Carl Struckmann

Karl Eberhard Friedrich Struckmann (also: Carl Eberhard Friedrich Struckmann ; born March 16, 1833 in Osnabrück , † December 23, 1898 in Hanover ) was a German councilor and hobby geologist and paleontologist .

Life

Born in Osnabrück at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover , the District Councilor Carl Struckmann did private research, particularly in and around Hanover and as far as the Weser Uplands . For his excavation preferred he chose the former limestone - quarry on Lindener mountain in the former village of Linden , the Tönniesberg , the area around the village Ahlem to Lauenstein at Ith . The collector's finds , his fossil collection, can now be found in the Lower Saxony State Museum : Several thousand fossils labeled by Struckmann in the State Museum's archive on Fössestrasse , a small part of which is also in a permanent exhibition in the kitchen garden pavilion on Lindener Berg. There - in the former limestone quarry - even looking for the fossilized evidence of a past life that is millions of years old has little chance of success: Instead of the quarry, there is now the Linden Stadium .

Carl Struckmann also researched the unicorn cave in the Harz Mountains ; In the local Struckmann Grotto , a side cave of the white hall of the cave, a bronze plaque was later placed as a memorial.

In 1881 Carl Struckmann was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Honors

In 1858 August von Strombeck named the Triassic mussel Myophoria struckmanni in his honor .

The state capital Hanover has been honoring the geologist posthumously since 1978 by naming the Struckmannhof street in the Davenstedt district north of Droehnenstrasse .

Further archival material

An archival by and about Carl Struck man is found, for example,

• a handwritten letter from Struckmann from Hanover dated December 11, 1884 to the Swiss geologist Charles David Mayer-Eymar in the archive of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich), signature Hs 277: 916 ;

Fonts (selection)

• About the fossil fauna of the Hanoverian Jura Sea , in: Annual reports of the Natural History Society of Hanover, Volume 23, Hanover: Natural History Society of Hanover, pp. 29-71
• About some of the most important fossil mammals of the Quaternary or Diluvial period in Germany with special consideration of the Province of Hanover , lecture, in: Annual report of the Natural History Society of Hanover , 1875, pp. 24–30
• About the strata of the upper Jura near Ahlem not far from Hanover and about the occurrence of the Exogyra virgula in the upper coral oolite of the white Jura there , 1875
• Geognostic studies in eastern Deister , Hanover: Riemschneider, 1878
• The upper Jura around Hanover. A paleontological-geognostic-statistical representation , with 8 plates, Hanover: Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung, 1878
• The Wealden formations in the Hanover area. A geognostic-palaeontological-statistical representation , Hanover: Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung, 1880
• New contributions to the knowledge of the Upper Jura and the Wealden formations in the area around Hanover (= Palaeontological Treatises , Part 1.1), Berlin: Reimer, 1882
• About the fossil and sub-fossil remains of Quaternary mammals found so far in the province of Hanover , special reprint from the annual reports of the Natural History Society in Hanover , volume 33/34, Hanover: Riemschneider, 1884
• About the oldest human traces in northern Germany. Lecture given in the association / by the Amtsrath Dr. Struckmann , special print with illustrations from the magazine of the Historisches Verein für Niedersachsen , pp. 157–180, Hanover: Gebrüder Jänecke, 1889
• About the hunting and domestic animals of the indigenous people of Lower Saxony , Hanover: Der Verein, 1895
• About the geological conditions in the area around Hanover , in: Report on the 6th General German Miners' Day in Hanover , - Essen, 1895, pp. 59-62

literature

• Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biografie (in Fraktur script ), Vol. 1: Hannoversche men and women since 1866 , Hannover: Sponholtz, 1912, p. 369
• Naturhistorica: Reports of the Natural History Society Hanover , Hanover, ISSN 1868-0828:
  • Number 152 (2010):
    • Heiko Steinke: From the Jurassic Sea to today's North Sea. Comparison of the fossil irregular sea urchin Nucleolites with the recent heart sea urchin Echinocardium cordatum .
    • Marijke Taverbe: The sea crocodile Steneosaurus from Hanover's upper Jura. Skull elements and osteoderms from the "Struckmann Collection"
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• Number 151 (2009):
  • Eike Friedrich Rades: Sea crocodile teeth from Hanover's Upper Jura. Inventory of the "Struckmann Collection" and its paleontological evaluation
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• Number 153 (2011):
  • Annika Maj-Britt Kristin Beckmann: reassessment of the Upper Jurassic irregular sea urchin Pygurus (Echinoidea) from the Kimmeridge limestones of western Hanover
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Media coverage

• Rüdiger Meise: In the footsteps of the Linden dinosaurs / 140 million years ago, dinosaurs roamed the linden trees - 140 years ago Carl Struckmann discovered their tracks on Lindener Berg. He collected and registered almost 10,000 fossils, which are now kept in the archives of the State Museum. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of July 26, 2012, updated July 29, 2012; on-line

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Struckmann, Karl Eberhard Friedrich in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library , edited on May 5, 2011, last accessed on May 12, 2016
2. ↑ Torsten Bachman: Linden. Forays through history , Erfurt: Sutton Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-95400-112-5 , p. 10; online through google books
3. ↑ Siegfried Wielert, Friedhart Knolle (responsible): The unicorn cave near Scharzfeld am Harz ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Karstkunde Harz eV ( argekh.de ), last accessed on May 14, 2016 
4. ^ Member entry by Carl Struckmann at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on May 13, 2016.
5. ↑ August von Strombeck: About the occurrence of Myophoria (Trigonia, Lyriodon) pes anseris SCHLOTH. sp. Journal of the German Geological Society, 10, 1858, pp. 80–87
6. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Struckmannhof , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 238
7. ↑ available online