Anselm Windhausen

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Anselm Windhausen (born April 20, 1882 in Lingen , † April 2, 1932 in Buenos Aires ) was a German-Argentinian geologist .

Live and act

Windhausen went to the Josephinum high school in Hildesheim and studied natural sciences and especially geology and palaeontology in Berlin, Munich and Göttingen. His teachers included Ferdinand von Richthofen , Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen , Karl Alfred von Zittel , Wilhelm von Branca and Adolf von Koenen . His first publications were about the unicorn cave in the Harz Mountains, where he was involved in excavations. In 1907 he received his doctorate in Göttingen (The geological conditions of the mountain ranges west and south-west of Hildesheim) and was then custodian for geology and palaeontology in the Provincial Museum in Hanover (today Lower Saxony State Museum ). In 1909 he emigrated to Argentina, where he worked as a geologist for the Ministry of Agriculture. He organized mineral exhibitions for Argentina at the 1910 World's Fair in Buenos Aires and at industrial and trade fairs in Europe. In 1912/13 he discovered potential oil fields in North Patagonia (Plaza Huincul field). In 1916 he examined the Jurassic-Cretaceous border in the province of Neuquén in North Patagonia and fossils from this period (he introduced the Jagüel strata into stratigraphy). From 1919 he was officially employed in the state oil exploration (the later state oil company YPF ), but retired in 1923 due to differences of opinion over the prospects of finding oil in Patagonia and went back to the department of mining and geology. From 1926 he was honorary professor at the University of Córdoba .

He drew Walther Gothan's attention to the petrified forest of Jaramillo and did research with the South African Alexander Du Toit about common geological structures between South Africa and Argentina ( Gondwana hypothesis). In 1924 he published an article about it ("The Birth of Patagonia"). As part of the Argentine Geographic Society (GAEA), he worked on the German Meteor Research Tour ( German Atlantic Expedition ). His two-volume work on the geology of Argentina is considered a standard work.

Anselm Windhausen became a member of the German Geological Society in 1903 and a member of the Paleontological Society in the founding year 1912

In 1920 he became an Argentine citizen. In 1922 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in Cordoba. In 1928 he received the Gustav-Nachtigall-Medal of the Berlin Geographical Society and in 1935 posthumously the national Argentine science award.

Fonts

  • Geología Argentina, 2 volumes, Buenos Aires: Peuser, 1929, 1931
  • Contribución al conocimiento geológico de los Territorios del Río Negro y Neuquén, Anales del Ministerio de Agricultura, Sección Geología y Minería, Publicación 10, 1914, pp. 1-60
  • Líneas generales de la estratigrafía del Neocomiano en la Cordillera Argentina, Academia Nacional de Ciencias, Córdoba, Boletín 27, 1918, pp. 167-320
  • The problem of the Cretaceous / Tertiary boundary in South America and the stratigraphic position of the San Jorge Formation in Patagonia. American Journal of Science. Series 4, Volume 45, 1918

literature

References and comments

  1. ↑ Published in the communications of the Roemer Museum in Hildesheim in 1907
  2. ^ Membership directory of the German Geological Society March 1921
  3. ^ Palaeontological Journal 1, Issue 1, March 1914
personal data
SURNAME Windhausen, Anselm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Argentine geologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Lingen
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1932
Place of death Buenos Aires