Background
His father Franz Serafin was, from 1831 to 1848, a professor for philosophy in Prague and 1848 onwards was on the Board of Education in Vienna and an influential reformer of Austrian university education.
physicist university professor
His father Franz Serafin was, from 1831 to 1848, a professor for philosophy in Prague and 1848 onwards was on the Board of Education in Vienna and an influential reformer of Austrian university education.
University of Vienna.
Exner comes from one of the most important university families of the Austrian-Hungarian empire. The same Exner family includes Adolf Exner, Karl Exner, Sigmund Exner, and Marie von Frisch. Exner was the youngest of five children of parents Franz Serafin Exner and Charlotte Dusensy.
When Exner was appointed 1908 as chancellor of the University of Vienna, he was at the pinnacle of his scientific activities.
Franz Serafin Exner can be described as a physicist with a strong vision, cultivating versatile and highly educated pupils.
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Austrian Academy of Sciences.