Resolving Stefan's Problems for Koller's sake

Josef Stefan’s main mentor Marian Koller used to be the very-best astronomer from Upper Carniola besides Augustin Hallerstein who excelled in Beijing. Today, Koller’s work related to Dalton minimum is again in limelight as the alternative explanation of disputed global warming phenomena.

Koller decisively supported a talented Josef Stefan, a Slovene from Klagenfurt, who won his brilliant blitzkrieg pedagogical path from a high school professor to the leading scholar in then Habsburg Monarchy. His greatest helper was his fellow Slovenian Marian Koller, a Benedictine erudite from Bohinj as a leading counsellor at the Ministry of Education. The successful cooperation of both leading Slovenian experts promoted the Habsburgian sciences worldwide. Koller’s international connections and pedagogical-scientific ideas enabled the initial success of young Stefan. In his turn, Stefan made his atomistic kinetic theories mandatory in Habsburgian monarchy except for Ernst Mach’s Prague which traditionally opposed Viennese ideas already during the prevailing influences of the Jesuit Rudjer Bošković’s sciences a century earlier.

Already in 1842, Koller’s astronomical measurements read for then Londoner Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical society were noted in Phil.Mag. Stefan widely used that prestige of his benefactor Koller. It was previously not widely known that Josef Stefan published more than twenty papers in London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical magazine. His Viennese and Leipzig publications were also translated or at last abstracted in Paris and Geneva.