Hanns Hörbiger

Hanns Hörbiger
Born	Johann Evangelist Hörbiger 29 November 1860(1860-11-29) Atzersdorf, Vienna, Austrian Empire
Died	11 October 1931 (70) Mauer, Vienna, First Austrian Republic
Known for	Welteislehre

Hanns Hörbiger (November 29, 1860 - October 11, 1931) was an Austrian engineer from Vienna who devised the Welteislehre hypothesis (English: "World Ice Doctrine", WEL, also known as Glacial Cosmogony). His concepts were put forward in books authored in collaboration with amateur astronomer Philipp Fauth. Hörbiger's theories were later popularized by H.S. Bellamy, and influenced Hans Robert Scultetus, head of the Pflegestätte für Wetterkunde ("Meteorology Section") of the Ahnenerbe ("Ancestral Heritage"), a department of the Nazi German Schutzstaffel (SS), who believed that Welteislehre could be used to provide accurate long-range weather forecasts.

Selected Bibliography

• Hoerbiger, Hans (1913), Fauth, Philipp, ed. (in German), Wirbelstürme, Wetterstürze, Hagelkatastrophen und Marskanal-Verdoppelungen, Kaiserslautern: Hermann Kaysers Verlag, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.086729739  — [English: "Hurricanes, Sudden Changes In Weather, Hailstorms and Martian Canal Doublings."]
• Hoerbiger, Hans (1925), Fauth, Philipp, ed. (in German), Hörbigers Glazial-Kosmogonie, eine neue Entwicklungsgeschichte des Weltalls und des Sonnensystems auf Grund der Erkenntnis des Widererstreites eines kosmischen Neptunismus mit einem ebenso universellen Plutonismus, nach den neuesten Ergebnissen sämtlicher exakter Forschungszweige bearb., mit eigenen Erfahrungen gestützt, Leipzig: R. Voigtländer, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011678972  — [English: "Hörbiger's Glacial Cosmogony, a New History of the Development of the Universe and the Solar System based on the Knowledge of the Conflict Between a Cosmic Neptunism and an Equally Universal Plutonism, etc."]

Notes

• Hörbiger was an early supporter and financial backer of the artificial language Occidental, now known as Interlingue.