Günther Schaumberg

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Günther Schaumberg (born June 28, 1922 in Eschwege ; † July 1, 2017 there ) was a German art educator , painter , fossil collector and amateur paleontologist .

biography

Schaumberg graduated from high school in Eschwege in 1940 , then served as a soldier in World War II and worked as a painter from 1945 to 1953. He then studied at the Werkakademie in Kassel to become an art teacher (graduated in 1957) and was an art teacher at the grammar school in Eschwege from 1959 to 1984 , where he had been a student himself. He also exhibited as a painter.

He also used his skills as an artist for fossil drawings and reconstructions.

From the 1950s he collected fossils, especially in the Eschwege region, and from the 1970s especially in the copper shale of the Richelsdorf Mountains, and became an internationally known expert on them. He worked particularly with the paleontologist Hans-Peter Schultze in Göttingen .

In 1976, he identified parts of the skeleton of Coelurosauravus as part of a flight apparatus and thus as the oldest reptile with proven gliding . From it come some first descriptions of fossil fish, such as the Euselachier Hopleacanthus richelsdorfensis 1982 Muensterichthys buergeri 1989. He described 1978 the coelacanth Coelacanthus granulatus new. Schaumberg demonstrated the relationship between the fauna of the Hessian-Thuringian copper slate with deposits of the same age in England, Russia and Greenland and published further descriptions of primeval sharks such as Vodnika .

Together with Hartmut Haubold , he wrote a book about the fossils of copper slate.

In 1987 he received the Zittel Medal and in 1997 was made an honorary doctorate from the University of Marburg . Also in 1987 he received the silver badge of honor of the Philippi Society and in 1990 the Philippi Medal for services to nature research in North Hesse .

His collection came to the Kassel Natural History Museum decades before his death .

Fonts

  • with Hartmut Haubold: Die Fossilien des Kupferschiefer , Neue Brehm Bücherei 333, 1985, 2nd edition 2006
  • On the trail of the “Flood” in the Richelsdorf Mountains . In: Der Aufschluss, Volume 21, 1970, pp. 259-265
  • Two new reptile finds ( Weigeltisaurus KUHN (?), Lepidosauria (?), Reptilia) from the copper slate of Richelsdorf (Perm, Hesse) . In: Philippia, Volume 3, 1976, pp. 3-8
  • Over a well-preserved dermal roof of the skull of Platysomus striatus AGASSIZ (Palaeonisciformes, Actinopterygii, Osteichthyes) from the copper shale from Richelsdorf (Perm, Hesse) . In: Geologisches Jahrbuch Hessen, Volume 104, 1976, pp. 39–42
  • First record of Elonichthus punctatus ALDINGER (Palaeonisciformes, Actinopterygii, Osteichthyes) in Central Europe, in the copper shale of Richelsdorf (Perm, Hesse ), Geolog. Yearbook Hessen, Volume 105, 1977, pp. 65-68
  • The Richelsdorf copper slate and its fossils , 4 parts. In: Der Aufschluss , Volume 28, 1977, pp. 81-104, 189-198, 297-352, 427-442
  • New knowledge about the anatomy of Janassa bituminosa (Schl.), Holocephali, Chondrichthyes, from the Permian copper shale . In: Paläontologische Zeitschrift , Volume 53, 1979, pp. 334-346
  • New evidence of bryozoa and brachiopods as food for the Permian holocephalic Janassa bituminosa (SCHLOTHEIM) . In: Philippia , Volume 4, 1979, pp. 3-11
  • Paleozoic reptiles in Northern Hesse . In: Philippia , Vol. 5, 1982, pp. 3-10
  • Copper slate and its fossilized animal and plant remains from ancient times . In: Erich Hildebrand (ed.): Land an Werra and Meißner. Ein Heimatbuch , Korbach 1983, 1990, pp. 185–190
  • About little-known acrolepids from the Upper Permian copper shale and Marl-Slate of Germany and NE England . In: Philippia , Volume 7, 1996, pp. 325-354
  • Additions to the revision of the Euselachier "Wodnika striatula" MÜNSTER 1843 from the Upper Permian copper slate and Marl Slate . In: Geologica et Palaeontologica , Volume 33, 1999, pp. 203-217
  • with David M. Unwin and Silvio Brandt: New information on the Late Permian gliding reptile "Coelurosauravus" . In: Paläontologische Zeitschrift , Volume 81, No. 2, 2007, pp. 160-173
  • Rare examples of presumed sexual dimorphism in the vertebrate fauna of the late Paleozoic . In: Philippia . Volume 14 (4), 2010, pp. 289-298.

literature

  • Cornelia Kurz: Günther Schaumberg 1922–2017 . In: GMIT, 69, September 2017, p. 110
  • Karl Kollmann, Günter Naujok: Günther Schaumberg: Painter and art educator and paleontologist from Eschwege . District town of Eschwege (publisher), G. Wollenhaupt Großalmerode, Eschwege 1997, 96 p. (With extensive catalog raisonné, some of which include around 150 images)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Described in Schaumberg: Hopleacanthus richelsdorfensis ngnsp., A Euselachian from the Permian copper slate of Hesse . In: Paläontologische Zeitschrift , Volume 56, 1982, pp. 235-257
  2. ↑ Described in Schaumberg: Muensterichthys buergeri ngnsp., A new Palaeoniscoide (Actinopterygii, Pisces) from the Permian copper schist from Richelsdorf (Hesse, West Germany) . In: Paläontologische Zeitschrift , Volume 63, 1989, pp. 119-131
  3. ^ Schaumberg: New description of Coelacanthus granulatus Ag. (Actinistia, Pisces) from the copper shale of Richelsdorf (Perm, W. Germany) . In: Paläontologische Zeitschrift , Volume 52, 1978, pp. 169–197
  4. ↑ The Weigeltisaurus discoveries coelurosauravus were assigned at a later revaluation
personal data
SURNAME Schaumberg, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fossil collector, art educator, painter, amateur paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Eschwege
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 2017
Place of death Eschwege