Georg Böhm (geologist)

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Georg Böhm , also Boehm, (born December 21, 1854 in Frankfurt an der Oder , † March 18, 1913 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German paleontologist and geologist .

Life

Böhm was the son of a Jewish businessman and studied geology in Berlin, Strasbourg and Göttingen, where he received his doctorate in 1877. Then he was assistant to Karl Alfred von Zittel at the University of Munich, where he also did his military service in the artillery. He collected on extensive trips in Europe and Turkestan . In 1899 and 1902 he was also in the then Dutch Indonesia and New Zealand. In 1885 he completed his habilitation in Freiburg and in 1902 he became a full honorary professor of geology and paleontology. He was an employee of the Grand Ducal Baden State Geological Institute.

He dealt mainly with the Mesozoic era. His discoveries of marine fossils on the Sula Islands , Misool and Buru refuted a thesis advocated by Eduard Suess and Melchior Neumayr that the Moluccas continent existed in the Jura . He worked for Indonesia with the paleontologists Johannes Wanner and Lothar Krumbeck .

Böhm received the Officer's Cross of the Order of Orange and Nassau and was a Knight of the Zähringen Order of Lions, 1st class.

He had been married to the Hanoverian banker's daughter Ella Werthauer since 1890 and had two sons and their daughter Gerda, who became a doctor. His wife and daughter were deported to Camp de Gurs in 1940 and probably murdered in Auschwitz in 1944 . The son Gundo was able to leave for Switzerland in time.

He donated his ethnographic collections on the Moluccas to the University of Freiburg.

Fonts

  • A contribution to the knowledge of fossil ophiurs . 56 p., 2 plates, academic publishing bookstore by JCB Mohr, Freiburg i. B. 1889 (Reports of the Natural Research Society of Freiburg im Breisgau 1889, Volume IV, Issue V, pp. 232–287)
  • On fossil ophiurs. Journal of the German Geological Society, XLV, 1893, pp. 158–161
  • with Johannes Paul Felix , Hans Lenk , Alfred Gabriel Nathorst , Gustav Steinmann , August Hoppe: Contributions to the geology and palaeontology of the Republic of Mexico, 2 volumes 1889
  • Editor with Johannes Wanner and co-author: Contributions to the geology of the Dutch East Indies, Swiss beard

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  1. ↑ Remembering the Dead: Hidden Treasures IV: An ancestral figure from the Southern Moluccas. Badische Zeitung, November 4, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Bohm, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boehm, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt Oder
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1913
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau