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Fassadenstatuen des Naturhistorisches Museums

Façade statues on the Museum of Natural History

Various sculptors
1875-79

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Description

The Naturhistorisches Museum was built 1872-1881 after the design of Gottfried Semper (Hamburg 1803-Rome 1879) and Carl von Hasenauer (Wien 1833-Wien 1894). The outer four façades were adorned with numerous statues, heads and reliefs were, representing the scientific progress and symbolizing the forces of nature.

The ensemble of sculptures is a continuous outline of the history of the physical worldview:

  1. Central avant-corps: sculpture groups representing two continents (the others are on the back avant corps), on the first floor allegorical groups in niches, in the second floor busts in roundels and at the top under a cupola.
  2. The first floor of the central avant corps and side avant corpses: 10 statues in niches: devoted to the discoveries and the events of the world, indicating that have suddenly expanded the horizon of observation and knowledge.
  3. On the balustrades: 34 statues, a chronological sequence of statues of great men.
  4. Above the windows of the second floor, directly beneath the roof: 64 heads of great men, whose names are in between the windows of the first and second floors.

Main cupola

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Helios, the god of the Sun
Sculpted by Benk

A. Central avant-corps

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A-1. Urania, the Muse of Heaven.
Sculpted by Silbernagl

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A-2. Neptunus / Neptune, the God of the Sea.
Sculpted by Silbernagl

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A-3.

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A-4.

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A-5. Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727)
English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian
Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Tilgner

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A-6. Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
German astronomer
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Tilgner

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A-7. inspiration gestützt auf mathematik
Sculpted by Kundmann

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A-8. forschung entschleiert die natur
Sculpted by Kundmann

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A-9. EUROPA
Sculpted by Kundmann

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A-10. AMERIKA und AUSTRALIEN
Sculpted by Kundmann

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A-11. AFRIKA
Sculpted by Wagner

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A-12. ASIEN
Sculpted by Wagner

B. Statues in the niches

Bellariastraße, Burgring avant-corps Bellariastraße, median avant-corps

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B-1. JASON, with a rudder in his hand and a lion's skin over his shoulders.
Jason, ancient Greek mythological hero who was famous for his role as the leader of the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece (Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Koch

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B-2. KOLAIOS VON SAMOS, with his left hand above his eyes looking to yonder and a rudder in his right hand.
Colaeus, ancient Samian explorer and silver merchant (Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Koch

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B-3. NOAH, with a dove.
Noah (Noé, Noach) tenth and last of the antediluvian Patriarchs. The story of Noah and the ark is told in chapters 6-9 of the book of Genesis (Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Düll

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B-4. MOSES, with the Stone Tables.
Moses [[Moses]]
Sculpted by Düll

Bellariastraße, Museumsplatz avant-corps

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B-5. ALEXANDER DER GROSSE, with a spear and a sphere with a statue of Nike (Victory), at his feet a bust of Athena?
Alexander III of Macedon, known as Alexander the Great (Pella 356-Babylon 323 BC),
king of Macedon, created one of the largest empires of the ancient world (Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Becher

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B-6. JULIUS CAESAR, with staff, scroll and an eagle at his feet.
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus [[Caesar]]
Sculpted by Becher

Maria-Theresien-Platz, Museumsplatz avant-corps Maria-Theresien-Platz, Burgring avant-corps

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B-7. COLUMBUS, with a globe.
Christopher Columbus [[Columbus]]
Sculpted by Schmidgruber

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B-8. VASCO DE GAMA.
Vasco da Gama, [[Gama]]
Sculpted by Schmidgruber

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B-9. MAGELHAENS, with a globe.
Fernão de Magalhães, [[Magalhaes]]
Sculpted by Wagner

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B-10. JAMES COOK
James Cook, [[Cook]]
Sculpted by Wagner

C. Statues on the balustrade

Several have their names on the base (not always visible)
The statues on the Burgring façade (nrs C-29 to C-34) could not be photographed because of the scaffolding.
Bellariastraße, Left avant-corps

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C-1. Anaxagoras (c.510-428 BC),
Greek pre-Socratic philosopher
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Beer

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C-2. Empedocles (c.490-c.430 BC)
Greek pre-Socratic philosopher
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Beer

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C-3. Aristotle (384-322 BC)
Greek philosopher
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Rössner

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C-4. Herodotus (484-c.426 BC)
Greek historian
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Rössner

Bellariastraße, median avant-corps

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C-5. Theophrastus (c.371-c.287 BC)
Greek philosopher
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Schrödl

