Meteorologist Ferdinand STEINHAUSER: Correspondence VIENNA 1967/68, hobby meteorologist
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They bid on four typewritten, signed letters of the Austrian Climatologists and meteorologists Ferdinand Steinhauser (1905-1991), Director of the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) in Vienna.
Dated Vienna, 24. November and 7th December 1967 and 16. January and 22nd March 1968. Two letters with the original envelope.
Addressed to the private scholar (private meteorologist) Egon S. from Graz. He worked as a mechanic and, after years of private research, developed a theory on how, by taking the sun, moon and planets into account, Can predict storms for years (!) and also the weather for a longer period of time. With the results of his research, in which no one else was involved, he turned to research institutes, ministries, the press and publishers, but without success. However, he did exchange letters with some researchers and politicians; the Graz daily newspaper "Süd-Ost-Tagespost" even published some of his articles in 1968.
Ferdinand Steinhauser has Egon S. explain his research to him and invites him to give a lecture in his institute to colleagues.
Attached are ten letters from Egon S. to Ferdinand Steinhauser, present as Typescript copy (one additional as original, which apparently was not sent).
The lecture appears to have come about because there is a 2-page typescript carbon copy (with handwritten corrections) in the introduction to this lecture.
Also enclosed is a treatise by Egon S.: "The sun, moon and planets move and control the earth's atmosphere" (8 page typescript carbon copy).
Condition: Paper browned and stained in places, partly with small corner creases. A letter from Ferdinand Steinhauser was used by Egon S. for notes. bplease note also the pictures at the end of the item description!
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About Ferdinand Steinhauser Source: wikipedia):
Ferdinand Steinhauser (* 5. April 1905 in Schrattenthal, Austria-Hungary; † 3. October 1991 in Vienna) was an Austrian climatologist, meteorologist and director of the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) in Vienna.
Career: Steinhauser studied mathematics, physics, meteorology and geophysics at the University of Vienna. In the 1928/29 academic year he passed the teaching examination for mathematics and physics. On the 1st In January 1929 he began his meteorological work as a research assistant in the chair of Earth Physics under Felix Maria von Exner-Ewarten at the University of Vienna.
After Exner's death, Wilhelm Matthäus Schmidt (1883–1936) became director of the ZAMG and Steinhauser was appointed with effect from January 1. December 1930 as a research assistant at this institution.
In 1933 he received his doctorate at the University of Vienna with the thesis “On the elastic deformations of the earth's crust due to local loading with special consideration of snow loading in the Alps” and in 1936 he became a research assistant at the ZAMG. Steinhauser, who had become interested in the climatology of the Alpine region at an early age, completed his habilitation with the thesis “The Meteorology of the Sonnblick” at the University of Vienna.
Military service during the Second World War interrupted his scientific work from 1940 to 1945. The development work at the ZAMG awaited him as early as July 1945. From October 1945 onwards, weather forecasts were regularly published on the radio and in newspapers.
In 1948 Steinhauser became an associate professor of weather and climate science at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna and in 1949 an honorary lecturer in weather and climate science at the Vienna University of Technology.
This was followed in 1953 by his appointment as full university professor of earth physics at the University of Vienna. At the same time, Steinhauser was entrusted with the management of ZAMG as director. He held both positions until his retirement in 1976. In the 1961/62 academic year he was dean of the philosophy faculty and between 1967 and 1970 a member of the Academic Senate of the University of Vienna.
Under his leadership, the ZAMG was expanded into a service company for the public and a modern institution for meteorological, seismic and geophysical research. In 1957, a house on the neighboring property was purchased and subsequently adapted for office purposes; Between 1967 and 1973, a radar tower, a balloon filling house and a new office building with specialist libraries were built in two stages on the premises of the central institute. The Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics also experienced significant staff expansion through his efforts.
Scientific significance
Steinhauser wrote over 200 scientific papers covering a wide Spektrum of meteorological and climatological research. Steinhauser was one of the first to delve into the field of environmental meteorology. He wrote numerous treatises on this subject, such as those on urban climatology and climate fluctuations in the Alpine region.
Environmental pollution, which would become even more important years later, found his interest and is part of his scientific work, such as radioactivity in the air, air pollution and atmospheric opacity. He founded a department for air chemistry at ZAMG and was able to demonstrate how meteorological conditions influenced the spread of sulfur dioxide in the urban areas of Vienna and Graz. His work on wind directions and wind strengths in Austria at different times of the day and year and on solar radiation created the basis for the use of renewable energies and he provided the necessary measurement data.
Awards
1974: Large Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
1976: Wilhelm Exner Medal
1976: Erwin Schrödinger Prize from the Austrian Academy of Sciences
1980: Gold medal of honor from the federal capital Vienna
Publications (selection)
“The meteorology of the Sonnblick, part I. Contributions to high mountain meteorology based on the results of 50 years of observations from the Sonnblick Observatory, 3106 m.", Springer-Verlag Vienna, 1938, ISBN 978-3-662-24043-4
“XLVIII. Annual report of the Sonnblick Association for 1950”, Springer-Verlag Vienna, 1952, ISBN 978-3-7091-4686-6
“The attempts to combat hail in Austria and general comments on the problem of combating hail” (with W. Friedrich) – “Simposio Intern. sulla Fisica delle Nubi a relative Applicazioni all' Agricultura Asti", pp. 124-135, 1958.
“Problems of Weather Forecasting”, Springer-Verlag Vienna, 1966, ISBN 978-3-211-80778-1
“Distribution of the frequencies of wind directions and wind strengths in Austria at different times of day and year" - Works from the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Issue 53, Vienna 1982 (autograph, autograph, science)