Edmund Picard

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Wilhelm Edmund Adolf Picard (born June 24, 1876 in Badra ; † August 12, 1949 in Berlin) was a German geologist and paleontologist.

family

Edmund Picard was the son of the teacher (rector), fossil collector and paleontologist Karl Picard and his wife Dorothea nee. Werner.

In 1912 he married Katharina Paetzold, with whom he had a son.

Life

Picard attended the Sondershausen high school . After graduating from high school in 1896, he studied natural sciences (focus on geology, paleontology) and mathematics (with Felix Klein, among others ) in Bonn, Jena, Berlin and Halle. In 1901 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . His dissertation on the Gastropoda of the Middle Triassic (contribution to the knowledge of the gastropods of the Central German Triassic) is still one of the standard works of Triassic gastropods , along with Otto Grunert's work, and received a magna cum laude . From 1901 he was initially an assistant geologist at the Prussian Geological State Institute (PGLA). In 1912 he became a district geologist and, during World War I, served on the front lines and military geologist in Belgium. In 1924 he became a curator and received the title of professor and in 1928 he became a regional geologist. In 1940 he became a government geologist in the Reich Office for Soil Research and dealt particularly with the deposits in the Lusatian lignite mining district and in the Bitterfeld region . After the war, he became a senior geologist at the German State Geological Institute in Berlin in 1945, but was released in 1946. In 1947 he was still working on a fee basis, but then fell seriously ill.

In addition to the Germanic Triassic, he also dealt with Quaternary geology (river terraces and loess in Thuringia) and as an applied geologist with coal deposits (including deep drilling of the Doberlug-Kirchhain anthracite deposit ). He published on the Rotstein near Bad Liebenwerda .

From 1916 he was treasurer and from 1948 honorary member of the German Geological Society.

Fonts

  • Contribution to the knowledge of the gastropods of the Central German Triassic. Inaugural dissertation, Halle 1902, Archives
  • Contribution to the knowledge of the glossophores of the Central German Triassic, Jb. KPGLA, Volume 22 for 1901; 1903, pp. 445-540
  • About the lower red sandstone of the Mansfeld Mulde and its fossils, Jb. KPGLA, Volume 30 for 1909; 1910, pp. 576-622
  • Notices about the Muschelkalk near Rüdersdorf, Jb. KPGLA, Volume 35 for 1914; Part II: 1915, pp. 366-372

literature

  • B. Dammer, obituary in Geol. Jb. For the years 1943–1948, Hanover 1950
  • Biographical lexicon on the history of geosciences in Thuringia. Biobibliographic data on geoscientists and collectors who were active in Thuringia. 2nd edition, compiled by Heinz and Josepha Wiefel. Jena 2010. p. 111.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Picard: Algonkium von Rotstein near Liebenwerda in comparison with that in the Sarkatal near Prague and about Cambrian near Dobrilugk, Z. Dt. Geol. Ges., 80, 1928, pp. 20-32
personal data
SURNAME Picard, Edmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Picard, Wilhelm Edmund Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Badra
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1949
Place of death Berlin