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C-6. Strabo 64 (or 63 BC-c.?24 AD)
Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian (Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Mailler

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C-7. Pedanius Dioscorides (c.40-90 AD)
Greek physician, pharmacologist, and botanist, (Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Mailler

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C-8. Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD)
Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Mitterleichner

Bellariastraße, median avant-corps Bellariastraße, right avant-corps

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C-9. Galen of Pergamon (129-c.200/216)
Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Mitterleichner

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C-10. Ptolemy (c.100-c.170)
Greco-Egyptian mathematician, astronomer, and geographer
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Mitterleichner

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C-11. Oribasius (c.320-403)
Greek medical writer
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Lahner

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C-12. Cosmas Indicopleustes (6th cent.)
Alexandrian merchant and later hermit
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Weigl

Bellariastraße, right avant-corps Museumsplatz

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C-13. Paul of Aegina (c.625-c.690)
Byzantine Greek physician
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Probst

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C-14. Al-Masudi c.896-956)
Arab historian and geographer
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Swoboda

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C-15. Albertus Magnus (c.1193-1280)
German Dominican friar, scholar
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Gliber

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C-16. Marco Polo (1254-1324)
Venetian merchant traveller
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Gliber

Museumsplatz

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C-17. Andreas Vesalius (c.1514-1564)
Brabantian anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy (Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Werner

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C-18. Conrad von Gessner (1516-1565)
Swiss naturalist and bibliographer
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Werner

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C-19. Carolus Clusius (1526-1609)
Flemish doctor and pioneering botanist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Hofmann von Aspernburg

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C-20. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Hofmann von Aspernburg

Maria-Theresienplatz, left avant-corps

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C-21. GOTTFIED
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)
German mathematician and philosopher
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Costenoble

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C-22. JOSEF PITTON
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708)
French botanist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Costenoble

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C-23. GEORGE LOUIS BUFFON
Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon (1707-1788)
French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopédiste
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Costenoble

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C-24. CARL LINNE
Carl von Linné (Linnaeus) (1707-1778)
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Costenoble

Maria-Theresienplatz, right avant-corps

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C-25. NICOLAUS JAQUIN
Nicolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727-1817)
Dutch-Austrian physician, chemist and botanist (Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Deloye

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C-26. RENE JUST HAUY
René-Just Haüy (1743-1822)
French mineralogist
(Wikipedia)
Sculpted by Deloye

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C-27. JOH. C. FABRICIUS
Johann Christian Fabricius (1745-1808)
Danish zoologist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Deloye

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C-28. LAURENT JUSSIEU
Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu (1748-1836)
French botanist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Deloye

Burgring

C-29. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859)
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer
(Wikipedia)..
Sculpted by Tilgner

C-30. Georges Cuvier (1769-1832)
French naturalist and zoologist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Deloye

C-31. Robert Brown (1773-1858)
Scottish botanist and palaeobotanist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Schrödl

C-32. Friedrich Mohs (1773-1839)
German geologist and mineralogist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Beer

Burgring

C-33. Christian Leopold von Buch (1774-1853)
German geologist and palaeontologist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Tilgner

C-34. Louis Agassiz (1807-1873)
Swiss-American biologist and geologist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Deloye

D. The heads above the windows

The names are below the windows. All heads have a black bird protection 'hat'.
The heads on the Burgring façade (nrs D-56 to D-64) could not be photographed because of the scaffolding.
Bellariastraße, Left avant-corps Bellariastraße, between left and median avant-corps

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D-1. THALES V. MILET
Thales of Miletus (624-c.548 BC)
Greek/Phonecian pre-Socratic philosopher, mathematician and astronomer
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Koch

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D-2. ANAXIMANDER
Anaximander (c.610-545 BC)
Greek pre-Socratic philosopher
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Koch

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D-3. HERAKLIT
Heraclitus of Ephesus (c.535-c.475 BC)
Greek philosopher
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Koch

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D-4. DEMOKRIT
Democritus (c.460-c.370 BC)
Greek pre-Socratic philosopher
(Wikipedia).


