Ernst Zimmermann (geologist, 1860)

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Ernst Zimmermann (born July 15, 1860 in Gera ; † January 6, 1944 there ) was a German geologist who dealt in particular with the geology of Thuringia .

Life

Zimmermann went to high school in Gera and was consulted by his teacher Karl Theodor Liebe as a pupil and then as a student for geological mapping work in Thuringia, which Liebe carried out on behalf of the Prussian Geological Institute (PGLA). He studied geology in Jena with Ernst Erhard Schmid (and two semesters in Munich with Karl Alfred von Zittel ), who also used him for mapping in Thuringia. In 1883 he received his doctorate there on German and Alpine rhaetium . In Jena he also studied zoology with Ernst Haeckel . In 1885/86 he carried out the duties of curator in the paleontological-geological collection of the Jena University under Gustav Steinmann . From 1886 he himself was with the PGLA, for which he mapped extensively in Thuringia. In 1887 Ernst Zimmermann was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1925 he retired. He had the rank of a secret mountain ridge.

In August 1912 he was one of the 34 founding members of the Paleontological Society . In 1938 he received the first Gustav Steinmann Medal . He was an honorary member of the German Geological Society. In 1927 he became an honorary member of the Thuringian Geological Association .

Fonts

  • Stratigraphic and paleontological study of the German and Alpine Rhaetians. Inaugural dissertation at the University of Jena, printed by Issleib and Rietzschel, Gera 1884
  • A new nautilus from the border dolomite of the Thuringian Keuper (Trematodiscus jugatonodosus). Yearbook of the Royal Prussian Geological State Institute and Mining Academy in Berlin for the year 1889, 322–327, panel XXVII, Berlin 1892

literature

  • Obituary by F. Deubel, Journal of the German Geological Society, Volume 102, 1950, pp. 129-133
  • Obituary Geological Yearbook, Volume 65, 1951, p. 27

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to the PGLA's list of geologists, see web links, since 1883
  2. ↑ Member entry by Ernst Zimmermann at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 8, 2016.
  3. ^ Palaeontological Journal 1, Issue 1, March 1914
  4. ^ Honorary members of the TGV
personal data
SURNAME Carpenter, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1944
Place of death Gera