Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger

Dragutin Gorjanović Kramberger

Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger (German Karl Gorjanović-Kramberger ) (born October 28, 1856 in Zagreb , Austria-Hungary ; † December 22, 1936 there , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) was a geologist and paleontologist .

Life

Gorjanović-Kramberger studied at the universities of Zurich, Munich and Tübingen and was awarded a doctorate in 1879 at the University of Tübingen with a thesis on fish fossils from the Carpathians. rer. nat. PhD and habilitation in 1880 at the University of Zagreb . From 1880 to 1886 he worked as an assistant at the Geological-Mineralogical Institute of the University of Zagreb. From 1886 to 1924 he was a full professor of geology and paleontology at the University of Zagreb.

In 1899, Gorjanović-Kramberger discovered the Neanderthal site at Husnjakovo brdo near Krapina , which is now a Neanderthal museum.

Fonts

• The fauna of the Upper Pontic formations of Podgradje and Vizanovec in Croatia . In: Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute 49 (1899) 235–246 online (PDF; 1.2 MB)
• The fauna of the sub-Pontic formations around Londjica in Slavonia . In: Yearbook of the Imperial-Royal Geological Institute 49, 1899, pp. 125-134 online (PDF; 1.1 MB)
• About the genus Valeneiennesia and some Lower Pontic Limnaeen. A contribution to the development history of the genus Valenciennesia and its relationship to the genus Limnaea . In: Posts paleontal. Geol. Austria-Hungary and Orient 13.3 (1900) 121-140.
• About Budmania Brus. And other Upper Pontic Limnocardia of Croatia . In: Session reports of the Academy of Sciences, mathematical and natural science class 111, 1902, pp. 5–25 online (PDF; 2.4 MB)
• The Upper Triadic fish fauna of Hallein in Salzburg , in: Contributions to the palaeontology of Austria-Hungary XVIII (1905) 193–224.
• The diluvial man from Krapina in Croatia , Wiesbaden 1906. ( digitized version )
• About Homo Aurignacensis Hauseri . In: Negotiations of the Geological Reichsanstalt 1909, p. 302 f. online (PDF; 316 kB)
• with Christian Baron Freiherr von Steeb, Milan Melkus: The geological and hydrographic conditions of the thermal bath "Stubicke Toplice" in Croatia and their chemical-physical properties . In: Yearbook of the Kaiserlich-Königliche Geologische Reichsanstalt 60 (1910) 1-66 online (PDF; 5.3 MB)
• Homo Aurignacensis Hauseri in Krapina? . In: Negotiations of the Geological Reichsanstalt (1910) 312–317 online (PDF; 563 kB)

literature

• Gorjanović-Kramberger, Dragutin. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 33.
• Helmuth Zapfe : Index Palaeontologicorum Austriae (= Catalogus fossilium Austriae issue 15). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1971, p. 38 ( PDF; 383 kB )

Web links

• Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger Medal of the Croatian Anthropological Society