Ewald Wüst

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Ewald Wüst (born September 29, 1875 in Halle , † April 19, 1934 in Kiel ) was a German geologist, paleontologist and botanist.

Life

Wüst was the son of Professor Albert Wüst . He went to high school in Halle, Sangerhausen and Arnstadt (Abitur 1895) and studied in Halle and Strasbourg (1897/98), was Karl von Fritsch's assistant in Halle from 1899 , received his doctorate there in 1900 ( The Pliocene and the oldest Pleistocene in Thuringia ) and completed his habilitation in 1903, after which he was a private lecturer in Halle until 1910. In 1910, he succeeded Hippolyt Haas as associate professor for historical geology and paleontology and head of department at the Mineralogical Institute and Museum at Kiel University . In 1920 he received a full professorship and in 1925 he became a full professor at the newly established Chair of Geology and director of the Geological-Paleontological Institute, which had become independent at the time. He died of lung cancer.

During his time in Halle he dealt in particular with the mammal fauna of the Ice Age (horses, elephants, rhinos) in Thuringia and also excelled as a botanist.

In 1901 he became a member of the German Geological Society and in August 1912 was one of the 34 founding members of the Paleontological Society . In 1925 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Fonts

  • Studies of the Pliocene and the oldest Pleistocene of Thuringia north of the Thuringian Forest and west of the Saale. E. Karras, Halle a. S. 1900 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.13977
  • The fossil tour of the Middle Buntsandstein of the Mansfeld Mulde. Journal of Natural Sciences, 79, 109 - 126, Leipzig 1907

literature

  • Obituary in Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 1934

Web links

Wikisource: Ewald Wüst  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus-Jörg Barthel, Jürgen Pusch The botanists of the Kyffhäuser area , Weissdorn-Verlag 2005, with biography
  2. ^ Palaeontological Journal 1, Issue 1, March 1914
  3. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Ewald Wüst
personal data
SURNAME Wüst, Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist as well as botanist
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Hall
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1934
Place of death Kiel