Frederick Everard Zeuner

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Frederick Everard Zeuner (actually Friedrich Eberhardt; born March 8, 1905 in Berlin , † November 5, 1963 in London ) was a German-British geologist and paleontologist .

Life

Zeuner studied geology and paleontology in Berlin, Tübingen and Breslau. In 1928 he received his doctorate in Breslau, where he had been an assistant since 1925 (Diluvialstratigraphy and Diluvialtektonk in the area of ​​the Glatzer Neisse). In 1931 he completed his habilitation in Freiburg im Breisgau (The insect fauna of Böttinger marble). As a Jew, he was forced to emigrate to England in 1934.

Zeuner worked at the British Museum from 1934, from 1936 lecturer in geochronology and from 1946 professor and head of the department of geochronology of the Archaeological Institute of the University of London. He was a member of the Paleontological Society and from 1954 to 1956 chairman of the Geological Society .

He provided significant work on geochronology , the geology and paleontology of the Quaternary, and the domestication of animals. From 1952 he was a member of the Leopoldina . In 1954 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

  • About some beetles from the German Keuper. In: Yearbook of the Prussian Geological State Institute 51, 1930, pp. 462–467
  • The tribal history of the beetles. About the relationship between the form of the organs and their function I. In: Palaeontologische Zeitschrift, 15, 4, 1933, pp. 280–311
  • Dating the past. An Introduction to Geochronology, 1946, 4th edition 1958, reprinted 1972
  • A History of Domesticated Animals. Hutchinson & co, London (1963)
    • German: history of domestic animals. Bayerischer Landwirtschaftsverlag, Munich Basel Vienna (1967)

literature

  • Lexicon of natural scientists . Berlin 2004
  • Vierhaus (Ed.), German Biographical Encyclopedia, Saur, de Gruyter

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Frederick Zeuner at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 17, 2015.
  2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 266.
personal data
SURNAME Zeuner, Frederick Everard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zeuner, Friedrich Eberhardt (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 1963
Place of death London