Florian Heller (paleontologist)

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Florian Jakob Rudolf Heller (* July 12, 1905 in Nuremberg ; † September 22, 1978 ibid) was a German paleontologist who examined fossil mammals in particular.

Heller studied at the University of Erlangen , the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the University of Heidelberg and received his doctorate in geology in 1929 in Erlangen on the basis of gypsum in Franconia . Afterwards he was initially an assistant at the Geological-Paleontological Institute of the University of Halle and from 1930 at the Geological-Paleontological Institute of the University of Gießen . In 1935 he moved to Heidelberg, where he was initially curator and lecturer until he was given an unscheduled professorship in 1942. In 1951 he came back to Erlangen, where in 1961 he became the first professor of paleontology in Erlangen.

He examined finds in various caves, such as the Balver cave in the Sauerland , the Göpfelstein cave and the Nikolaus cave near Veringenstadt , or mammal fossils from river deposits such as those of the Neckar. In 1932 he secured finds of cave lions (including a large skull) and cave bears from the Gentner cave in Upper Franconia, which was cut during construction work on a road from Pegnitz to Weidelwang . In 1957 he described a cave bear skull from the Hohler Stein cave near Schambach in the Eichstätt district , where he suspected a cultic ritual.

In 1959 he described a new Archeopteryx find from Solnhofen (from 1956).

Fonts

  • Geological investigations in the area of ​​the Franconian base gypsum (= treatise of the Natural History Society of Nuremberg. Vol. 23, No. 3, ISSN  0077-6149 ). Natural History Society of Nuremberg, Nuremberg 1930, ( digitized ; at the same time: Erlangen, University, dissertation, 1931).
  • Leiolepis kohlmanni ngn sp., A new muschelkalk ganoid from Upper Franconia. In: Geological sheets for northeast Bavaria and neighboring areas. 2, 1952, ISSN  0016-7797 , pp. 25-31.
  • The stratigraphic distribution and the importance of the occurrence of Lingula and Estheria in the Franconian Keuper. In: Geological sheets for northeast Bavaria and neighboring areas. 2, 1952, pp. 57-63.
  • A ganoid fish (Aphelolepis delpi ngn sp.) From the border dolomite of Central Franconia. In: Geological sheets for northeast Bavaria and neighboring areas. 3, 1953, pp. 81-87.
  • A find of Trichasteropsis weissmanni Münst. from the Upper Muschelkalk near Haßfurt, Ufr. In: Geological sheets for northeast Bavaria and neighboring areas. 7, 1957, pp. 45-47.
  • New track finds from the Middle Keuper near Haßfurt a. M. In: Geological sheets for Northeast Bavaria and neighboring areas. 8, 1958, pp. 146-152.
  • A new Ophiuren find from the Upper Muschelkalk of Bayreuth. In: Geological sheets for northeast Bavaria and neighboring areas. 9, 1959, pp. 15-24.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ernst Probst : The cave lion. Grin-Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-640-76998-8 .
personal data
SURNAME Heller, Florian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heller, Florian Jakob Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1978
Place of death Nuremberg