy[]

The fish genus Kneria was named in his honor by Franz Steindachner.

The catfish Oxydoras kneri was named in his honor by Pieter Bleeker.

Kner's goby Pomatoschistus knerii although the patronym not identified but certainly in honor of Franz Steindachner's Vienna colleague, ichthyologist Rudolf Kner ^[2]

See also[]

• Category:Taxa named by Rudolf Kner

References[]

External links[]

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• Works by or about Rudolf Kner at 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