August Tobler

August Tobler (born April 29, 1872 in Basel , † November 23, 1929 in Huttingen ) was a Swiss geologist and paleontologist.

Live and act

His father was a secondary school teacher and he was a citizen of Thal. Tobler studied geology and paleontology at the University of Basel and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1890 . In 1895 he received his doctorate (his inaugural dissertation, published in 1897, was on the Jura in the south-east Rhine plain) and from 1899 was a private lecturer in Basel. From 1900 to 1914 he worked as a petroleum geologist in addition to Europe, including in Sumatra and Java (partly on behalf of the Dutch Mining Authority), India and Trinidad. In addition, from 1894 to 1929 he worked as a freelancer in the collections of the Natural History Museum Basel, which he supervised scientifically and also expanded. In 1918 he became a member of the Museum Commission in Basel and head of the geological collection.

In 1921 he was one of the founders of the Swiss Paleontological Society and from 1926 to 1928 its president. From 1920 to 1927 he was editor of Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae . Tobler dealt with the stratigraphy of the Tertiary and Mesozoic Era of the region around Basel, but also with Lake Lucerne and the geology of Italy and France and Sumatra.

Fonts

• On the structure of the Mesozoic sediments on the northern edge of the Aar massif, Birkhäuser 1897
• Tabular compilation of the sequence of layers in the area around Basel, Basel: Lendorff 1905
• Contributions to the geology and paleontology of Sumatra, The Hague: Mouton 1921

Web links

• Peter Müller-Grieshaber: August Tobler. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Entry in Basel city book