Ferdinand Broili

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Ferdinand Broili (born April 11, 1874 in Mühlbach , Lower Franconia; † April 30, 1946 there ) was a German geologist and paleontologist . From 1919 to 1940 he was professor of palaeontology and historical geology at the University of Munich .

Life

Mühlbach Castle

Ferdinand Broili was born in his father's castle in Mühlbach. He studied in Würzburg and from 1895 under Karl Alfred von Zittel at the University of Munich , where he received his doctorate in 1898 on Eryops megacephalus (see Temnospondyli ). He then briefly worked as an assistant at the Technical University of Munich and at the State Palaeontological Collection in Munich. There he completed his habilitation at Zittel in 1903 and became custodian in 1904, succeeding Josef Felix Pompeckj . In 1909 he became a curator, in 1919 director of the State Collection for Paleontology and Historical Geology and in 1920 full professor at the University of Munich. In 1939 he retired. In 1944 he had to witness how a large part of his collection and his private library fell victim to the flames in the bombing raids on Munich in April 1944. He then withdrew to his castle.

As early as 1901 he was collecting fossil amphibians and reptiles from the Permian in Texas , which became one of his main fields of research. But he also worked in many other areas of paleontology (invertebrates and vertebrates, paleobotany). He found the first complete fossil sea ​​cucumber (holothuria) and the first fossil pantopods . He was the first to detect hairiness in pterosaurs and also found signs of hairiness in cynodontia , which he interpreted as a sign of warm-bloodedness.

Among other things, he dealt with the Devonian fossils of the Hunsrück slate (Bundenbach), especially the fish fauna. He also collected a lot in the Bavarian and Austrian Alps.

As a geologist, he mapped in the Kampenwand area of the Chiemgau mountains from 1898 to 1913 .

He worked on the textbook on paleontology of his teacher Zittel.

One of his students was Werner Quenstedt , grandson of Friedrich August Quenstedt .

Memberships and honors

Ferdinand Broili became a member of the Swiss Geological Society in 1909 and a member of the Paleontological Society in the founding year 1912 . In 1919 he became an associate and in 1921 a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1934 he became an honorary member of the Geological Society in Vienna and he was an honorary member of the Swiss Natural Research Society and the Society of Natural Sciences in Moscow . In 1936 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . He was a corresponding member of the Geological Society of London , the Chinese Geological Society and the Paleontological Society and a member of the Academy of Sciences in Leningrad and Academy of Sciences in Cordoba .

Fonts

  • The fauna of the pachycardia tuff of the Alpe di Siusi. (Excluding the gastropods and cephalopods.). Palaeontographica, 50, 4th to 5th series, pp. 144–227, plates XVII - XXVII, Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1904
  • Permian stegocephalics and reptiles. Swiss beard, Stuttgart 1904
  • with Alston Read: The fauna of the pachycardia tuff of the Seiser Alp. Scaphopods and gastropods. Palaeontographica, 54, 2nd to 3rd series, pp. 69–138, plates VI - XI, Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1907
  • On the osteology of the skull of Placodus. Palaeontographica, 59: 3rd to 4th volume, pp. 147–156, plate XIV, Schweizerbart'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1912
  • Observations on Tanystropheus conspicuus H. v. MEYER. New yearbook for mineralogy, geology and palaeontology, year 1915, pp. 51–62, panels II - III, Stuttgart 1915
  • Paleozoology (systematics). de Gruyter, Berlin 1921.
  • with Karl Alfred von Zittel : Basics of paleontology 2. Vertebrata. 2. presumably u. verb. Edition Oldenbourg, Munich 1911
  • with Karl Alfred von Zittel: Invertebrata. 4. verb. u. probably edition Oldenbourg, Munich 1915
  • with Karl Alfred von Zittel: Fundamentals of paleontology (paleozoology). 5. verb. and possibly edition Oldenbourg, Munich 1921

literature

  • F. Kutscher: Ferdinand Broili, the most successful processor of Hunsrück slate fossils to date. Notes of the Hessian State Office for Soil Research 99, 1971, pp. 383–389.
  • Obituary by Othmar Kühn in communications from the Geological Society in Vienna. 39-41. Volume, 1946–1948 ( online ; PDF; 121 kB).

Web links

Commons : Ferdinand Broili  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Palaeontological Journal 1, Issue 1, March 1914
  2. ↑ Member entry of Ferdinand Broili (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 3, 2016.
  3. ^ Member entry by Ferdinand Broili at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 3, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Broili, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühlbach , Lower Franconia
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1946
Place of death Mühlbach , Lower Franconia