Eugen Seibold

Seibold (right) 1963

Eugen Seibold (born May 11, 1918 in Stuttgart ; † October 23, 2013 in Freiburg ) was a German marine geologist and university professor.

Live and act

Seibold introduced his students to marine geology and the sediments of the Baltic Sea on small ship excursions

Seibold studied geosciences at the universities of Bonn and Tübingen , where he received his doctorate in 1948 and also completed his habilitation in 1951. From 1951 to 1953 he was a lecturer at the Technical University of Karlsruhe , from 1954 to 1958 professor at the University of Tübingen. In 1958 he followed a call to Kiel, where he was director of the Geological-Paleontological Institute and Museum at the Christian-Albrechts-University, mainly concerned with marine geology. The institute achieved international renown under his leadership. As part of marine geological projects, he carried out studies on sedimentology, geochemistry, hydrogeology, tectonics and micropalaeontology in the North and Baltic Seas, in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans off northwest Africa and in the Persian / Arabian Gulf. Seibold led seven expeditions between 1965 and 1975 with the research vessels Meteor , Valdivia and the drillship Glomar Challenger . The drill cores of the Glomar Challenger Expedition of 1968 in the South Atlantic provided important evidence for plate tectonics (extension of the sea floor from the mid-Atlantic ridge).

From 1980 to 1985 Eugen Seibold was President of the German Research Foundation , then from 1985 to 1990 President of the European Science Foundation in Strasbourg . From 1980 to 1984 he was also President of the International Union of Geological Sciences. He was co-editor of several German and international magazines and series. He was a member and honorary member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in Halle (since 1971), the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature , corresponding member of the Bavarian , Göttingen , Heidelberg (since 1985), Croatian and Rheinisch-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and a member the Paris Académie des Sciences .

Eugen Seibold received the Gustav Steinmann Medal of the Geological Association in 1985 . The universities of Norwich and Paris awarded him an honorary doctorate . In 1985 he was honored with the Great Federal Cross of Merit with Star and in 1987 with the Medal of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg . Since 1985 Seibold was honorary professor at the University of Freiburg and the Tongji University in Shanghai. In 1994 he became an honorary member of the Society for Natural History in Württemberg . In 1997, Seibold used the money from the Blue Planet Prize awarded to him by the Japanese Asahi Glas Foundation in 1994 to establish the Eugen and Ilse Seibold Prize, named after him and his wife . In 2003 he was awarded the Walter Kertz Medal of the German Geophysical Society and the Leopoldina Medal of Merit . In 2008 he received the Leopold von Buch plaque from the German Society for Geosciences . In 2011 he was awarded the Medal of Merit of the International Union of Geological Sciences .

Seibold last lived in Freiburg with his wife Ilse Seibold , a doctor of micropalaeontology. She oversaw the geological archive in Freiburg, dealt with the history of science and published, for example, in 2001 on geology and the fine arts. The couple donated the Georg Uschmann Prize for the History of Science .

In 2018, the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz put the ocean-going research yacht Eugen Seibold into operation to study the interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere .

Fonts

• The ocean floor. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-540-06868-6 .
• With Michael Sarnthein , Pierre Rognon: Sahara and Surrounding Seas. Balkema, Rotterdam 1980, ISBN 90-6191-050-1 .
• With Ulrich von Rad, Karl Hinz , Michael Sarnthein: Geology of the Northwest African Continental Margin. Springer, Berlin 1982, ISBN 0-387-11257-X .
• The memory of the sea. Piper, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-492-03213-3 .
• Unleashed earth. DVA, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-421-02771-4 .
• With Wolfgang H. Berger : The Sea Floor. Springer, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-540-60191-0 .

literature

• Ekkehard Bautz, Thomas Holstein: Eugen Seibold (May 11, 1918 - October 23, 2013). In: Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences for 2013. Heidelberg 2014, pp. 199–200 ( online )
• Marco Finetti : Obituary - With foresight and drive. Eugen Seibold, the former DFG President and initiator of the Leibniz Prize, died at the age of 95. In: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Ed.): Research , issue 4/2013, p. 17.

Web links

• Literature by and about Eugen Seibold in the catalog of the German National Library
• Lecture on June 29, 1973, Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, in Treatises of the Mathematical and Natural Science Class: From the Edge of the Continents (PDF 6.8 MB), accessed January 5, 2014.
• Doctoral supervisor Eugen Seibold 75 years old - May 11, 1993. Pictures and stories from the life of a German academic teacher and professor from the perspective of his doctoral students. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, 1993, 92 S; (pdf 25 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Member entry by Eugen Seibold (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 11, 2016.
2. ^ Honorary members of the Society for Natural History in Württemberg
3. ↑ The ship Eugen Seibold . Website of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry . Retrieved May 18, 2020.