Friedrich Ludolf Denckmann

Friedrich Ludolf Denckmann , also Friedrich Louis Denckmann , (born June 9, 1820 in Hildesheim , † May 13, 1916 in Hanover ) was a German pastor, paleontologist and fossil collector.

Denckmann's father was the soap manufacturer and later Senator Ernst August Denckmann, his mother was Henriette Conradine Lucie, nee. Baumgarten, a Hildesheim citizen's daughter. Denckmann attended the Andreaneum high school in Hildesheim. From 1839 he studied theology and philology in Göttingen and obtained his doctorate. phil. He then worked in Hildesheim, where he founded the higher civil and commercial school. In 1856 he took up the second pastorate at the St. Mariae Jakobi Church in Salzgitter , where he stayed until 1896. In this office Denckmann also looked after the parishes of Kniestedt and grid .

Denckmann's interest in geology had been aroused by the two Hildesheim geologists Hermann Roemer and Johannes Leunis . In his free time he developed into a recognized expert in this field. He put on an extensive collection of fossils from the Devonian of the Harz and the Lower Cretaceous , which later came to the Prussian Geological State Institute in Berlin and the Clausthal Mining Academy.

He was the father of the geologist August Denckmann .

literature

• Entry in Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 .
• Entry in Horst-Rüdiger Jarck u. a .: Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon , Hanover 1996
• Max Humburg - Pictures of Life from Salzgitter . In: Archives of the City of Salzgitter (Ed.): Contributions to the city's history . Salzgitter 1995, ISBN 3-930292-01-7 , p. 49-50 .

Web links

• University of Erlangen, registry entries, Wendebourg 1840
• German biography: Article about the son August Denckmann