Franz Xaver Mayr (natural scientist)

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Gravestone at the East Cemetery in Eichstätt

Franz Xaver Mayr (born February 21, 1887 in Pfronten -Ried 224 1/4; † June 21, 1974 in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz ) was a German Roman Catholic priest and fossil collector .

Life

The parents were the royal main customs office controller Jakob Mayr and his wife Karolina, née Freün. Franz Xaver Mayr studied natural sciences in Erlangen before the First World War and received his doctorate in botany. He was initially a teacher, then studied Catholic theology from 1921 and was ordained a priest in 1923 . From 1923 until his retirement in 1958 he was a professor at the Philosophical-Theological University in Eichstätt, where he taught natural sciences, including geology, chemistry and biology. He brought together an important collection of fossils from the Solnhofen limestone , which later formed the basis of the Eichstätt Juramuseum .

Mayr was the first chairman of the Eichstätt local group of the Federation for Nature Conservation in Bavaria.

In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

Mayr had been a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Aenania Munich since 1907 .

literature

  • Matthias Buschkühl : Franz Xaver Mayr, priest and scientist (1887–1974), on his 100th birthday , series of publications from the Eichstätt University Library in 1987 (on the Mayr exhibition in 1987)
  • Günther K. Viohl Franz X. Mayr, the spiritual father of the Jura-Museum , In: Geological Society of London, Special Publications , Volume 310, 2009, pp. 211-215

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 398
personal data
SURNAME Mayr, Franz Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, paleontologist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Pfronten , part of the municipality Ried
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1974
Place of death Eichstatt