August Denckmann

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August Denckmann as a student in Göttingen in 1883

Heinrich Wilhelm Martin August Denckmann (born May 6, 1860 in Salzgitter , † March 7, 1925 in Siegburg ) was a German geologist and university professor .

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August Denckmann was born in Salzgitter as the son of the local pastor and fossil collector Friedrich Ludolf Denckmann . After he had received his first training through this, he attended the Andreanum grammar school in Hildesheim .

After graduating from high school in 1882, he went to Göttingen to study geology at the Georg-August University . There he became a member of the connection and later fraternity Holzminda . After graduating, he worked for a short time as assistant to Emanuel Kayser at the geological institute of the University of Marburg . In 1883 he had already become an assistant geologist at the Prussian State Geological Institute , of which he was a permanent employee from 1888 to 1920. In 1898 he became a district geologist, in 1901 a state geologist and in 1906 he became a professor with a teaching position at the Bergakademie Berlin . In 1920 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Every year with the onset of the cold season, Denckmann returned after the summer research work in the Rhenish Slate Mountains with his wife Clara, nee. Funke and the only child Volkmar returned to Berlin, the family's main residence, and worked there.

Denckmann's work on the geology of the Harz , Sauerland and Siegerland as well as his research in the Kellerwald were groundbreaking . His practical geological work was of enormous importance , especially for mining .

Publications

  • About the geognostic conditions of the area around Dörnten north of Goslar, with special consideration of the fauna of the upper Lias / with an appendix about the construction of the keel of dorsocavate falcifers. Göttingen 1886, dissertation. ( Digitized version )
  • The geological construction of the cellar forest. Brief explanations of the geological overview map of the Kellerwald 1: 100,000. Berlin 1901.
  • New observations on the tectonic nature of the Siegen iron stone entrances. Berlin 1912-1918.
  • Geological ground plan and profile pictures as explanations of the older tectonics of the Siegerland. Berlin 1914.

Memberships

August Denckmann became a member of the Paleontological Society in the founding year 1912 .

honors and awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Ebel : The register of the Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen 1837-1900. Hildesheim 1974. (No. 60358, matriculated on October 25, 1882)
  2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 67.
  3. ↑ Volkmar Denckmann was professor of biology at the Pedagogical University of Berlin until 1973; see: Contributions to the history of the University of Education Berlin by Gerd Henrich (ed.), Colloquium Verlag Berlin 1980, chapter: Volkmar Denckmann (1905-1979) by Dietrich Müller-Doblies, p. 77f
  4. ^ Palaeontological Journal 1, Issue 1, March 1914
personal data
SURNAME Denckmann, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Denckmann, Heinrich Wilhelm Martin August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzgitter
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1925
Place of death Siegburg