Johannes Wolburg

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Johannes Wolburg, 1950

Johannes Wolburg (born February 7, 1905 in Reppen , † July 13, 1976 ) was a German geologist and paleontologist . He was one of the early and pioneering pioneers in the field of micropalaeontology .

Life

Wolburg family in 1910

Johannes Wolburg was born on February 7, 1905 in Reppen. After finishing school and studying, he was a research assistant at the Geological-Paleontological Institute of the University of Göttingen in the early 1930s . As a doctoral student in geology , he carried out field work in the area of ​​the upper Lenne , the results of which he published in 1933 as an inaugural dissertation under the title The Devon in the area of ​​the upper Lenne in the papers of the Prussian Geological Institute .

After his dissertation, Wolburg did not get a job because he was not a member of the NSDAP . It was not until 1937 that he was hired as an assistant at the Mineralogical Institute of the TH Hannover . Wolburg married in 1938 and the following year accepted a temporary position at the Provincial Institute for Regional Planning in Hanover . From 1941 Wolburg worked as a petroleum geologist for the Elwerath union (a forerunner of today's BEB Erdgas und Erdöl GmbH ), initially in Hanover and from 1943 until his retirement in 1970 in Bentheim .

After he had mainly dealt with the Devonian of the Rhenish Slate Mountains and its fossil content in the 1930s , he turned to the stratigraphy of the German Wealden in the 1950s , a period of the Lower Cretaceous at that time , which corresponds to today's Berriasian . He did his best to research the rocks occurring in Germany during this period, so that H. Walz later spoke in his obituary that the name "Wolburg" and the term "Wealden" are inseparable. Towards the end of the 1950s, he expanded his field of work to include the geology of the German Triassic and published a series of summarizing works on this period and its rocks in northern Germany.

Johannes Wolburg died on July 13, 1976. In 2000, a species of sea ​​lily from the Hexacrinidae Arthroacantha wolburgi family was named in his honor.

Scientific discoveries

During the investigations for his doctoral thesis in 1931, Wolburg found eight new species. He discovered a well-preserved brachiopod in the layers of Schmallenberg slate , which he named Leptostrophia schmallenbergensis after the Schmallenberg site . This armfoot occurred in large numbers in the area of ​​the upper Lenne; Wolburg used it as a good index fossil for this area . A special find was the discovery of a sea urchin with a diameter of 8 cm, which he named Lepidocentrus lenneanus . The sea urchin was the first, almost complete specimen of its genus, on which almost all parts of the body were preserved. The originals of the finds are in the collection of the Georg August University in Göttingen. In 1937 Wolburg found the species Ammonicrinus doliiformis (WOLBURG, 1937) during investigations in the central Devon of the Eifel .

