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Höfer Hans (17.05.1843 – 09.02.1924)
Born in Elbogen. During the years 1860-1864 he studied at the Higher Mining School in Leoben and began his public service at the gold mine in the village of Nagvag in Transylvania. In 1865 Höfer explored the Zsil valley and discovered a coal deposit there, working in a silver mine in central Bohemia. In 1867-1868 on the instructions of the Austrian Geological Survey, he explored the High Tatras and areas to the city of Prešov, making the first ascent to the Gerlach peak. From 1869 Höfer was the director and professor of the newly founded mining school in Klagenfurt and the Mining Academy in Central Bohemia in Příbram (now the mining museum), and from 1881 to 1911 he was a professor at the Mining School in Leoben. In 1872 Hoefer took part as a geologist in the northern polar expedition of Johann Wilczek and visited Spitsbergen, Novaya Zemlya and the northeast of the European part of Russia.
During his visit to the World Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876 Höfer got acquainted with local mining areas and oil fields. On the basis of his field geological research, he came to the conclusion that the leading role of the anticlinal theory in explaining the features of the accumulation and preservation of oil fields. Höfer first introduced the term “oil” as a designation for all liquid organic combustible natural products that come from the earth. Hefer's great contribution to the development of methods and techniques of drilling, as an oil expert, he visited almost all European oil areas. He died in Vienna. Cape in the south of the island of Wilczek Land in the archipelago of Franz Josef Land. Opened and named by Y. Paier in 1874. Cape on the southern shore of the Hornsund Bay, Spitsbergen. Coordinates 76° 56.9'N 15° 46.5'E. |
