Achilles Andreae
Philipp Victor Achilles Andreae (born November 14, 1859 in Frankfurt am Main , † January 17, 1905 in Hildesheim ) was a German geologist and paleontologist .
Life
Achilles Andreae is the son of the Frankfurt banker Achilles Andreae (1820–1888) and his second wife Alharda geb. Freiin von der Borch (1836–1917). His uncle was the linguist and religious researcher Hermann Victor Andreae (1817–1889). Andreae attended the model school in Frankfurt and studied from 1879 in Strasbourg, Berlin and Bonn. In 1883 he received his doctorate in Strasbourg. phil. and the following year he obtained the venia docendi in Heidelberg with his habilitation thesis “ Contribution to the knowledge of the Alsatian tertiary. Part II: The Oligocene Layers in Alsace ”.
He became professor extr. with teaching position for palaeontology and geology and in 1894 director of the Roemer Museum in Hildesheim. His most important works appeared on the geology and paleontology of the Tertiary in Silesia and Alsace . For the museum in Hildesheim he created scientific guides through the collections. Since his youth he was closely associated with the Senckenberg Natural Research Society in Frankfurt.
Fonts
- Contribution to the knowledge of the Alsatian Tertiary . Strasbourg 1883–1884 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.14035
- About the artificial imitation of the geyser phenomenon . Stuttgart 1893
- The occurrence of Ophiuren in the Triassic around Heidelberg . In: Communications from the Großherzoglich Badische Landesanstalt, Third Volume, Carl Winter's University Bookstore, Heidelberg 1899, 1893: pp. 1–10
- The brachiopods of the Rhät von Malsch . In: Communications from the Großherzoglich Badische Landesanstalt, Third Volume, Carl Winter's University Bookstore, Heidelberg 1899, 1893: pp. 12–17
literature
- Sabine Hock : Achilles Andreae in the Frankfurter Personenlexikon (revised online version), as well as in: Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 , p. 24 .
- Werner Quenstedt : Andreae, Achilles. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 281 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Annual report , (Dr. Achill Andreae) in: Report on the Senckenberg Natural Research Society in Frankfurt am Main 1905 , pp. 11-13.
Web links
- Literature by and about Achilles Andreae in the catalog of the German National Library
- Andreae, Philipp Victor Achill. Hessian biography. (As of April 13, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Andreae, Achilles in the Frankfurt personal dictionary
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Andreae, Achilles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Andreae, Philipp Victor Achilles (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geologist and paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 17, 1905 |
| Place of death | Hildesheim |