Bernhard Hauff
Bernhard Hauff (born July 4, 1866 in Holzmaden ; † July 10, 1950 there ) was a German fossil collector and preparator .
Life
Hauff was the son of a quarry owner and chemist who wanted to distill oil from the shale . As a child he was interested in the fossils found in the slate. He learned the preparation as an autodidact . From 1883 he first prepared an ichthyosaur with soft tissue outlines. He worked closely with Eberhard Fraas , the senior curator at the Natural History Museum in Stuttgart .
Hauff has become known as an outstanding taxidermist of the fossil finds in the posidonia slate from Holzmaden , especially for the ichthyosaurs , which found their way into many collections and museums around the world. He is the founder of the Urwelt Museum Hauff in Holzmaden, which was then expanded by his son Bernhard Hauff junior (1912–1990). The first museum was built in 1936/37.
He had been a member of the Paleontological Society since 1912 and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Tübingen in 1921 . In 1936 he became an honorary member of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg.
Hauff is related to the writer Wilhelm Hauff and the porcelain painter Philipp Petri .
literature
- Georg Wagner: Hauff, Bernhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 84 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Giovanni Pinna, Dieter Meischner (editor) European Fossil Deposits , European Paleontological Association, Springer Verlag, 2000, p. 138. As well as Werner K. Weidert (editor) Classical Findings of Paleontology , Volume 2, Goldschneck Verlag 1990, p. 112, article by Adolf Seilacher on Holzmaden
- ↑ urweltmuseum.de - Hauff . Retrieved January 26, 2013
- ^ Palaeontological Journal 1, Issue 1, March 1914
- ^ Honorary members of the Society for Natural History in Württemberg
- ↑ Excursion Holzmaden, CO2 walks, Science Center Augsburg
- ^ NDB: Hauff, Bernhard
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hauff, Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German taxidermist and fossil collector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Holzmaden |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1950 |
| Place of death | Holzmaden |