Curt Teichert

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Curt Teichert (born May 8, 1905 in Koenigsberg , † May 10, 1996 in Arlington ) was a German-American paleontologist and geologist.

Life

Curt Teichert studied geology at the universities of Munich , Freiburg and at the University of Königsberg , where he received his doctorate in 1928. He then worked as an assistant in Freiburg and in 1930 with a Rockefeller scholarship in the USA (Washington DC, New York City, Albany), where he did research on ammonites . In 1931/32 he took part as a geologist in the Danish three-year expedition to Greenland under the direction of Lauge Koch . He then did research for some time in Copenhagen before going to the University of Western Australia in Perth as a lecturer in 1937 . From 1945 he was Assistant Chief Geologist of the Mines Department of Victoria and from 1947 to 1952 Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne (whose Syme Prize he received in 1949). He was a co-founder of the Geological Society of Australia and an advisor to the Bureau of Mineral Resources. In Australia he carried out stratigraphic studies, studied sedimentary basins, ammonites and coral reefs (including the Great Barrier Reef ). In 1949 he was invited by Raymond C. Moore to edit the Ammonitenband for the Treatise of Intervertebrate Paleontology and to hold guest lectures in the USA, for which he received a Fulbright scholarship in 1951/2. In 1952 he moved entirely to the USA as a professor of geology at the New Mexico School of Mines in Socorro (New Mexico) , where he studied the Devonian of New Mexico. From 1954 he was at the US Geological Survey (USGS), for which he set up and headed a Fuels Geology Laboratory in Denver in 1955 . From 1961 to 1964 he headed a support project for the USGS to set up a geological service in Pakistan and organized stratigraphic research there. He and B. Kummel investigated the Perm-Triassic transition in the salt mountains . In 1964 he became a professor at the University of Kansas . He retired there in 1977 and was Adjunct Professor at the University of Rochester until 1995 .

From 1964 to 1979 he was co-editor of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology (in whose third volume on mollusks he published articles in 1964) and 1971/72 President of the Paleontological Society , whose Paleontological Society Medal he received in 1984. From 1976 to 1980 he was President of the International Paleontological Association . He was also Vice President of the International Paleontological Union . In 1969 he became an honorary member of the Paleontological Society . In 1982 he received the Raymond C. Moore Medal from the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists.

Teichert was married to Gertrud Kaufmann, the daughter of the physicist Walter Kaufmann .

Fonts

  • Australia and Gondwanaland, Geologische Rundschau, Volume 47, 1959, pp. 562-590
  • From Karpinsky to Schindewolf: Memories of some great Paleontologists, Journal of Paleontology, Volume 50, 1976, pp. 1-12
  • Main features of cephalopod evolution, in MR Clarke, ER Trueman (Editor) The Mollusca , Volume 12, Academic Press, 1988, pp. 11-79

literature

  • Wolfgang Struve, CE Brett, EL Yochelson (editor), Curt Teichert Festschrift , Senckenbergiana Lethaea, Volume 69, 1988/1989

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Teichert Stratigraphic and paleontological investigations in the lower Gotlandian (Tamsal stage) of western Estonia and the island of Dagö , New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology, Supplement Volume 60, Dept. B, 1928, pp. 1–112
  2. ↑ Teichert investigations on the Caledonian building in East Greenland , Meddelser om Groenland, Volume 95, No. 1, 1933, pp. 1–121. Teichert A geological expedition to Greenland 1931-1932 , Earth Sciences History, Volume 10, 1991, pp. 259-273
  3. ^ Teichert Stratigraphy of Western Australia , American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, Volume 31, 1947, pp. 1-70
  4. ↑ Teichert, Martin Glaessner Geosynclines. A fundamental concept in geology , American Journal of Science, Volume 245, 1940, p. 465
  5. ↑ for example Actinosiphonate cephalopods (Cyrtoceroida) from the Devonian of Australia , Royal Society of Western Australia Journal, Volume 26, 1940, pp. 59-75. In it he described the gogo formation
  6. ↑ Teichert Cold and deep water coral banks , American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, Volume 42, 1953, p. 1064
  7. ^ Devonian Rocks and Paleogeography of central Arizona , USGS Professional Paper No. 464, 1965
  8. ↑ Kummel, Teichert Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Permian-Triassic boundary belts, Salt Range and Trans-Indus-Ranges, West-Pakistan , in Kummel, Teichert (editor) Stratigraphic boundary problems: Permian and Triassic of West Pakistan , University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Special Publications No. 4, 1970, pp. 1-110
personal data
SURNAME Teichert, Curt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American paleontologist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1996
Place of death Arlington