Franz Xaver Schnittmann

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Schnittmann Pavilion in Neustadt an der Donau

Franz Xaver Schnittmann (born January 18, 1888 in Neustadt an der Donau ; † February 16, 1976 there ) was a German pastor , teacher , palaeontologist and geologist .

Schnittmann went to high school in Regensburg , where he studied Catholic theology and was ordained in 1912. He was pastor in Schmidgaden , Großmehring and Hirschau , where he also studied local geology and paleontology, especially in the Lias of Ehenfeld near Hirschau. In 1920 he received his doctorate in geology with Jakob Beckenkamp on contributions to the stratigraphy of the Upper Palatinate: Stratigraphy and tectonics by Ehenfeld in Würzburg . There he then studied natural sciences for the teaching qualification with the state examination in 1922. During the practical teacher training in Nuremberg, he made contacts with the Erlangen Geological Institute (to the professor and conservator Lothar Krumbeck (1878–1958), later Bruno von Freyberg , Florian Heller , Friedrich Birzer ) . From 1923 to 1926 he studied Alpine geology from the University of Friborg in Switzerland. He received a varied education, so that he later worked both as a palaeontologist and as a petrograph investigating thin sections of the crystalline basement in Bavaria. In 1926 he became a study assessor and later a teacher in Hammelburg . There he supported the regional geologists Otto Maria Reis and Matthäus Schuster with various geological mappings, such as von Hammelburg. He continued this after moving to high school in Amberg in 1938 (maps Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Ambach, Hirschau, Rieden), bearing the costs himself, but making the results available to the Bavarian State Geological Office, which therefore made him a corresponding member did. In 1953 he retired as a professor (which he was from 1948) and in 1957 went to his hometown Neustadt, where he also mapped.

He was an honorary member of the Natural Science Association of Regensburg and an honorary citizen of Neustadt an der Donau.

literature

  • H. Ziehr: On the 80th birthday of Dr. Franz Xaver Schnittmann, Acta Albertina Ratisbonensia, 29, 1969, 112–114 (with list of publications)
  • W. Treibs: Obituary for Franz Xaver Schnittmann (1888–1976), Geologica Bavarica, 78, 1979

Fonts

  • The scree of the Danube and its tributaries from the Black Forest to Weltenburg, Acta Albertina Ratisbonensia, 23, 1959/60, No. 1, 5-35

References and comments

  1. ↑ Partially published in the journal of the German Geolog. Ges., 74, 1922, 1-22
personal data
SURNAME Editor, Franz Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor, teacher, paleontologist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt an der Donau
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1976
Place of death Neustadt an der Donau