Sculpted by Koch
Bellariastraße, between left and median avant-corps

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D-5. HIPPOKRATES
Hippocrates of Kos (c.460-c.370 BC)
Greek physician
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Koch

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D-6. ERASISTRATUS
Erasistratus (c. 304-c.250 BC)
Greek anatomist and royal physician
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Koch

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D-7. EUCLID
Euclid of Megara (c. 435-c.364 BC)

Greek Socratic philosopher
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Werner

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D-8. ARCHIMEDES
Archimedes of Syracuse (c.287-c.212 BC)
Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Werner

Bellariastraße, between left and median avant-corps Bellariastraße, median avant-corps

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D-9. HIPPARCH
Hipparchus of Nicaea (c.190-c.120 BC)
Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Werner

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D-10. NIKANDER KOL.
Nicander of Colophon (2nd cent. BC)
Greek poet, physician and grammarian
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Werner

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D-11. PYTHAGORAS
Pythagoras of Samos (c. 570-c. 495 BC)
Ionian Greek philosopher and mathematician
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Werner

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D-12. SOKRATES
Socrates (c.469-399 BC)
Greek (Athenian) philosopher
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Werner

Bellariastraße, median avant-corps Bellariastraße, between median and right avant-corps

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D-13. PLATO
Plato (c.427-348/347 BC)
Greek philosopher, as well as mathematician
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Werner

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D-14. MOH. BEN GEBER
Al-Battani (Albategnius) (c.858-929)
Arab astronomer, astrologer, and mathematician
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Streschnak

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D-15. ISID. V. SEVILLA
St. Isidore of Seville (c.560-636)
scholar and Archbishop of Seville, the last of the Fathers of the Church
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Streschnak

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D-16. MOH. KAZWIMI
Zakariya al-Qazwini (c.1203-1283)
Arab or Persian physician, astronomer, geographer and proto-science fiction writer
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Streschnak

Bellariastraße, between median and right avant-corps

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D-17. GEBER V. SEVILLA
Jabir ibn Aflah (1100-1150)
Muslim astronomer and mathematician
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Streschnak

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D-18. AVICENNA
Ibn Sīnā (c.980-1037)
Persian polymath
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Streschnak

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D-19. V. V. BEAUVAIS
Vincent of Beauvais (c.1190-c.1264)
author the Speculum Maius, the main encyclopedia in the Middle Ages
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Streschnak

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D-20. THEOPHR. PARACELSUS
Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, genannt Paracelsus (c.1493-1541)
Swiss-German physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer, and general occultist (Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Streschnak

Bellariastraße, between median and right avant-corps Bellariastraße, right avant-corps Museumplatz, left façade

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D-21. U. ALDROVANDI
Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605)
Italian naturalist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Streschnak

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D-22. J. JOHNSTONIUS
John Jonston (1603-1675)
Polish scholar and physician
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Streschnak

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D-23. G. MERCATOR
Gerard Mercator (1512-1594)
Flemish-German cartographer
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Streschnak

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D-24. E. BARTHOLIN
Rasmus Bartholin (1625-1698)
Danish scientist, physician and grammarian
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Fritsch

Museumplatz, left façade Museumplatz, median avant-corps

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D-25. CH. HUYGHENS
Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695)
Dutch mathematician and scientist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Fritsch

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D-26. ROBERT BOYLE
Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist and inventor
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Fritsch

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D-27. JOHN RAY
John Ray (1627-1705)
English naturalist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Fritsch

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D-28. A. LEEUWENHOEK
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723)
Dutch tradesman and scientist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Fritsch

Museumplatz, median avant-corps Museumplatz, right façade

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D-29. J. SWAMMERDAM
Jan Swammerdam (1637-1680)
Dutch biologist and microscopist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Fritsch

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D-30. NICOL. STENO
Nicolaus Steno (Niels Steensen) (1638-1686)
Danish scientist, a pioneer in both anatomy and geology
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Fritsch

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D-31. ALB. V. HALLER
Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777)
Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist and poet
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Fritsch

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D-32. JOH. WALLERIUS
Johan Gottschalk Wallerius (1709-1785)
Swedish chemist and mineralogist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Fritsch

Maria-Theresien-Platz, left avant-corps Maria-Theresien-Platz, Façade between left and median avant-corps

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D-33. IMANUEL KANT
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
German philosopher
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Dorn

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D-34. A. CRONSTEDT
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722-1765)
Swedish mineralogist and chemist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Dorn

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D-35. JAMES HUTTON
James Hutton (1726-1797)
Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Dorn

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D-36. ROMÉ DE L'ISLE
Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle (1736-1790)
French mineralogist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Dorn

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D-37. H.B. SAUSSURE
Horace Bénédict de Saussure (1740-1799)
Swiss geologist, meteorologist, physicist and Alpine explorer
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Dorn

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D-38. GEORGE FORSTER
Georg Forster (1754-1794)
German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Dorn

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D-39. PET. SIM. PALLAS
Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811)
German zoologist and botanist who worked in Russia
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Dorn

