[2] Bruno Sander, whose father was a public prosecutor,[3] spent his boyhood in what was then Bozen in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
His doctoral dissertation, supervised by Josef Blaas (1851–1936), is entitled Geologische Beschreibung des Brixner Granits.
[4] During his military service, he was a commissioned officer with the title Lagerstättenebegutacher (mineral deposit surveyor) under the command of K.u.K.
[4] Sander became known as the founder of an internationally renowned "Innsbruck school of mineralogy and geology" with branches worldwide.
[3] He is considered a pioneer of geological-mineralogical structural science with applications in rock mechanics and engineering geology.
[6] According to Eleanora Bliss Knopf, Sander's 1911 paper Über Zusammenhänge zwischen Teilbewegung und Gefüge in Gesteinen[7] is a "milestone in petrology".
In 1958 the Austrian Geological Society appointed him an honorary member and awarded him the Eduard Sueß Medal.
[11] The building of the Faculty of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Innsbruck was named after Bruno Sander.