Education
Initially trained as a pharmacist, from 1836 he studied natural sciences at the University of Vienna by way of influence from botanist Joseph Franz von Jacquin.
geographer university professor
Initially trained as a pharmacist, from 1836 he studied natural sciences at the University of Vienna by way of influence from botanist Joseph Franz von Jacquin.
In 1848 he became a curator at the natural history museum in Klagenfurt, and during the following year, served as chief geologist at the Imperial Geological Institute in Vienna. In this role, he conducted research in the fields of glaciology, climatology, speleology, ecology, hydrology, phytogeography, et cetera From 1840 he performed geomorphological and glaciological research of the Dachstein Mountains.
He is credited as being the first to undertake systematic meteorological studies of the eastern Alps, similar to the research Horace-Bénédict de Saussure performed in the western Alps years earlier.
He was a pioneer in the field of limnology. In 1844 he conducted depth soundings of the Hallstätter See, results of which, were published decades later in Atlas der österreichischen Alpenseen ("Atlas of the Austrian Alpine lakes", edited by Albrecht Penck and Eduard Richter, 2 volumes, 1895-1896).
Throughout his career, he conducted extensive investigations on the depths and temperatures of all the lakes in Salzkammergut. Today, the organization owns a building known as the "Simony-Hütte" (Simony Hut, 2205 m).
lieutenant is located near Hallstätter Glacier and is named after him.
His name is also associated with several Alpine landmarks, such as: Simonykees (Simony Glacier), Simony-Scharte (Simony Notch), Simonyschneide (Simony Ridge) and Simonyspitzen (Simony Peaks).