Moritz Hoernes

Moritz Hörnes (July 14, 1815 – November 4, 1868) was an Austrian palaeontologist. Born in Vienna, he was educated at the University of Vienna and graduated with a PhD. He then became an assistant in the Vienna mineralogical museum. He was distinguished for his research on the Cenozoic Mollusca of the Vienna Basin and of Alpine regions. Most of his memoirs were published in the Jahrbuch der K. K. geol. Reichsanstalt. In 1860 the mineral was named in his honor by Wilhelm Haidinger, with Gustav Adolph Kenngott being its co-describer.