Hans-Peter Schultze
Hans-Peter Schultze (born August 13, 1937 in Swinoujscie ) is a German vertebrate paleontologist.
Life
Schultze studied after graduating from high school in 1956 in Offenburg geology at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg and the University of Tübingen , where he earned his diploma in 1962 as a geologist and 1965 as a student of Walter Robert Gross doctorate was. As a post-doctoral student he was at the Natural History Museum in Stockholm and from 1967 he was a lecturer and from 1971 associate professor in paleontology at the University of Göttingen. In 1970/71 he was from the German Academic Exchange Service at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. From 1978 he was first assistant professor and from 1987 professor at the Museum of Natural History at the University of Kansas . From 1994 until his retirement in 2004, Schultze was Professor of Paleozoology and Director of the Museum of Natural History ( Humboldt University Berlin).
Research priorities
He is mainly concerned with the morphology and evolution of fossil fish and early terrestrial vertebrates. He has done extensive work on the large group systematics v. a. composed by bony fish.
honors and awards
- In 2006 he became an honorary member of the Paleontological Society
- In 2014 he received the Romer-Simpson Medal of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
- Among other things, the species Janusiscus schultzei was named after him
Fonts
- Schultze: The roof of the skull of a ceratodontid lungfish from the Triassic period of southern Germany (Dipnoi, Pisces). Stuttgart contributions to natural history, B 70, 31 p., 17 fig., Stuttgart 1981
- Schultze, Arriatia, Wilson (editor) Mesozoic Fishes , Volume 2, 1999, Volume 4, 2008, Munich, F. Pfeil
- Schultze, Linda Trueb (Editor) Origins of the higher groups of tetrapods: controversy and consensus , Comstock Publishing 1991
- Schultze, Clouthier (editor) Devonian fishes and plants of Miguasha, Quebec, Canada , Munich, F. Pfeil 1996
- Schultze and others: Type and figured specimens of fossil vertebrates in the collection of the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History , 4 volumes, University of Kansas 1982-1987
literature
- Richard Cloutier Hans-Peter Schultze, a great paleoichthyologist for whom work is synonymous to enjoyment , Mitteilungen Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Geowiss. Series, Volume 5, 2002, pp. 5-17
- Gloria Arriatia, Mark VH Wilson, Richard Cloutier (editors) Recent advances in the origin an early radiation of vertebrates: honoring Hans-Peter Schultze , Munich, F. Pfeil, 2004
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Described as Assistant Professor and later Associate Professor in his English-language résumé in American Men and Women of Science
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans-Peter Schultze in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schultze, Hans-Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Swinoujscie |