Ernst Wilhelm Benecke

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Ernst Wilhelm Benecke (born March 16, 1838 in Berlin , † March 6, 1917 in Strasbourg ) was a German geologist and paleontologist .

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The son of a private teacher graduated from high school in Halle in 1857 and began an internship in mining in the same year . From 1859 he studied geology and mining in Clausthal , from 1859 to 1861 in Halle , Würzburg , Berlin and Heidelberg .

In 1862 he received his doctorate in Heidelberg and was then an assistant at the University of Munich . In 1865 he completed his habilitation in Heidelberg, where he became an associate professor in 1869. In 1872 Benecke was appointed full professor of geology at the University of Strasbourg , where he was also director of the commission for the geological survey of Alsace-Lorraine from 1873 to 1907 . In 1896 he was the first chairman of the Upper Rhine Geological Association . He was the first to describe the cephalopod Ceratites levalloisi BENECKE in 1914.

Benecke was married to Emilie Fallenstein (1846–1922), the youngest sister of the mother of the sociologist Max Weber , Helene Fallenstein (1844–1919). The couple had ten children, including the botanist Wilhelm (1868–1946).

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He was editor of the series of publications on geognostic and paleontological contributions. Together with Emil Wilhelm Cohen , he published the geognostic map of the Heidelberg area (on a scale of 1: 50,000, Heidelberg 1874–77, 2 sheets) and the geognostic description of the Heidelberg area (Heidelberg 1880, 2 booklets). From 1879 he was co-editor of the New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology .

  • About Triassic and Jura in the Southern Alps , 205 p., 11 plates, Oldenbourg, Munich 1866, archive
  • Over some shell limestone deposits in the Alps. Geognostic and palaeontological articles, Issue 1, 1 - 67, Oldenbourg, Munich 1868
  • Storage and composition of the stratified mountains on the southern slope of the Odenwald , Heidelberg 1869
  • About the Triassic in Alsace-Lorraine and Luxembourg. Treatises on the special geological map of Alsace-Lorraine; Volume 1, Issue 4, printed and published by R. Schultz & Cie, Strasbourg 1877
  • Outline of the geology of Alsace-Lorraine , Strasbourg 1879
  • About an ophiure from the English Rhaetian. New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geology and Palaeontology, year 1886, Volume II, pp. 195–200, Stuttgart 1886
  • Lettenkohlengruppe and Lunzer layers. Reports of the Natural Research Society of Freiburg i. Br., 10 (2), 109 - 151, 1897
  • Diplopora and some other fossils in the Alsace-Lorraine shell limestone. Announcements of the geological institute of Alsace-Lorraine, Volume IV, 277 - 285, Strasbourg printing and publishing company, Strasbourg 1898
  • Myophoria inflata EMMR. in the Swabian Rhät. New yearbook for mineralogy, geology and palaeontology, year 1900, pp. 218–224, panel XI, Stuttgart 1900
  • The position of the plant-bearing layers of Neuewelt near Basel. Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, year 1906, 1 - 10, E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1906
  • About the appearance of the Ceratites in the Alsace-Lorraine upper Muschelkalk. Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Vol. XII, pp. 593–603, 1911
  • About the “Dolomitic Region” in Alsace-Lorraine and the border between Muschelkalk and Lettenkohle. Announcements from the regional geological institute of Alsace-Lorraine, Volume IX, Issue 1, Strasbourg 1914
  • Via the internal lobe of the nodose Ceratites. Announcements from the regional geological institute of Alsace-Lorraine, Volume IX, 3, 273 - 280, Plate XII, Strasbourg printing and publishing company, Strasbourg 1916

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  1. ^ Members of the previous academies. Ernst Wilhelm Benecke. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on February 20, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Geologische Rundschau, 1, Engelmann, Leipzig 1910
personal data
SURNAME Benecke, Ernst Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1917
Place of death Strasbourg