Named for the most famous Austrian narrator Adalbert Stifter (1805–1868). After formative years spent in the Bohemian Forest, he studied near the Benedictine Abbey in Kremsmünster, later living in Vienna and Linz {see planets  (397) and  (1469)}. In his brillant novels and epics (The Timber Forest, Rock Crystal, Indian Summer and Witiko) landscapes were described in a superb manner. Stifter described the correlation of man and nature in a subtle manner, full of feeling. He dealt with questions of education, love and piety, and he was also engaged in painting and science. He gave full details of the total solar eclipse of 1842 July 8 as observed in Vienna. (M 29149) _ _.