Émile Haug
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Gustave Émile Haug (born June 19, 1861 in Drusenheim , Département Bas-Rhin , † August 28, 1927 in Niederbronn ) was a French geologist and paleontologist.
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Haug has been collecting fossils since his youth. He attended the Protestant school in what was then the German Empire belonging Strasbourg and studied at the University of Strasbourg geology and paleontology at Ernst Wilhelm Benecke , in which he ammonites of the genus Harpoceras 1884 doctorate was. From 1885 Haug worked as a taxidermist at the University's Geological and Paleontological Institute .
As an opponent of the annexation to the German Empire, he went to France in 1887, where he again obtained a licentiate degree, joined Edmond Hébert's Laboratory for Geology at the Sorbonne in 1888 and received his doctorate there again in 1891, with a thesis on the subalpine chains between Gap and Digne. He became Maître de conférences at the Sorbonne and from 1900 as the successor to Ernest Munier-Chalmas (1843-1903) professor. In 1902 he became president of the Société géologique de France.
Haug dealt in particular with the geology and tectonics of the western Alps and expanded the geosynclinal theory of mountain formation (for example the Alps). For example, he mapped in the area of Toulon (geological map 1: 50,000)
He had been a member of the Académie des Sciences since 1917, succeeding Alfred Lacroix .
Fonts (selection)
- Traité de Géologie . A. Colin, Paris 1907/11 (2 volumes in four parts, volume 1 ).
- Les géosynclinaux et les aires continentales. Contribution a l'étude des transgressions et des regressions maritimes . In: Bulletin Société géologique de France, Series 3 , Volume 28 (1900), pp. 617-711.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haug, Émile |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Haug, Gustave Émile |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Drusenheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 28, 1927 |
| Place of death | Niederbronn |