Carl Renz

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Carl Renz (born June 3, 1876 in Durlach , † February 16, 1951 in Athens ) was a Swiss geologist and paleontologist . He was a professor at the University of Wroclaw .

Renz studied natural sciences in Breslau , Munich , Paris and Zurich and received his doctorate in 1902 (contributions to knowledge of indium and gallium ). In Breslau he was a student of Fritz Frech . In 1909 he became a professor in Breslau, after completing his habilitation there in the same year (on the geology of Greece). Renz is known for work on the geology of Greece.

In addition to Greece and the eastern Mediterranean and Switzerland (1914–1924, Lias des Ticino ), Renz was on research trips to Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan , Dagestan and Portugal.

In 1948 Renz examined water supply projects for the Greek government and was most recently involved in the geological survey. Renz put on extensive fossil collections from Greece and published a. a. about ammonites and brachiopods from Greece.

In August 1912, Renz was one of the 34 founding members of the Paleontological Society . The University of Athens awarded Renz an honorary doctorate and Georg II the Phoenix Order .

His son Otto Renz (1906–1992) was also a geologist.

Fonts

  • About halobias and daonelles from Greece along with Asian comparisons. In: New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology, year 1906, Volume I, Plate III, Stuttgart 1906, pp. 27–40
  • The Mesozoic Faunas of Greece 1: the Triadic Faunas of Argolida, Palaeontographica, 58, 1911, 1–104, Archives
  • New Greek Triassic Ammonites. Negotiations of the Natural Research Society in Basel, Volume XXXIII, Plate VI - VIII, Basel 1922, pp. 218–255
  • Brachiopods of the southern Swiss and western Greek Lias, Treatises of the Swiss Palaeontological Society, Volume 52, 1932
  • The tectonics of the Greek mountains, Athens, Akademia Athenon 1940
  • with Manfred Reichel: Contributions to the stratigraphy and paleontology of the Eastern Mediterranean Upper Palaeozoic and its classification in the Greek mountain system, part 1,2, Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, 38, 1945, pp. 212-313, digitized

literature

  • Short obituary in Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, 1951, report of the 30th annual meeting of the Swiss Paleontological Society
  • Article in Vierhaus (Ed.), Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie, Saur, de Gruyter
  • Georg Boner : Carl Renz (1876–1951). In: Argovia , annual journal of the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau, vol. 68–69, 1958, p. 616 ( digitized version ).

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References and comments

  1. ^ Palaeontological Journal 1, Issue 1, March 1914
personal data
SURNAME Renz, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Durlach
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1951
Place of death Athens