Viktor Uhlig

Viktor Karl Uhlig (2 January 1857 – 4 June 1911) was an Austrian geologist and paleontologist.

Biography He studied geology and mineralogy at the universities of Graz and Vienna, receiving his doctorate in 1879. Afterwards he worked as a research assistant under Melchior Neumayr in Vienna, and in 1891 was named an associate professor of geology and mineralogy at the German Polytechnic in Prague. Two years later he became a full professor, and in 1900 returned to Vienna as a professor of geology and paleontology. In 1907 he was a co-founder of the Geologischen Gesellschaft in Wien.

He is best remembered for his geological and tectonic investigations of the Carpathians and for his paleontological work involving ammonites of the Cretaceous period.