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Hann, Julius vonHann, Julius von, b. Schloß Haus in the municipality of Wartberg ob der Aist (Upper Austria), March 23, 1839, d. Vienna, Oct. 1, 1921, meteorologist, brother of Franz Gustav Hann, 1877-1897 director of the Central Institute of Meteorology and Geodynamics in Vienna (Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik), 1897-1900 university professor in Graz, 1900-1910 in Vienna. Founder of modern meteorology, initiator of the Sonnblick observatory. 1866-1920 editor-in-chief of the meteorology magazine "Meteorologische Zeitschrift". Works: Die Erde als Ganzes, ihre Atmosphäre und Hydrosphäre, 1872; Handbuch der Klimatologie, 1883; Atlas der Meteorologie, 1887; Lehrbuch der Meteorologie, 1901. Literature: ÖBL; NDB.
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