Egbert Cornelis Nicolaas van Hoepen
Egbert Cornelis Nicolaas van Hoepen (born November 10, 1884 in Vlissingen , † May 2, 1966 in Edenvale , Johannesburg ) was a Dutch-South African paleontologist .
Van Hoepen came to Transvaal with his family in 1895 . In the Boer War he fought against the English and was deported back to the Netherlands. At the Technical University of Delft he received his doctorate in geology on the Silurian of Gotland in 1910 and then went back to South Africa, where he worked as a paleontologist at the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria from 1910 to 1921 . From 1922 to 1950 he was director of the National Museum in Bloemfontein .
He dealt with Triassic therapsids of the Karoo supergroup and first described Platycraniellus and the Triassic dinosaur Eucnemesaurus among these .
Fonts
- Contributions to the knowledge of the reptiles of the Karroo Formation. 6. Further dinosaurian material in the Transvaal Museum, Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 7 (2), 1920, pp. 93-141
Web links
- Jan Karel Bosch: Willem Frederik Mondriaan, pdf , p. 18 (biography in footnote)
References and comments
- ↑ De bouw van het siluur van Gotland, Delft: Waltman 1910
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoepen, Egbert Cornelis Nicolaas van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch-South African paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vlissingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 2, 1966 |
| Place of death | Edenvale , Johannesburg |