converted to Lutheranism.

When Eduard Suess was an infant of three, his family relocated to Prague, and then to Vienna to manage a leather factory of an ailing uncle when he was 14. They had an English nurse and later a French and German instructor which made Eduard trilingual at a young age. He became interested in geology at a young age. He studied at the Clementinum and Akademisches Gymnasium before going in 1846 to the Vienna Polytechnic Institute and in 1848, during an uprising,