Alexander Tornquist

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Alexander Tornquist (born June 18, 1868 in Hamburg , † November 1, 1944 in Graz ) was a German geologist .

Life

Tornquist was appointed professor of geology and palaeontology at the University of Strasbourg in 1900 and from there in 1907 accepted a position at the University of Königsberg . From 1914 to 1933 he was professor of mineralogy and geology at the Graz University of Technology and temporarily also its rector.

In August 1912 he was one of the 34 founding members of the Paleontological Society .

The Tornquist Zone in the Baltic Sea between Northern Germany and Scandinavia and the Paleozoic Tornquist Ocean are named after him.

His daughter Erika married the set designer Caspar Neher in Graz in 1923 .

Fonts

  • The Gypskeuper in the vicinity of Göttingen. Inaugural dissertation, Georg-Augusts-Universität Göttingen, printed by Louis Hofer, Göttingen 1892
  • New contributions to the geology and paleontology of the area around Recoaro and Schio (in Vicentin), I. contribution: Die nodosen Ceratiten. Journal of the German Geological Society, 50, Berlin 1898, pp. 209–233, plates VIII – X
  • New contributions to the geology and paleontology of the area around Recoaro and Schio (in Vicentin), II. Contribution: The Subnodosus layers. Journal of the German Geological Society, 50, Berlin 1898, pp. 637–694, panel XX – XXIII
  • New contributions to the geology and paleontology of the area around Recoaro and Schio (in Vicentin), III. Contribution: The Spitz-Kalk. Journal of the German Geological Society, 51, Berlin 1899, pp. 341–377, panel XVIII – XX
  • Some remarks about the occurrence of Ceratites subnodosus nov. var. romanicus in Dobruja. New yearbook for mineralogy, geology and palaeontology, year 1900, Stuttgart 1900, pp. 173–180, panel VIII
  • The Vicentine Triassic Mountains. A geognostic monograph. 195 pages, Schweizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung (E. Nägele), Stuttgart 1901
  • The Daonelles of the German Muschelkalk. New yearbook for mineralogy, geology and palaeontology, year 1903, Stuttgart 1903, pp. 83–92, panel I
  • The carbonic granite bar between the oceanic Triassic Sea and the European Triassic Inland Sea. The evolution of the Triassic on Corsica . New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geology and Palaeontology, 20, Stuttgart 1905, pp. 466–507
  • Geology of East Prussia (1910)
  • The nodosen ceratites from Olesa in Catalonia. Meeting reports of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Math and science class. - Abt. I, Vol. 125, Issue 3–4, Vienna 1916, pp. 229–250, 1 plate
  • Basics of general geology (1916)

See also

literature

  • J. Znosko, A. Guterch: Deep engineering and tectonics of the Tesseire-Tornquist zone. In: Journal of Applied Geology . 33, No. 8, 1987, ISSN  0044-2259 , pp. 213-218.
  • Roland Walter et al .: Geology of Central Europe . 5th completely revised edition. Schweizerbarth'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-510-65149-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Palaeontological Journal 1, Issue 1, March 1914
  2. ↑ According to NDB: Caspar Neher
personal data
SURNAME Tornquist, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1944
Place of death Graz