Dietrich Herm

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Dietrich Herm around 1980
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Dietrich Herm (born January 18, 1933 in São Paulo ) is a German geologist and paleontologist .

Life

Herm was born in Brazil, but grew up in Germany and studied biology and geology at the University of Hamburg and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he received his doctorate in 1960. From 1963 to 1966 he was a professor at the Universidad de Chile (during this time he undertook field studies all over Chile) and from 1969 at the University of Tübingen . From 1977, he was Richard Dehm's successor Professor of Paleontology and Historical Geology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and head of the State Paleontological Collection . Later he was general director of the Bavarian State Natural Science Collections . In 1998 he retired .

He deals with the marine Pleistocene and Pliocene in South America, Africa and the Mediterranean region (especially micropalaeontology ) and from the 1980s especially with the formation of the Alps (especially the northern limestone Alps ) and paleo biogeography of the Cretaceous period .

In 1960 he received the Hermann Credner Prize . In 2000 he became an honorary member of the Paleontological Society . He is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

  • Stratigraphic and micropalaeontological investigations of the Upper Cretaceous in the Lattengebirge and in the Nierental (Gosau Basin of Reichenhall and Salzburg) (= Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Mathematical and natural science class. Treatises. NF booklet 104, ISSN  0376-1029 ). Publishing house of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 1962.

literature

  • Winfried Werner (Hrsg.): Micropalaeontology-Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Herbert Hagn and for the 60th birthday of Dietrich Herm (= Zitteliana. Treatises of the Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Historical Geology. Issue 20, ISSN  0373-9627 ). Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Historical Geology, Munich 1993, digitized .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ member entry of Dietrich Herm (with photo) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 22 2016th
personal data
SURNAME Herm, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH São Paulo