August Buxtorf
August Buxtorf (born December 16, 1877 in Basel ; † March 2, 1969 there , reformed , resident in Basel) was a Swiss geologist .
Life
August Buxtorf came to Basel on December 16, 1877, the son of the businessman Friedrich Buxtorf and Ernestine née Rupp. Buxtorf first studied botany , then geology at the Universities of Basel , Grenoble and Göttingen , before receiving his doctorate in Basel in 1900 with Carl Schmidt in Basel .
Subsequently he worked as a petroleum geologist in Asia and Egypt . Subsequently, Buxtorf taught first as a private lecturer from 1907 , from 1914 as a full professor at the University of Basel, of which he was rector in 1940 . There he organized the new Institute for Geology and Paleontology , headed it until 1944 and trained numerous students who then worked all over the world. In 1932 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy .
To this end, August Buxtorf acted as president and tireless driver of the Swiss Geological Commission from 1926 to 1953 , for example in drawing up the general geological map of Switzerland, the Swiss Society for Natural Research.
August Buxtorf married Emma, the daughter of the high school teacher Achilles Burckhardt-von Salis, in 1905 . He died on March 2, 1969, a few months after turning 91 in Basel.
In 1950 he became an honorary member of the Upper Rhine Geological Association (OGV) . In 1957 he received the Leopold von Buch badge .
Act
August Buxtorf's research in the Jura led him in 1907 to the well-known hypothesis about the origin of the folding of this chain. In addition, he also studied the geology of Central Switzerland and Ticino and wrote numerous papers in applied geology, including tunneling .
literature
- Marc Weidmann: Buxtorf, August. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Negotiations of the Swiss Natural Research Society, 1969, pp. 263–265
Web links
- Literature by and about August Buxtorf in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member entry by August Buxtorf at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 24, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Buxtorf, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 2nd 1969 |
| Place of death | Basel |