Hans Peter Cornelius

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Hans Peter Cornelius (born September 29, 1888 in Munich , † April 2, 1950 in Naßwald an der Rax) was a German geologist and petrograph , who was a leading expert on alpine geology at the time.

Life

He was the son of the philosopher Hans Cornelius and studied after graduating from high school in 1905 at the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich and Zurich with Albert Heim and Ulrich Grubenmann . In 1911 he received his doctorate in Zurich under Ulrich Grubenmann (petrographic examinations in the mountains between Septimer - and Julierpass ) and was then assistant at the Mineralogical Institute of the ETH Zurich . In 1913 he became self-employed, was a soldier and military geologist in World War I and then freelance in Munich again. In 1921 he married Marta Cornelius-Furlani (1886–1974), who had a doctorate in geology, and moved to Vienna, where he was at the Federal Geological Institute from 1928 to 1941 . He turned down an academic career in order to devote himself entirely to field work.

As a geologist, he mainly worked as a mapping geologist in the entire Alps, combining tectonic and petrographic studies, especially on the connection between tectonics and metamorphosis of rocks. He wrote monographs on the Err-Julier Group (1935) and, with his friend Eberhard Clar, on the geology of the Großglockner area (1939).

In 1941 he became a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He was a mountaineer from his youth. Most recently he worked on a monograph on the Venediger Group. He died of a heart attack in the mountains while the geological map of the Schneeberg was being taken. He never came up with a synthesis of Alpine geology in book form.

Fonts

  • Geology of the Err-Julier Group in three parts. Contributions to the geological map of Switzerland, new series 70. Delivery parts I - III, Bern 1935, 1950, 1951.
  • with Clar: Geology of the Großglockner area 1, treatises of the Vienna branch of the Reich Office for Soil Research 25.1, 1939 (305 pages, 1 map)
  • Rocks and tectonics in the eastern section of the northern Alpine Grauwackenzone, from the eastern edge of the Alps to the Aflenz basin. Mitt. Geol. Ges. Vienna 42. – 43. Volume (1949/50), 1-234.
  • Rocks and tectonics in the eastern section of the Eastern Alpine Grauwackenzone, 1952
  • with Furlani-Cornelius: The Insubrian Line from Ticino to the Tonale Pass, Memoranda of Acad. Wiss. Vienna, 102, 1930, 207–301.
  • The geology of the Schneeberg area: (Explanations for the geological map of the Schneeberg 1: 25000), Federal Geological Institute 1951
  • The geology of the Mürz Valley area: Explanations for the Mürzzuschlag sheet (1: 75000), Federal Geological Institute 1952
  • with Cornelius-Furlani: Fundamentals of general geology, Springer 1953

literature

  • Eberhard Clar, obituary in negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1951, pp. 84–91 ( digitized version )
  • Hans Leitmeier, obituary in Tschermaks Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, Volume 2, Issue 2, 1951, pp. 153–156
  • ÖBL author:  Cornelius, Hans Peter. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 154 f. (Direct links on p. 154 , p. 155 ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report on the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich 1904/05 p.?.
  2. ^ New Yearbook for Geology and Mineralogy 35, 1912, pp. 374–498.
  3. ↑ He took up the geological map of Mürzzuschlag from 1928 to 1935
personal data
SURNAME Cornelius, Hans Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1950
Place of death Wet forest