Carl Speyer (paleontologist)

Carl Wilhelm Speyer (born December 3, 1877 in Mannheim , † May 18, 1927 in Heidelberg ) was a German historian and paleontologist .

Life

Carl Speyer was the son of the Mannheim director of the Badische Bank, Jacob Speyer (1831–1907), and his wife Henriette (1845–1926), née Hirsch. He studied at the universities of Heidelberg and Munich and was on December 1, 1910 in Munich with a thesis on the corals of the Kelheimer law doctorate . He then worked as an assistant at the mineralogical-geological institute of the ducal technical university in Braunschweig, at the geological institute in Munich and as a volunteer research assistant at the Heidelberg geological institute.

As a historian, his focus was on publications related to the city of Mannheim, and he published numerous articles on this in the Mannheim history sheets. In paleontology, his work on the corals of the Kelheim Jura and the north-west German upper Jura are of greater importance.

Carl Speyer, who had given up his Jewish faith in 1908 without joining any other denomination, married his wife Elisabeth (1888–1941), née Loeb, in Munich on May 3, 1911. The marriage was divorced on March 17, 1922 in Munich.

Carl Speyer was buried in the Heidelberg Bergfriedhof . His wife, who had resumed her maiden name after the divorce, was deported to Riga on November 20, 1941 and murdered.

Fonts

• The corals of the Kelheim Jura . In: Palaeontographica, 59, Stuttgart 1913, pp. 193–250 ( digitized version )
• The corals of the northwestern German Upper Jura . In: Negotiations of the Natural History-Medical Association of Heidelberg, New Series, 15, Heidelberg 1926, pp. 235–281

literature

• Gaston Mayer : Carl Wilhelm SPEYER (1877–1927), a Mannheim historian and paleontologist. In: Communications from the Baden Regional Association for Natural History and Nature Conservation, New Series, 15, 2, Freiburg im Breisgau 1991, pp. 469–473 ( digitized version )

Web links

• Speyer, Carl Wilhelm in the German biography