Emil Wepfer

Emil Wepfer (born February 26, 1883 in Pordenone , † June 14, 1930 in Cannstatt ) was a German geologist and paleontologist.

Life

Wepfer studied geology and paleontology at the Eberhard Karls University . On June 26, 1903, he was reciprocated in the Corps Rhenania Tübingen . When he was inactive , he moved to the Philipps University of Marburg , the Kaiser Wilhelms University of Strasbourg and the Albertus University of Königsberg . In 1908 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. He then worked as an assistant in Freiburg im Breisgau, where he completed his habilitation in 1911. In August 1912 he was one of the 34 founding members of the Paleontological Society . In the First World War he did his military service from 1914 to 1918, where he became an associate professor in Freiburg in 1916 . In 1923 he went to the Geological State Institute in Stuttgart, where he was a state geologist, and had a teaching position at the TH Stuttgart . After Paul Kessler's death in 1927 he was his successor as a lecturer at the University of Tübingen.

He was the father of Lenelotte von Bothmer .

Fonts (selection)

• The red sandstone of the Baden Black Forest and its labyrinthodonts . Borntraeger, 1923.
• Two deep boreholes on the eastern edge of the Black Forest . E. Klett, 1928

literature

• Wolf von Engelhardt : Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology at the University of Tübingen from the beginning to the present . Mohr, Tübingen 1977.

Web links

• Literature by and about Emil Wepfer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographical data according to Bruno Freyberg: The geological literature on Northeast Bavaria (1476–1965) Part II: Biographical author register, Geologica Bavarica 71, Bavarian Geological State Office 1974
2. ^ Emil Wepfer I (x) , in: Die Tübinger Rhenanen , 5th edition (2002), p. 123.
3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 128 , 539
4. ↑ Dissertation: The northern flysch zone in the Bregenz Forest .
5. ^ Palaeontological Journal 1, Issue 1, March 1914