Eduard Holzapfel

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Eduard Holzapfel (born October 18, 1853 in Steinheim , † June 11, 1913 in Strasbourg ) was a German geologist and paleontologist.

Life

Holzapfel was the son of a district judge and, after graduating from high school in Paderborn, studied with Wilhelm Dunker and Adolf von Koenen at the University of Marburg , where he also received his doctorate in 1878 on the Zechstein formation on the eastern edge of the Rhenish Slate Mountains. He was then a teacher at the Realgymnasium in Düren , but continued to deal with geology in the nearby Eifel and the area around Aachen and published in 1882 Die Goniatitenkalke von Adorf in Waldeck . In 1882 he became the assistant of Hugo Laspeyres at the TH Aachen and after his habilitation in 1882 he became a lecturer in geology and palaeontology. In 1885 Holzapfel received the title of professor and in 1894 became a full professor of geology. In 1907 he moved to Strasbourg as a professor to succeed Ernst Wilhelm Benecke . After he lost his wife in an accident, his strength sank, he fell seriously ill after an excursion in 1912 and died of cerebral tuberculosis.

He was passionately active as a reservist and made it up to captain.

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As a paleontologist, Holzapfel dealt mainly with cephalopods ( ammonites ) of the Devonian , Carboniferous and Cretaceous and other mollusks (such as brachiopods ). In his work of 1882 on the goniatite limestone of Adorf, he established the border between Central and Upper Devon and published tables of the molluscs in the chalk around Aachen. He also mapped the geological maps 1: 25000 of Aachen (1911), Herzogenrath (1910), Stolberg (1910), Lendersdorf , Eschweiler (1910), Nastätten , St. Goarshausen , Kaub and Düren (1910) for the Prussian Geological State Institute , especially in the Rhine Valley between Kaub and Lahnstein and in the lower Lahn area. Most recently, he examined the area around Aachen and the extent of the German hard coal deposits in this area, while also collaborating with Belgian geologists (meeting in Iserlohn and Düsseldorf in 1891, publication in Ann. Soc. Geolog. Belgique 1902). In the Aachen area he discovered new lignite deposits from the Pliocene.

In 1897 he took part in the International Geological Congress in Saint Petersburg and the connections established there with Feodossi Nikolajewitsch Tschernyschow led in 1899 to a treatise on the cephalopods of the Upper Devonian in the Pechora region (Timan Ridge).

Fonts

  • The Goniatitenkalke von Adorf in Waldeck , Paläontographica, Volume 28, 1882
  • Contribution to the knowledge of the brachiopod fauna of the Rhenish Stringocephalic Limestone , Yearbook of the Prussian Geological Institute, Volume 29, II, 1899
  • The mollusks of the Aachener Kreide , Paläontographica, volumes 34 and 35, 1888/89
  • The cephalopod-bearing limestones of the Lower Carboniferous from Erdbach-Breitscheid near Herborn , Paläontologische Abhandlungen, New Series, 1889
  • The Rhine valley from Bingerbrück to Lahnstein , treatises of the Prussians. Geolog. State Institute, New Series, Volume 15, 1893
  • with E. Kayser: About the stratigraphic relations of the Bohemian levels F, G, H Barrande's to the Rhenish Devon , yearbook Geologische Reichsanstalt Wien, 44, 1894, 479-517
  • with L. Beushausen: The Upper Middle Devon: Layers with Stringocephalus Burtini And Maeneceras Terebratum in the Rhenish Mountains , Abh. Königlich Prussische Geologische Landesanstalt 1895
  • with W. Wunstorf, G. Fliegel: The geology of the northern fall of the Eifel and the North Rhine lowlands , treatises of the Preuss. Geolog. State Institute, New Series, Volume 66, 1910
  • The cephalopods of the Domanik in southern Timan , Mémoires du Comité géologique, St. Petersburg XII, No. 3, 1899 (Russian and German)
  • Observations in the Diluvium of Aachen , yearbook of the Royal Prussian. Geolog. State institute for 1903, 1904
  • The face conditions of the Rhenish Devonian , in: Festschrift Adolf v. Koenen, Jahrbuch für Mineralogie etc., Schweitzerbart 1907

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Published in Palaeontographica, Volume 28, 1882
personal data
SURNAME Holzapfel, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinheim
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1913
Place of death Strasbourg