Eduard Suess (1831–1914)

Austrian geologist, palaeontologist, educational reformer, and politician. Palaeontologist at the Kaiserlich-königliche Hofmineralien-Cabinett, Vienna, 1852. Professor extraordinarius of palaeontology, University of Vienna, 1857–62; of geology, 1862–7; professor of geology, 1867–1911. President of the Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna, 1898–1911. Foreign member, Royal Society of London, 1894.