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Prof. Dr. Fritz F. Steininger
Born 1939 in Vienna, until 1995 Full Professor of Paleontology and for many years a Board
Member at the University of Vienna's Paleontology Institute. Focus of scientific work:
classification of time over the last 65 million years of the Earth's history (the Cenozoic era),
and the geodynamic development, the palelogeography and paleobiogeography of the circum
Mediterranean area in this period. To date, 260 publications in scientific journals, in the form
of books or contributions to books. Additionally, numerous articles in the press, on the radio
and television ("Reefs and Lagoons – When Austria was still a Coral Sea"). In September
1995, appointed Director of the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum,
simultaneously held a full professorship at the Goethe University in historical geology and
paleontology. Aims and responsibilities in his new function: to promote the focal topic
"Biodiversity (of the multitude of organisms) in time and space", the continuation of
environmental projects, for example, in the field of biotope mapping in the city of Frankfurt or
natural forest reserves in Hessen. Design and construction also became focal topics when an
underground depositary was constructed for the main building. It was the scientific
departments and the museum that benefited from the resulting extra space. It has now also
been possible to integrate a new institute, the "Research Station Quaternary Paleontology" into
the Senckenberg Institute and to establish a new department, the "German Center for Marine
Biodiversity Research (DZMB)", based in Wilhelmshaven, Oldenburg and Hamburg. In
Eggenburg, his home in the eastern forested region of Austria, as Chairman of the Krahuletz
Society, Steininger heads and curates the Krahuletz Museum, which houses major
paleontological, prehistoric and ethnological collections.
Selected publications
STEININGER, F. & SENES, J., 1971: M1 Eggenburgien. Die Eggenburger Schichtengruppe
und ihr Stratotypus. - Chronostratigraphie und Neostratotypen. Miozän der Zentralen
Paratethys, II, 827 S., 123 Taf., Bratislava (SAV).
STEININGER, F. & THENIUS, E., 1973: 100 Jahre Paläontologisches Institut der Universität
Wien, 1873-1973. - 68 S., 12 Taf., Wien (Eigenverlag des Pal. Inst.).
STEININGER, F. & NEVESSKAJA, L. A. (eds.), 1975: Stratotypes of Mediterranean
Neogene Stages. - vol. 2, 364 S., 72 Abb., Bratislava (VEDA).
RÖGL, F. & STEININGER, F. F., 1983: Vom Zerfall der Tethys zu Mediterran und
Paratethys. - Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 85/A: 135-163, 14 Taf., Wien.
STEININGER, F. F. & RÖGL, F.; 1984: Palaeogeography and palinspastic reconstruction of
the Neogene of the Mediterranean and the Paratethys. - In: Dixon, J. E. & A. H. F. Robertson
(editors): 659-668. The Geological Evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean. - (Blackwell)
Oxford - London - Edinburgh.
RÖGL, F. & STEININGER, F. F., 1984: Neogene Paratethys - Mediterranean - and Indo-
Pacific Seaways. Implications for the Paleobiogeography of Marine and Terrestrial biotas. -
In: Brenchley, P. J. (editor): Fossils and Climatic. - Geol. J. Spec. Issue, 11: 171-200, (Wiley)
New York.