Alfred Eisenack
Alfred Eisenack (born May 13, 1891 in Altfelde , West Prussia , † April 19, 1982 in Reutlingen ) was a German paleontologist . He was a pioneer in micropalaeontology and palynology . His botanical-mycological author's abbreviation is " Eisenack ".
Life
Eisenack went to school in Elbing and studied from 1911 at the University of Jena and from 1913 at the University of Königsberg and had started a doctoral thesis with Sven Tornquist on the stratigraphy of the Portlandium on Lake Garda when his studies were interrupted by the First World War. He volunteered and after the Battle of Lodz was taken prisoner by the Russians in Chita in Siberia . There he was able to train with another prisoner-of-war geologist (from Pontoppidan), but his return home was delayed even after the armistice. He later had fond memories of this time, worked for a time as a chemist and returned to Germany by ship via Vladivostok in 1920 . He initially continued to study geology with Karl Erich Andrée in Königsberg, but then passed his teaching examination and was a teacher at the Bessel-Oberrealschule in Königsberg from 1925 to 1940, where he taught natural sciences and mathematics. In addition, he dealt with microfossils from Scandinavian debris of the Silurian and Ordovician . He began to publish about it from 1930. In 1942 he became a lecturer in Königsberg. In 1945 he was again captured by the Soviets in East Prussia. After his return he became an adjunct professor at the University of Tübingen in 1951 , where he was initially a full-time teacher at the Oberreutlinger Gewerbeschule in Reutlingen . In Tübingen he was very active scientifically and had several doctoral students.
In micropaleontology, he introduced the term chitinozoa (presumably fossilized egg shells of paleozoic marine organisms that left no skeletal remains) and melanosclerite and examined fossil hystricospheres, dinoflagellates and graptolites belonging to plankton .
He has been an honorary member of the Paleontological Society since 1973 .
literature
- New yearbook for geology and palaeontology: MONTHS, p. 629, E. Schweizerbart., 1982
- Hans Gocht, William Sarjeant: Pathfinder in Palynology: Alfred Eisenack (1891-1982) , Micropaleontology, Volume 29, 1983, pp. 470-477
- William Sarjeant: As chimney sweepers, come to dust: a history of palynology up to 1970 , in David Oldroyd (Ed.): The earth inside out: some major contributions to geology in the twentieth century , The Geological Society London, Special Publications No. 192, 1992
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Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Alfred Eisenack at the IPNI
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Hölder , Wolf von Engelhardt : Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology at the University of Tübingen , JCB Mohr 1977, p. 160
- ↑ Website on Chitinozoen ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eisenack, Alfred |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eisenack (botanical author abbreviation) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altfelde |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 19, 1982 |
| Place of death | Reutlingen |