Fonts

  • Johannes Wolburg: The Devonian in the area of ​​the upper Lenne , Abh. Preuss. Geol. L.-A., Issue 151, Berlin, 1933
  • Johannes Wolburg: Structure and biology of Ammonicrinus doliiformis n. Sp. , Jb. Pruss. geol. Landesanstalt, 58 f.1937: 230–241, 5 ills., Plates 17–18, Berlin, 1937
  • Johannes Wolburg: On the question of the way of life of the rolled-up crinoids , Zbl. Min. Geol. Palaeont. 1938 (7): 254-261, 2 illustrations; 1938, Stuttgart
  • Johannes Wolburg: Contribution to the problem of macheri , Paläont.Z. 20 (1/4): 289–298, 4 illustrations, Stuttgart, 1938
  • Johannes Wolburg and Hermann Schmidt: The stratigraphic position of Purbeck in the southern Hilsmulde , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1949
  • Johannes Wolburg: Results of biostratigraphy according to ostracodes in Wealden , Northwest Germany , Hanover, 1949
  • Johannes Wolburg: The Bentheimer Saddle in the context of the geology of the Emsland , magazine of the German Society for Geosciences, Volume 102, Issue 1. p. 147-148, 1950
  • Johannes Wolburg: Thresholds and basins in the Emsland tectogen with a paleogeographical outline of Wealden and Lower Cretaceous , Office for Soil Research, Hanover, 1953
  • Johannes Wolburg: A cross-section through the northern part of the Lower Rhine Zechstein Basin , in The Lower Rhine and Westphalian Zechstein and its relationship to the English Zechstein (Article No. 2) , Geological Yearbook, Volume 73, pp. 7-38, Hanover, 1957
  • Johannes Wolburg: On the question of the basal facies of the 2nd Zechstein cycle in the interior of the Lower Rhine Basin, pp. 165-170, special prints issued on October 1, 1957, from the Geological Yearbook, Volume 73, publications by the Office for Soil Research, Hanover
  • Johannes Wolburg: Sedimentation cycles and stratigraphy of the red sandstone in NW Germany , geotectonic research, volume 14, E. Schweizerbartsche Verlagbuchhandlung, 1961.
  • Johannes Wolburg: The epirogenetic phases of the Muschelkalk and Keuper development in Northwest Germany, with a look back at the red sandstone. - in: On the epirogenic history of the Saxonikum , Vol. 2, Schweizerbart Verlag, 1969.
  • Johannes Wolburg: Observations on frost soil phenomena from the last Ice Age in Gronau / Westphalia , journal of the German Society for Geosciences, Volume 128. p. 215-216, 1 fig., 1977
  • Johannes Wolburg, Klaus-Dieter Meyerm Friedrich Schmidt: Geological map of Lower Saxony , 1:25 000. Explanations on sheet Salzbergen, No. 3610. 111 p., 5 tab., 1 tab., 3 ct., NLfB, Hanover. (11), 1977
  • Johannes Wolburg: A geological map of the Bentheimer Saddle - result of a micropalaeontological mapping , Geological Yearbook, Series A. Issue 45, Schweizerbartsche Verlagbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, 1978

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d H.Walz: In Memoriam , Natur und Museum, Vol. 106, p. 320f, Frankfurt 1976 ( Google Books, reference point of the obituary )
  2. ↑ Fimpel u. a .: Special inventory on the history of mathematics and natural science at the University of Göttingen from 1880-1933 , p. 260, 2002 (PDF; 4.1 MB)
  3. ↑ W. Bierther, Geological Association: Annual General Meeting on 26 and 27 April 1947 in Bonn , writing and members, p 77, from Geological Rundschau, 1948, Volume 35, Issue 2, p 184 in International Journal of Earth Sciences, All Volumes & Issues, Volume 35, Issue 2, 1948, Springer, online version (PDF)
  4. ↑ Hauser, J .: New crinoid finds from the Central Devon of the Eifel (Part 2). Arthroacantha. Fossils - Journal for Hobby Paleontologists, Issue 1 Jan./Feb. 2000, pp. 53-59 (PDF; 519 kB)
  5. ↑ Wolburg 1933, p. 66
  6. ↑ Carl-Josef Fretter: Vom Werden und Wesen des Hochsauerlandes - An attempt to tell the history of the earth , from contributions to the history of the city of Schmallenberg 1244-1969, p. 164 ff., Schmallenberg, 1969
  7. ↑ Wolburg 1933, pp. 13, 54 ( Google Books, Leptostrophia schmallenbergensis )
  8. ↑ Wolburg 1933, pp. 47, 66, 67
  9. ^ Index of Living and Fossil Echinoids 1924-1970, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiologie, Lower Devonian, Number 34, Lepidocentrus Lenneanus
  10. ↑ Hauser, J .: Ornatuscrinites pruemiensis n. Gen. Et nov. sp. (Crinoidea, Inadunata) - A new Crinoid family from the Middle Devon of the Eifel (Germany, Rhenish Slate Mountains), advance copy 2006 (PDF; 676 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Wolburg, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Reppen
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1976