Michael Wachtler

Michael Wachtler - Vision

With friends he discovered the biggest gold treasure in the Alps. On that occasion they found about 20 kg of gold. They started off from a forgotten map by a Swiss scientist.

Michael Wachtler lives in the historical Villa Wachtler in the centre of Innichen (South Tyrol).

Michael Wachtler is one of the Europeans leading thinkers, writers and filmmakers. An internationally acclaimed scientist, explorer and conservationist, he has published more than 100 books and scientific papers. His social criticism often turns him into an uncomfortable contemporary witness.

Since his early youth he devoted himself to the goal of entering deeper into the world of stones than anyone else. He succeeded in detecting the biggest gold – and crystal findings of the Alps and furthermore he discovered countless unknown saurians and fossil plants. Therefore he often is referred to as the “man who speaks to stones” or as the “crystal man”.

He is considered as a connoisseur of the Dolomites and the whole Alps-region. Numberless of his books and films about the genesis, the history and the wars in the Dolomites became standard works. He is founder of DoloMythos, the Natural Heritage of Humanity Museum in Innichen (South Tyrol).

His will to search for Newlands everywhere in the world led him oftentimes to the so far hidden landscapes of the world.

As a field researcher he has discovered and named more than thirty new species of plants and dinosaurs. In 1999 he succeeded in finding the ancestor of snakes and lizards. In his honour Prof. Silvio Renesto named it “Megachirella wachtleri”. Also a lovely fossil fern took his name: "Wachtleria".

Around you can find Wachtler specialties, the most beautiful shop of the Dolomites and Wachtler Residence, a comfortable house for enjoying the Dolomites.

Important discoveries
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A research ban imposed to Michael Wachtler by the authorities.
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Michael Wachtler - Highlights

New Discoveries
Fossil Plants, dinosaurs

Megachirella wachtleri
the ancestor of snakes and lizards

The First World War
in the Dolomites

EVOLUTIONARY LINES
OF CONIFERS (PDF ca. 5 MB)

ORIGIN OF CYCADS (PDF ca. 3 MB)

FERNS AND SEED FERNS (PDF ca. 3,5 MB)

LYCOPHYTA FROM THE EARLY-MIDDLE TRIASSIC(PDF ca. 3 MB)

HORSETAILS FROM THE EARLY-MIDDLE TRIASSIC (PDF ca. 1 MB)

THE LATEST ARTINSKIAN/KUNGURIAN FLORA FROM TREGIOVO-LE FRAINE IN THE VAL DI NON (PDF ca. 4 MB)

Michael Wachtler
Discoverer, philosopher of nature, author, film director
Via P.-P.-Rainer 11,
I-39038 San Candido (BZ)

Tel. +39 0474 913462
Fax +39 0474 913092
michael@wachtler.com
www.michaelwachtler.com

Michael Wachtler - Discoverer, philosopher of nature, author, film director
Via P.-P.-Rainer 11, I-39038 San Candido (BZ)
Tel. +39 0474 913462 - Fax +39 0474 913092 - michael@wachtler.com - www.michaelwachtler.com