Carl Christian Gottsche

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Carl Christian Gottsche (born March 1, 1855 in Altona , † October 11, 1909 in Hamburg ) was a German geologist and paleontologist .

Life

Gottsche tombstone ,
Ohlsdorf cemetery, Hamburg

Carl Gottsche was the son of the doctor and botanist Karl Moritz Gottsche . He studied geology in Würzburg and Munich. It had its first publication in 1875 (sketches and contributions to the geognosy of Hamburg). In 1878 he received his doctorate summa cum laude (on Jurassic fossils from the Argentine Cordillera). He then worked as an assistant in Kiel, where he qualified as a professor in 1880 (Die Sedimentärgeschiebe of the Province of Schleswig-Holstein). In 1881 he traveled to Japan, where he taught geology at the University of Tokyo. In 1884 he traveled to Korea. In 1886 he was curator at the Natural History Museum in Hamburg. In 1900 he received the title of professor and in 1907 he became director of the Mineralogical-Geological Institute.

In 1892 he took a leave of absence and mapped the terminal moraines of the Ice Age glaciations in Schleswig-Holstein. The overview map on a scale of 1: 750,000 was published in 1897. The map is out of date and sometimes indicates the ice edge location too far to the north, but his treatise contains descriptions of no longer existing sites, such as photos of bed load fields during the construction of the Northeast Sea Canal.

Carl Christian Gottsche was buried in the Gottsche / Wolter grave complex on the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg, grid square AD 19 (southwest of Chapel 7).

literature

  • Wilhelm Wolff, obituary in the monthly reports of the German Geological Society, Volume 61, 1909, p. 417
  • Johannes Petersen, memorial speech on Gottsche, Mitt. Geogr.Ges. Hamburg, Volume 24, 1909

Fonts

  • The terminal moraines and the marine diluvium of Schleswig-Holstein, Part 1 (The terminal moraines), Mitt.Geogr. Ges. Hamburg, Volume 13, 1897, Part 2 (The marine Diluvium), Volume 14, 1898
  • Hamburg's Underground, Festschrift 73rd Assembly of German Naturalists and Doctors 1901

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Ehlers The Ice Age , Spektrum Verlag, 2011, p. 103
  2. ↑ Barbara Leisner, Heiko KL Schulze, Ellen Thormann: The Hamburg main cemetery Ohlsdorf. History and tombs , Verlag Hans Christians, Hamburg 1990, page 87, cat. 530.
personal data
SURNAME Gottsche, Carl Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1909
Place of death Hamburg