Hans Pohlig

Hans Pohlig , also Johannes Pohlig , (born December 30, 1855 in Teplitz , † May 14, 1937 in Bonn ) was a German paleontologist and geologist .

He was the son of a bookseller and studied in Leipzig, Bonn, Göttingen and Munich. In 1877 he received his doctorate in Leipzig (The Archean District of Strehla). Then he was an assistant in Göttingen. In 1880 he completed his habilitation in Bonn. In 1891 he became an associate professor for geology at the University of Bonn. There he also taught geology at the Agricultural University. He died as a result of an accident.

He prepared reports on deposits (also a lot abroad) and was a research assistant at the Krantz natural produce store in Bonn. Pohlig was on research trips a. a. in Persia, Mexico, Italy and Spain. His collection of fossils from the Rott fossil deposit was acquired by the Geological-Mineralogical Institute in Halle (Saale) and described by Dietrich von Schlechtendal in 1887 .

The name of Paidopithex (1895), a fossil species of Old World monkeys , which is valid today, comes from Hans Pohlig . He was mainly concerned with tertiary vertebrates such as elephants and deer.

Dietrich von Schlechtendal named the fringed winged Phloeothrips pohligi Schlechtendal in his honor , 1887.

He was the brother of the conductor and composer Karl Pohlig (1859–1928).

Fonts

• A trip to the Caspian primeval forests and the Persian highlands. In: Our time, year 1888, Volume 1, Leipzig, FA Brockhaus, 1888. pp. 97–107
• Ice Age and Human Prehistory: according to his lectures. Quelle and Meyer, Leipzig 1907 ( Archives ), 2nd edition 1911, 3rd edition 1918
• From the fairytale land of 1001 nights. Observations and adventures of a geologist in northern Persia. 1909
• Geological walks. 1914
• Beneckeia subdenticulata POHLIG from the red dolomite of Jena . In: Journal of the German Geological Society, 66, Berlin 1914, p. 266

literature

• Entry in Rudolf Vierhaus u. a. German Biographical Encyclopedia, De Gruyter, Saur