Christian Gottlieb Ferdinand Ritter von Hochstetter was a German-Austrian geologist. In 1857 he was appointed geologist on the Austrian Novara expedition to New Zealand, collecting natural history specimens and producing the first geological map of New Zealand.
- Occupation
- geologist, professor, geographer, naturalist
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Württemberg, Austria–Hungary
- Born
- April 30, 1829
- Died
- July 18, 1884
