Gundolf Ernst

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Gundolf Ernst (born August 29, 1930 in Hamburg , † April 25, 2002 in Berlin ) was a German geologist .

Gundolf Eduard Wilhelm Ernst was the third child of Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Ernst (1888–1953, geologist at the University of Hamburg ) and his wife Elisabeth, b. Thumes. His older brother was the physicist Hans-Wolfgang Ernst . In 1932 the family moved from Hamburg to Ahrensburg, where they came into contact with the archaeologist Alfred Rust , who had a very stimulating effect on the young Gundolf. After graduating from the Stormarn School in 1951, he studied geology at the University of Hamburg until 1956.

In his geological studies Ernst dealt very intensively with the chalk deposits near Lägerdorf and rock formations in Bosnia , on which he finally wrote his doctoral thesis in 1961 in the field of mineralogy . He then worked for the geologist Roland Brinkmann at the University of Bonn . He specialized in the study of the deposits from the Cretaceous Age , in particular the sea ​​urchin petrifications. From 1964 to 1976 he was a paleontologist at the Technical University of Braunschweig , where he completed his habilitation in geology and palaeontology in 1969. In 1976 he received a professorship at the Free University of Berlin , where he worked until his retirement. His geological research during the Cretaceous Period took him to many countries, including England, Spain, Poland, Tanzania and the Adriatic.

Fonts (selection)

  • Knowledge of the green rocks and sediments of the southwestern Zlatibor massif (Bosnia), dissertation Hamburg 1961
  • The irregular echinids of the north-west German Upper Cretaceous: their phylogeny, ecomorphology and stratigraphy, Braunschweig 1970/72 habilitation thesis
  • Biostratigraphy of the Miocene in the area of ​​Wacken (Westholstein), with Winfried Hinsch, Hanover and Braunschweig 1972
  • New results on the multistratigraphy, sedimentology and paleecology of the Upper Cretaceous from Lower Saxony and Westphalia with special consideration of the Cenoman to Coniac (with D.-D. Dahmer and H. Hilbrecht), Berlin 1986

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ life data according to https://e-docs.geo-leo.de/bitstream/handle/11858/00-1735-0000-0001-33A7-9/1995-ernst.pdf?sequence=1
personal data
SURNAME Ernst, Gundolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 2002
Place of death Berlin