Emil Böse

Diedrich Albert Wilhelm Emil Böse ; also Bose or Boese (born June 8, 1868 in Hamburg , † November 8, 1927 west of Sabinal , Texas ) was a German geologist . He determined the Ramsaudolomit and coined the name.

Life

Böse received his doctorate in 1893 under Karl von Zittel in Munich . He undertook studies of the Triassic rocks in the Italian Alps . He stayed in the Berchtesgaden Alps in the first half of the 1890s. On the basis of a fossil site at the Antenbichl in Ramsau near Berchtesgaden , he determined the Ramsaudolomit . In 1898 he took a position as a geologist at the Instituto de Geología de México. He married in 1900 and had five children with his wife. In 1915 he moved to the University of Texas . During the last part of the First World War , he decided to return to Mexico , but was temporarily interned as a German reserve officer by the US authorities . He served as a consultant in the southern United States and Mexico from 1917 to 1922. His family moved to Munich in 1924. He died as a result of a car accident.

Fonts

• Contributions to the knowledge of the Alpine Triassic. I. The Berchtesgaden Triassic and its relationship to the other Triassic districts of the northern Limestone Alps. In: Journal of the German Geological Society, 50, Berlin 1898, pp. 468–586, panel XVIII
• Contributions to the knowledge of the Alpine Triassic. II. The Faciesbezirke of the Triassic in the Northern Alps. In: Journal of the German Geological Society, 50, Berlin 1898, pp. 695–761
• The earthquakes . no year around 1910

literature

• Werner Quenstedt :  Evil, Diedrich Albert Emil Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 407 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Hellmut Schöner (Ed.), A. Helm : Keyword: Böse in: Berchtesgaden in the course of time. Reprint from 1929. Association for local history d. Berchtesgadener Landes. Berchtesgadener Anzeiger and Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1973. p. 53.