Andreas Braun (paleontologist)

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Andreas Braun (* 1960 ) is a German paleontologist and private lecturer at the Steinmann Institute for Geology at the University of Bonn .

Brown studied geology, paleontology and biology in Marburg and Liverpool with a diploma in 1987. He was 1989 Strahlentierchen (radiolarians) of the Lower Carboniferous PhD a scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation . In 1990/91 he received a postdoctoral fellowship from the DFG and from 1991 he was an assistant at the Institute for Paleontology at the University of Bonn. In 1996, he completed his habilitation there on Devonian and Carboniferous arthropods preserved with exoskeleton . In 1997 he became senior assistant and university lecturer in Bonn.

In 2000 he and Günter Schweigert received the Friedrich von Alberti Prize for his services to research into radiolarians, terrestrial microarthropods and phosphated plant remains from the ancient world, as well as for popularizing palaeontology and the development of new laboratory methods .

Braun studied radiolarians of the Paleozoic Era with application in stratigraphy .

For example, he contributes to the popularization of paleontology as a research assistant at the Gondwana Praehistorium in Saarland. In this role he also dug for dinosaurs in Patagonia (South America) with Rodolfo Coria . In addition, he and Armyna Rätz head the Geologikum & Microscope in Mendig (as the successor to the former Maria Laach Natural History Museum). He also wrote children's books on science.

He led the paleontological excavations in the Devonian during the construction of the new Aegidienberg tunnel for Deutsche Bahn.

Fonts

  • with Thomas Mörs (ed.): Geology and palaeontology in the Devonian and Tertiary of the ICE route in the Siebengebirge, Bonn, Natural History Association of the Rhineland and Westphalia 2001
  • Radiolarians from the Lower Carboniferous Germany, Courier Research Institute Senckenberg, Volume 133, 1990, pp. 1-143
  • The application of radiolarian biochronology to rocks of the Thuringian Lower Carboniferous, results and possibilities, Geol. Jb. Hessen, 121, 1993, pp. 11-16
  • Occurrence, investigation methods and importance of animal cuticulae in carbonaceous sedimentary rocks of the Devonian and Carboniferous, Palaeontographica, Volume 245, 1997, pp. 1–156.
  • The carbon: Not only hard coal, Biology in our time, Volume 32, 2002, No. 5, p. 286
  • In the Eifel Coral Sea: Excursion to the shores of the tropical Eifel Strait, and (with Rolf Goßmann, Georg Heumann): The Vinxtbach Valley: sea scorpions, tank fish and nude ferns; Life forms on the coast of the Old-Red continent, in Wighart von Koenigswald (Ed.), GeoRallye, Bonn 2007
  • with Winfried Haas : The Eifelkalkmulden von Hillesheim, Gerolstein and Prüm, excursion guide, 67th annual meeting of the Paleontological Society 1997
  • Arthropods of the Upper Carboniferous coal forests, in: Wighart von Koenigswald, Wilhelm Meyer (Ed.): Geological history in the Rhineland - fossils and rocks from 400 million years, Munich: Pfeil 1994

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Short biography in Biology in Our Time, Volume 32, 2002, p. 293
  2. ^ Laudation, Friedrich von Alberti Prize
  3. ^ Gondwana Museum
  4. ↑ Geologikum in Mendig shows: Nature is so exciting, Rhein-Zeitung April 27, 2013
  5. ↑ Siebengebirgsmuseum
personal data
SURNAME Braun, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960