Hans Reusch

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Hans Henrik Reusch (born September 5, 1852 in Bergen , † October 27, 1922 in Hvalstad , Asker ) was a Norwegian geologist.

Life

Reusch studied geology in Heidelberg , Leipzig and Oslo with the degrees candidate in 1875 and doctorate in 1883. He was a student of Theodor Kjerulf in Oslo . In the 1870s he published work with his then fellow student Waldemar Christofer Brøgger on apatite deposits and glacier pots in the Oslo region. He also worked a lot with Brøgger later on. From 1882 to 1885 he was an assistant at the university's mineral cabinet and then a university scholarship holder. In 1888 he became head of the geological survey of Norway (Norges geologiske undersøkelse). He also taught at times as a lecturer in physical geography at the University of Oslo (1902 to 1905 and from 1909) and was a visiting scholar at Harvard University in 1896/97 . He died in a railway accident.

His specialty was the geology of Vestlandet . He found the first fossils of the Silurian in the heavily metamorphic schists south of Bergen.

In 1877 and 1880 he was the first editor of the journal Naturen , which he had co-founded, and he published the series Norges geologiske undersøkelse (from 1890). In 1905 he received the Lyell Medal and in 1907 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Oxford University .

The Norwegian Geological Society has awarded him the Reusch Medal in his honor since 1926. Reusch and his wife founded a foundation to promote geology and geography in Norway. The Reusch Glacier in Antarctica is named in his honor .

He was married to the painter Helga Marie Ring Reusch (1865–1944), a student of Puvis de Chavannes and Erik Werenskiold .

Fonts

  • Norges Geologi , Norges geologiske undersøkelse, Volume 50, 1910, later edited and edited by Anton Mohr and Werner Werenskiold
  • Silurfossiler og pressede konglomorater i Bergensskifrene , 1882 (first description of fossils of the Silurian in Norway)
  • Bömmelöen og Karmöen med omgivelser geologisk beskrevne , 1888
  • Det nordlige Norges geologi 1891 (first description of the Paleozoic conglomerate of Varanger )
  • Volk og natur i Finmarken 1895
  • Geografi for Middelskolen , 1905
  • Landjordens physical geografi

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SURNAME Reusch, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reusch, Hans Henrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian geologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Mountains
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1922
Place of death Hvalstad