Erwin Busse

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German painter, theater director and writer Erwin von Busse (1885–1939) see Granand .

Karl Walter Erwin Busse (born October 4, 1902 in Dessau , † April 15, 1984 in Kassel ) was a German fossil collector and paleontologist . He was a leading expert on the North Hessian shell limestone .

Life

Busse, the son of a pastor , grew up in Saarbrücken and from 1908 in Kassel and was a full-time employee of the AOK Kassel from 1924 until his retirement in 1965. He collected sea ​​sand in Kassel and in the Hessian shell limestone and was a volunteer at the Hessian State Office for Soil Research for the he wrote many contributions to the explanations of geological maps, e.g. B. for Kassel. He also published a lot on the paleontology and stratigraphy of the shell limestone (from 1952), including in the notebooks of the Hessian State Office and in the Geological Yearbook of Hesse.

His collections went to the Natural History Museum ( Ottoneum ) Kassel, in whose reconstruction after the destruction of the war he played a major role. Busses own collection was also destroyed by bombing during World War II (he himself was a soldier from 1940 to 1945). He was friends with the collectors Heinrich Illers (board member of the AOK) and Hans Penndorf and since 1920 in the association for natural history in Kassel.

honors and awards

• In 1963 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Frankfurt .

Species named after Erwin Busse:

• Ceratites bussei URLICHS & MUNDLOS 1980

Fonts

• Fine stratigraphy and fossil record of the trochitic limestone in the Meißner area, northern Hesse, notepad. Hess. State Office f. Bodenf., VI, 3, 1952, 118-137.
• Stratigraphic relationships of the Upper Muschelkalk in the Diemel region and on the Meißner in Niederhessen. In: Z. dt. Geol. Ges., Vol. 111, 1959, pp. 245-246.
• Ceratites armatus PHILIPPI in the Upper Muschelkalk of the Meißner (Lower Hesse). In: Notbl. hess. L.-Amt Bodenforsch., 90, plate 10, Wiesbaden 1962, pp. 87-92.
• Stratigraphy of the lower shell limestone (wave limestone) in the western Meissner foreland. In: Ver. Naturkde. Kassel, Volume 62, 1964, pp. 1-35.
• Ceratiten and Ceratiten-Stratigraphy. In: Notbl. Hess. State Office f. Bodenforsch., 98, 1970, pp. 112-145.
• Facies and fauna of the Upper Muschelkalk from Willebadessen. In: Philippa, Volume 1, Heft 3, 1972, pp. 110-126.
• with Manfred Horn: New fossil finds in the Middle Buntsandstein NW-Hesse and their significance for palaeogeography. In: Geol. Jb. Hessen, Volume 106, 1978, pp. 131-142.

Web links

• Entry in the collector's glossary, Ottoneum, Kassel, with a list of publications ( Memento from November 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
• Obituary by Manfred Horn, Albert Karschny, in: Geolog. Yearbook Hessen, Volume 113, 1985, pp. 320–326 (pdf)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ M. Urlichs u. R. Mundlos: Revision of the ceratites from the atavus zone (Upper Muschelkalk, Upper anise) of SW Germany. In: Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History, Vol. 48, 42 S. 4 Taf., Stuttgart 1980.