Hans Georg Stehlin (paleontologist)

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Hans Georg Stehlin (born January 13, 1870 in Basel ; † November 18, 1941 ibid) was a Swiss paleontologist and zoologist who dealt in particular with fossil mammals from the Tertiary .

He was a son of Karl Rudolf Stehlin and brother of the architect Fritz Stehlin and the lawyer and private scholar Karl Stehlin . In 1893 he received his doctorate in zoology under Ludwig Rütimeyer . He was head of the osteology department at the Natural History Museum Basel and from 1920 until his death in 1941 head of the museum commission (and thus director). As with his predecessor Fritz Sarasin (1859–1942), this position was voluntary. Stehlin was a private scholar and since 1896 a volunteer at the museum.

He collected fossil tertiary mammals many times in France, for example in Senèze in Auvergne . In 1916 he dug in the Cotencher cave .

In 1910 he defined a mass extinction especially of mammals in Europe at the turn of the Eocene to the Oligocene , called Grande Coupure (large cut) by him .

Samuel Schaub was one of his employees in Basel (and his successor at the museum) .

In 1901 Ehrenfried Schenkel (1869–1953) named the Gran Canaria giant lizard Gallotiastehlini after him (Stehlin collected the holotype in Gran Canaria in 1895 ).

Fonts

  • Hans Georg Stehlin (Ed.): L. Rütimeyer. Collected small writings of general content from the field of natural science. Along with an autobiographical sketch. Volume I Autobiography. Zoological writings . Georg & Cie., Basel 1898 ( archive )
  • Hans Georg Stehlin (Ed.): L. Rütimeyer. Collected small writings of general content from the field of natural science. Along with an autobiographical sketch. Volume II Geographical Writings, Necrologe, List of Publications . Georg & Cie., Basel 1898 ( archive )
  • The mammals of the Swiss Eocene. Critical catalog of the materials , treatises of the Swiss Paleontological Society, Zurich, 7th part, 2nd half, volume 41, 1916, archives
  • with Samuel Schaub: Die Trigonodontie der simplicidentaten rodents , Swiss Paläontologische Abhandlungen, Volume 67, 1951
  • Hans Georg Stehlin (Ed.): The mammals of the Swiss Eocaens, reprint 2014 ISBN 978-3-7372-0033-2

literature

  • Samuel Schaub: Hans Georg Stehlin (1870–1941), Negotiations of the Natural Research Society in Basel, Volume 54, 1943, pp. 183–221
  • Bernhardt Peyer: Hans Georg Stehlin, Negotiations of the Swiss Natural Research Society, 1942, pp. 319–325

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Urs Rahm: Historisches, in: Otto Wittmann (editor): Rarities and Curiosities of Nature: The Collections of the Natural History Museum Basel, Birkhäuser 1980, p. 11
  2. ↑ Stehlin: Remarques sur les faunules de Mammifères des couches eocenes et oligocenes du Bassin de Paris, Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 4, 1910, pp. 488-520
  3. ↑ Beolens u. a. Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles, Johns Hopkins University Press 2011
  4. ^ Ehrenfried Schenkel: Eighth addendum to the catalog of the herpetological collection of the Basel Museum. Negotiations of the natural research society Basel 13, 1901; Pp. 142-199. ( Full text )
personal data
SURNAME Stehlin, Hans Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1941
Place of death Basel