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10 Facts About Rudolf Kner

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Rudolf Ignaz Kner was an Austrian geologist, paleontologist, zoologist and ichthyologist.

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Kner was born in Linz where his father Johann Evangelist Georg Kner was a tax officer.

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Pauline Anna Barbara Rudolf Kner married the Austrian poet Karl Adam Kaltenbrunner in 1834.

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Rudolf Kner studied in the secondary school in Linz from 1818 and the high school from 1821.

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Rudolf Kner then went to study medicine at Vienna in 1828 where he attended lectures by Franz Freiherrn von Jacquin and Johann Ritter von Scherer.

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Rudolf Kner then worked at the Kaiserlichen Hof-Naturalienkabinett in Vienna, where he worked with Johann Jakob Heckel, among others.

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Rudolf Kner accompanied Heckel on a collecting trip to Dalmatia in 1840.

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Rudolf Kner returned to Vienna as professor of zoology.

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Rudolf Kner suffered from a stroke in 1868 and was bedridden.

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Apart from his work in paleontology and ichthyology, Rudolf Kner wrote some poetry.