Georg Gürich

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Georg Julius Ernst Gürich (born September 25, 1859 in Guttentag , † August 16, 1938 in Berlin ) was a German geologist , mineralogist , petrograph and paleontologist .

Life

Gürich, son of a teacher and organist in Guttentag, studied in Breslau from 1879 with his doctorate in 1883 and the teaching qualification exam in 1884. From 1884 to 1891 he was assistant to Ferdinand von Roemer in Breslau, from 1887 as a private lecturer. From 1894 to 1910 he was a grammar school teacher in Breslau, but also gave lectures at the university and mapped in Silesia for the Prussian Geological State Institute , where he had worked since 1901.

In 1885 he traveled to Africa for the first time in the expedition of Eduard Robert Flegel (Nigeria, West Sudan), which he evaluated for his habilitation in 1887 (contributions to the geology of West Africa), and in 1888/89 for the South West African Gold Syndicate in search of mineral resources in German South West Africa (now Namibia ). In 1928/29 he was again in Namibia and South Africa. He also traveled to Australia, Venezuela (1890 on behalf of Hamburg merchants) and Alaska. On a trip to Africa (Kilimanjaro area) in 1914, he was surprised by the First World War and was interned by the British in East and South Africa until 1915.

In 1910 he became director of the Mineralogical-Geological State Institute and professor at the German Colonial Institute in Hamburg. In 1919 he became professor of geology and paleontology at the University of Hamburg. In 1933 he retired and moved to Berlin.

Gürich was a pioneer of geology in German South West Africa. In addition to the geology of Africa, he dealt with the geology of Silesia ( Giant Mountains ), the Paleozoic of Silesia and Poland and the Quaternary and Tertiary in Northern Germany (petroleum geology). He has made around 215 publications.

The first descriptions of Dactylosaurus ( Pachypleurosauria ), the Gavial genus Gryposuchus and Cyamodus tarnowitzensis are from him. During his expedition, the Ediacaran fauna was discovered on Farm Aar .

Memberships

honors and awards

  • In 1898 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Fonts

  • About some dinosaurs of the Upper Silesian Muschelkalk. In: Journal of the German Geological Society, XXXVI, Plate II, Berlin 1884, pp. 125–144
  • About Dactylosaurus. In: Journal of the German Geological Society, XXXVIII, 1 fig., Berlin 1886, pp. 457–458
  • Geological guide in the Giant Mountains, Borntraeger, Geological Guide Collection 6, 1900
  • The Paleozoic of the Polish Central Uplands, Negotiations of the Russian Imperial Society in Saint Petersburg, 2nd series, Volume 32, 1896, pp. 1–539, supplements in New Yearbook f. Geology, Paleontology and Mineralogy, Volume 13, 1900, 331–388
  • Contributions to the geology of West Africa 1887 (habilitation)
  • Devon von Debnik near Krakow, contributions to the paleontology and geology of Austria − Hungary and the Orient, Volume 15, 1903, pp. 127–164.
  • Das Mineralreich, Hausschatz des Wissens series , J. Neumann Verlag, Neudamm 1900
  • German South West Africa. Travel pictures and sketches from the years 1888 and 1889, Hamburg: L. Friedrichsen 1891
  • Geological overview map of Silesia 1: 400,000, Breslau 1890
  • Gryposuchus Jessei, a new narrow-snouted crocodile from the younger deposits of the upper Amazon region, in: Mitt. From d. Mineralog.-Geolog. Inst. In Hamburg 1, 1912, p. 59
  • Earth shaping and geological history, 1928
  • Mimaster hexagonalis, a new crust from the Lower Devonian Bundenbacher Dachschiefer, Paläontologische Zeitschrift, Volume 13, 1931, pp 204-238
  • The Kuibis Fossils of the Nama Formation of South West Africa, Paleontological Journal, Volume 15, 1933, p. 137
  • Jurassic and Devonian Fossils from White Cliffs, Australia, New Yearbook of Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology,
  • Supplement volume 14, 1901, pp. 484-518
  • He was editor of the book series Leitfossilien (from 1908) in the Borntraeger Verlag.

literature

  • Johann Wysogórski : Introduction . In: Communications from the Mineralogical-Geological State Institute in Hamburg , Volume 14, 1933, pp. 1–16, with a list of publications (Festschrift dedicated to the long-time director of the Mineralogical-Geological State Institute, Professor Dr. Georg Gürich)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paläontological Journal , Volume 1, Issue 1, March 1914
personal data
SURNAME Gürich, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gürich, Georg Julius Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Hello
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1938
Place of death Berlin