Axel von Hillebrandt
Axel von Hillebrandt (born April 12, 1933 in Tilsit ) is a German palaeontologist and university professor at the TU Berlin .
Hillebrandt was an assistant at the University of Munich from 1959 to 1962 , where he received his doctorate from Richard Dehm in 1960 (The Paleocene and its foraminifera fauna in the Reichenhall and Salzburg basins), from 1962 assistant at the TU Berlin, where he qualified as a professor in 1965 (Foraminifera -Stratigraphy in the Old Tertiary of Zumaya (Guipuzcoa Province, NW Spain) and a comparison with other Tethys areas) and was a professor until his retirement in 1998.
He deals with ammonites specifically from the Lower Jurassic and the Jurassic of South America, their taxonomy, evolution, biochronology and paleogeography. He also dealt with micropalaeontology .
In 2014 he became an honorary member of the Paleontological Society , of which he was president from 1995 to 1997.
He is a member of the International Sub-Commission for Jura Stratigraphy and the German Jura Sub-Commission with voting rights.
References and comments
- ↑ Published in the treatises of Bayr. Akad. Wiss., NF, Volume 106, 1962, pdf
- ↑ Entry in Internat. Jura Subcommittee ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ German Jura Sub-Commission, members
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hillebrandt, Axel von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sovetsk (Kaliningrad) |