Adolf von Koenen

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Adolf von Koenen (born March 21, 1837 in Potsdam , † May 5, 1915 in Göttingen ) was a German geologist and paleontologist .

Life

His father was Oberregierungsrat Otto Moritz Wilhelm von Koenen and von Koenen went to school in Berlin, Schulpforta and Breslau. In the fall of 1858 Adolf left the Berlin Friedrichs-Gymnasium as a high school graduate. First he did a practical apprenticeship as a miner in preparation for senior service in mining in the Wettin coal district, in the Mansfeld copper slate mining and on the Staßfurt saltworks. He then studied mining in Berlin, but then switched to geology and palaeontology under the influence of Ernst Beyrich , where he later found his main field of work, palaeontology and stratigraphy of the tertiary. After study trips through Belgium, England and France, he received his doctorate from Helmstedt on the Lower Oligocene in 1865. He completed his habilitation in Marburg with Wilhelm Dunker . In 1873 he was appointed associate professor and in 1878 full professor in Marburg. In Marburg he gave lectures on geology, mineralogy and paleontology. In 1881 he went to Göttingen as a full professor of geology and successor to Karl von Seebach . He was a secret mountain ridge. In 1907 he resigned from his chair, but remained scientifically active. Von Koenen had many important students in Göttingen, where he only taught geology and palaeontology.

In addition to regional geology and tectonics, especially from Lower Saxony and paleontology (over the most varied of epochs from the Devonian to the Quaternary), he was also active as an applied geologist (potash mining, hydrogeology, agriculture such as a soil map of the area north of Hildesheim).

In 1881 the Göttingen Society of Science elected him a full member of its mathematical-physical class. In 1883 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1904 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and in 1907 of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .

He was an honorary doctor of the TH Hannover.

family

He married Lavinia Konopacki from Bromberg on August 31, 1867 in Aachen , who died in 1897.

Fonts

  • About the oligocene tertiary classes of the Magdeburg area . In: Zeitschr. d. German Geol. Ges., 1863, pp. 611-618
  • Fauna of the lower oligocene tertiary strata of Helmstädt ; Berl. 1865
  • About Conorbis and Cryptoconus ; Marburg 1867
  • Contributions to the knowledge of the mollusc fauna of the northern German Tertiary Mountains ; Kassel 1867
  • Contributions to the knowledge of the crinoids of the shell limestone , Abh. Kgl. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen, Volume 34, 1887, pp. 1-42
  • The marine middle oligocene of northern Germany and its mollusc fauna ; 1867-68
  • About the lower oligocene tertiary fauna of Arolsen ; Mosk. 1868
  • About the Ober-Oligocän von Wiepke . In: Archives of the Association of Friends of Natural History in Mecklenburg, 22nd year, Güstrow 1869
  • The Miocan of Northern Germany and its mollusc fauna ; Kassel 1872
  • Kulm fauna from Herborn ; Stuttgart. 1879
  • About a paleocene fauna from Copenhagen ; Götting. 1885
  • The North German Lower Oligocene and its Mollusc Fauna , Berlin 1889–1894, 7 series (= Treatises on the special geological map of Prussia and the Thuringian states , Volume X, 1–7)
  • About Lower Cretaceous fossils on the banks of the Mungo in Cameroon . Dep. Kgl. Ges. Wiss. Goettingen. Math.-Phys. Kl. New Series, Volume 1 (1) (1897): 1-48
  • About Lower Cretaceous fossils on the banks of the Mungo in Cameroon . Dep. Kgl. Ges. Wiss. Goettingen. Math.-Phys. Kl. New Series, Volume 1 (1) (1898): 49-65
  • The ammonitides of the north German Neocom (Valanginien, Hauterivien, Barremien and Aptien) . Dep. Kgl. Prussia. Geol. Landesanstalt and Bergakad. 24 (1902): 1-567
  • About the lower chalk of Heligoland and its ammonites . Dep. Kgl. Ges. Wiss. Goettingen. Math.-Phys. Kl. New Series, III2 (1904): 37–63

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personal data
SURNAME Koenen, Adolf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1915
Place of death Goettingen