Erwin Rutte

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Erwin Rutte (born February 14, 1923 in Medonost ; † January 10, 2007 ) was a German geologist and paleontologist who mainly dealt with the regional geology of Bavaria.

Rutte received his doctorate in 1949 at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau (on young tertiary and old diluvium in the Upper Rhine region and the fossil karst of the southern Baden foothills) and was a private lecturer there. From 1953 he was a private lecturer, 1959 associate professor, 1970 associate professor and 1972 full professor of geology and palaeontology at the University of Würzburg . In 1988 he retired.

He is also known through hypotheses and research on the Ries event . For example, he assigned new secondary impact craters and described the rock alemonite (for example from the Altmühltal) in 1971 as the (alleged) impactite of the Ries event.

As a paleontologist, he dealt with vertebrate paleontology, especially of the Pleistocene . In particular, he investigated mammalian fossil finds in valley embankments of the Old Pleistocene on the Main ( Central Main Cromer ), in which there were also indications of the workings of Homo heidelbergensis , for example on the Schalksberg in Würzburg, where excavations were carried out from 1966 to 1976 under the direction of Rutte (the university psychiatric clinic rebuilt there). From 1984 to 1986 he excavated in Untermaßfeld , where fish fauna of the Pleistocene from the Ur-Werra was found.

Fonts

  • Introduction to the geology of Lower Franconia . Wuerzburg 1957
  • Hundreds of references to the geology of the Rhön . Writings of the Natural Science Association Würzburg, Munich 1974
  • Bavaria's geological history. The geological guide through Bavaria. Ehrenwirth, 1981
  • Mainfranken and Rhön . Geological Guide Collection No. 43, Borntraeger, Berlin 1965
  • with Norbert Wilczewski : Mainfranken and Rhön . Geological Guide Collection, Volume 74, 2nd completely revised edition of Volume 43, Borntraeger, Berlin and Stuttgart 1983
  • Rhine, Main, Danube: how - when - why they were; a geological story . Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1987
  • with Norbert Wilczewski: Mainfranken and Rhön . Geological Guide Collection, Volume 74, 3rd revised edition, Borntraeger, Berlin and Stuttgart 1995
  • There is rustling in the horsetail. Life and death of Bavarian dinosaurs. Wek publishing house , Treuchtlingen 1997
  • Land of New Stones - Meteorite Strikes in Central and Eastern Bavaria , Universitätsverlag Regensburg, Regensburg 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth and career data from Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2001
  2. ↑ Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau, Volume 6, 1953
  3. ^ Rutte Bayerns Erdgeschichte , 1981, p. 223
personal data
SURNAME Rutte, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Medonost
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 2007