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D-40. M.H. KLAPROTH
Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743-1817)
German chemist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Dorn

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D-41. E.FL. CHLADNI
Ernst Chladni (1756-1827)
German physicist and musician
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Dorn

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D-42. WILLIAM SMITH
William Smith (1769-1839)

English geologist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Dorn

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D-43. WILLIAM HARVEY
William Harvey (1578-1657)
English physician
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Rössner

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D-44. KOPERNIKUS
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
Polish astronomer
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Rössner

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D-45. G. AGRIKOLA
Georg Agricola (1494-1555)
German Catholic, scholar and scientist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Rössner

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D-46. J.B. LAMARCK
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1828)
French naturalist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Rössner

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D-47. P.S. LAPLACE
Pierre-Simon Marquis Laplace (1749-1827)

French mathematician, physicist and astronomer.
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Rössner

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D-48. JAK. BERZELIUS
Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779-1848)

Swedish chemist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Rössner

Maria-Theresien-Platz, Façade between median and right avant-corps

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D-49. J.F. BLUMENBACH
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840)
German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Rössner

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D-50. LORENZ OKEN
Lorenz Oken (Okenfuss) (1779-1851)
German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Rössner

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D-51. CH.G. EHRENBERG
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795-1876)
German naturalist, zoologist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Rössner

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D-52. ALC. D'ORBIGNY
Alcide d'Orbigny (1802-1857)

French naturalist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Rössner

Maria-Theresien-Platz, Façade between median and right avant-corps Maria-Theresien-Platz, Right avant-corps Burgring, Left façade

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D-53. CH.SAM. WEISS
Christian Samuel Weiß (1780-1856)

German mineralogist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Rössner

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D-54. GUST. BISCHOF
Karl Gustav Bischof (1792-1870)
German chemist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Rössner

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D-55. ABR. G. WERNER
Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817)
German geologist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Rössner

D-56. Léonce Élie de Beaumont (1798-1874)
French geologist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Beyer

Burgring, Left façade Burgring, Median avant-corps

D-57. Johannes Peter Müller (1801-1858)
German physiologist, comparative anatomist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Beyer

D-58. Stephan Endlicher (1804-1849)
Austrian botanist, numismatist and Sinologist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Beyer

D-59. Carl Ritter (1779-1859)
German geographer
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Beyer

D-60. Wilhelm von Haidinger (1795-1871)
Austrian mineralogist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Beyer

Burgring, Median avant-corps Burgring, Right façade

D-61. Charles Lyell (1797-1875)
British lawyer and geologist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Beyer

D-62. Karl Ernst von Baer (1792-1876)
Estonian scientist and explorer
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Beyer

D-63. Angelo Secchi (1818-1878)
Italian astronomer
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Beyer

D-64. Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
English naturalist and geologist
(Wikipedia).
Sculpted by Beyer

Inscription(s)

DEM REICHE DER NATUR UND SEINER ERFORSCHUNG
KAISER FRANZ JOSEPH I.
MDCCCLXXXI

Alphabetical list of sculptors and their work

Becher, Carl B-5, B-6
Beer, Friedrich C-1, C-2, C-32
Benk, Johann Helios
Beyer, Josef D-56 to 64
Costenoble, Karl C-21 to 24
Deloye, Gustav C-25 to 28, C-30, C-34
Dorn, Alois D-33 to 42
Düll, Alois B-3, B-4
Fritsch, Josef D-24 to 32
Gliber, Jakob C-15, C-16
Hofmann von Aspernburg, Edmund C-19, C-20
Koch, Franz B-1, B-2, D-1 to 6
Kundmann, Carl A-7 to 10
Lahner, Karl C-11
Mailler, Alexander C-6, C-7
Mitterleichner, Franz C-8, C-9, C-10
Probst, Josef Anton C-13
Rössner, Josef C-3, C-4, D-43 to 55
Schmidgruber, Anton B-7, B-8
Schrödl, Leopold C-5, C-31
Silbernagel, Johann Jakob A-2
Streschnak, Anton D-14 to 23
Swoboda, Alexius C-14
Tilgner, Viktor Oskar A-5, A-6, C-29, C-33
Wagner, Anton Paul A-11, A-12, B-9, B-10
Weigl, Robert C-12
Werner, David C-17, C-18, D-7 to 13

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Sculptors

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  • Cook, James
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  • Democritus
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  • Scholar / scientist
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  • Silbernagl, Johann
  • Sinologist
  • Smith, William
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  • Wagner, Anton Paul
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  • Werner, David
  • Writer / poet
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