Bernhard Ziegler (paleontologist)

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Bernhard Ziegler (born September 4, 1929 in Stuttgart ; † July 17, 2013 there ) was a German paleontologist who was director of the Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart for many years .

Life

Ziegler graduated from the Korntaler Gymnasium in Stuttgart in 1949 and studied geology and palaeontology at the University of Tübingen with a degree in geology in 1955. In the same year he received his doctorate under Helmut Hölder (stratigraphy of the Malm Delta in Swabia and its ammonite fauna). He then worked as an assistant in Tübingen and from 1957 with Emil Kuhn-Schnyder at the University of Zurich , where he qualified as a professor in 1962 (The ammonite genus Aulacostephanus in the Upper Jurassic). In 1965 he went to the Technical University of Berlin , where he completed his habilitation again and in 1966 became an associate professor of palaeontology. In 1969 he became a full professor of paleontology at the University of Stuttgart and Director of the Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart and organized equal to a campaign that outsourced in Ludwigsburg since the Second World War, is threatened by decay collection pieces, including the famous plateosaur from the Triassic of Trossingen in to present a new museum building. In 1973 the dinosaurs were presented again for the first time in the renovated armory in Ludwigsburg, an offshoot in Rosenstein Castle was added and in 1985 the new museum building in Stuttgart ( Museum am Löwentor ) was opened. In 1994 he retired and the chair for paleontology in Stuttgart was not filled.

In 1991 he became an honorary member of the Palaeontological Society and in 1994 an honorary member of the Society for Natural History in Württemberg .

From 1969 to 1982 he was co-editor of Geobios . A German-language standard work on paleontology comes from him.

He has been married since 1964 and has two daughters.

Fonts

  • The Swabian Lindwurm, Theiss, Stuttgart 1986 (about the plateosaurs)
  • Brief history of palaeontology, Stuttgart contributions to natural history, Series C, Volume 19, 1984, Stuttgart Museum for Natural History, pp. 1–32
  • with H. Siegel Das Museum am Löwentor , Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History, C, Volume 21, 1985, pp. 3-39
  • Guide through the Museum at the Löwentor , Stuttgart contributions to natural history, C, Volume 27, 1988, pp. 1-100
  • Introduction to paleobiology. 3 volumes (Volume 1 General Paleontology, Volume 2,3 Special Paleontology), Stuttgart, Schweizerbart, 1972, 1983, 1998
  • Paleontology - from life in prehistoric times, Stuttgart, Schweizerbart 2008
  • with Max Urlichs , Günter Bechly Color Atlas Fossils , Stuttgart, Ulmer 2003
  • with Max Urlichs, Rupert Wild : The Posidonia Slate and Its Fossils , Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History, State Museum for Natural History, Stuttgart 1994
  • with Urlichs, Wild: Fossils from Holzmaden , Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History, State Museum for Natural History, Stuttgart 1986

literature

  • Max Urlich's Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Bernhard Ziegler on his 65th birthday , in Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History, Series B, No. 201, 1994
  • Max Urlichs, Günter Schweigert, obituary in Neues Jb. Geolog. Paleont. Verh., 274, 2014, 121–125

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Unearthed in several extensive campaigns from 1911 to 1932 under Eberhard Fraas , Friedrich von Huene and Reinhold Seemann (1888–1975)
  2. ^ Honorary members of the Society for Natural History in Württemberg

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personal data
SURNAME Ziegler, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 2013
Place of death Stuttgart