Günter Krumbiegel

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Günter Krumbiegel (born February 25, 1926 in Leipzig- Lindenau, † December 22, 2014 in Halle ) was a German paleontologist .

Life

Krumbiegel attended the Helmholtz-Gymnasium in Leipzig from 1940 to 1943, but was only able to do his Abitur in 1949 because of the war. From 1949 he studied geology and paleontology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg with a diploma in 1953 and a doctorate in 1957 ( The limestone deposits in lignite in Central Germany ). From 1958 until his retirement in 1992 he was curator and director of the Geiseltal Museum in Halle (Saale) .

He dealt in particular with the geology and paleontology of tertiary lignite in the Geiseltal near Halle and with amber research (especially from Saxony-Anhalt, the amber deposits in the Goitzsche open-cast lignite mine near Bitterfeld ), working closely with the Muzeum Ziemi of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has published several books that are also popular science. In total, he wrote over 400 scientific publications.

He was married to Brigitte Krumbiegel, with whom he also published. In 2004 he became an honorary member of the International Amber Association in Gdansk. In 2009 he became an honorary member of the Association of Friends and Patrons of the Bitterfeld District Museum for his support of the Bernstein working group.

Fonts

  • with Harald Walther : Fossils: Collecting, preparing, determining, evaluating. Enke Verlag, 1982 (also as dtv paperback).
  • with Brigitte Krumbiegel: Fossils of the Earth's History. Enke Verlag, Stuttgart 1981.
  • Ancient animals and plants. (= Accent series . Volume 25). 5th edition, Urania Verlag, 1989.
  • with Brigitte Krumbiegel Bernstein. Fossil resins from all over the world , Quelle and Meyer, 3rd edition 2005
  • The Bitterfeld Amber (Succinite) , in Werner K. Weidert Classical Sites of Paleontology , Volume 3, Goldschneck Verlag 1995 (with biography)
  • with Ludwig Rüffle, Hartmut Haubold The Eocene Geiseltal: a Central European lignite deposit and its flora and fauna , Wittenberg, Ziemsen 1983 (Die neue Brehm Bücherei, Volume 237, first by Krumbiegel 1959)
  • with Max Schwab : Saalestadt Halle and surroundings. A geological guide , 2 volumes, Halle 1974

literature

  • Obituary by Roland Wimmer, Meinolf Hellmund, GMIT, No. 61, September 2015, pp. 90–91

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to Weidert (ed.) Classical sites of paleontology , 1995 and obituary in GMIT 2015
personal data
SURNAME Krumbiegel, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig- Lindenau
DATE OF DEATH 22nd December 2014
Place of death Hall