Ernst Dathe

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Johann Friedrich Ernst Dathe (born October 22, 1845 in Wellerswalde , † May 21, 1917 in Berlin ) was a German geologist .

Dathe received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1874 (microscopic examinations via diabase). He was at the Saxon Geological State Institute (under Hermann Credner ), but switched to the Prussian Geological State Institute (PGLA) in 1880 , where he became a state geologist. He mapped in Saxony ( Döbeln and Döbeln-Scheergrund, Waldheim, Geringswalde, Rosswein-Nossen, Rochlitz -Gleithain) and Silesia (Glatz) and dealt with Quaternary geology, for example the southern limit of the advance of the Ice Age glaciers in Silesia. Dathe was with the PGLA until his retirement in 1911.

literature

  • Obituary in the PGLA yearbook, 1917, p. 401

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dathe, The advance of the Nordic inland ice in the County of Glatz in Silesia. Journal of the German Geological Society, Volume 52, 1900, 68–73
  2. ↑ Dathe, The Nordic Diluvium in the county of Glatz, Yearbook Preuss. Geolog. Landesanstalt, 1894, 252–278
personal data
SURNAME Dathe, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Wellerswalde
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1917
Place of death Berlin