| The “Geologischen Bundesanstalt” (GBA: Austrian Geological Survey) still holds hidden treasures. A good example is a collection of bills and other papers labelled “Schloenbach-Reisestipendien-Stiftung” (SF: Schloenbach Foundation for travel grants) accidentally found in the attic. Also in the register of the archives of the GBA, many references to the SF are found. In the “Verhandlungen der Geologischen Reichsanstalt” from 1873 to 1921 the Director of the survey reported on the finances of the SF. The collapse of the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy meant the end of the SF and the similar, but younger, “Robert-Jaeger-Preisstiftung” and “Friedrich-Teller-Studienfonds”. Georg Justin Carl Schloenbach was born in 1841 in Liebenhalle (Hannover, Germany). His father,... |
