Hans Walter Schaub

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Hans Walter Schaub (born September 29, 1913 in Bottmingen ; † October 3, 1994 in Reigoldswil ) was a Swiss geologist and paleontologist .

biography

Schaub was the son of teacher Walter Schaub and Emma Herzog. He went to school in Binningen and to the mathematical and natural science high school in Basel (renamed during his school days, previously Obere Realschule), where he received his Matura in 1932. He then studied botany, zoology, mathematics and geography (or geosciences) at the University of Basel and became a teacher (1937 secondary teacher examination and 1941 senior teacher examination in biology). In addition, he performed longer military service (first as a mountain paramedic, later he was quartermaster), studied from 1938 to 1948 in addition to zoology and botany , geology and mineralogy and received a doctorate in geology. In his dissertation he dealt with the stratigraphy of the Schlierenflysch, in which he found nummulites. In 1951 he published a fundamental monograph on this . From 1945 to 1959 he was a teacher at the Realgymnasium in Basel. He was partly on leave for his scientific work and supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. After his habilitation in 1958, he was at the chair of Louis Vonderschmitt in Basel as a private lecturer in geology and palaeontology. In 1959 he became director of the Natural History Museum in Basel , whose public presentation he modernized. From 1960 he was also an associate professor for geology (stratigraphy) at the University of Basel and was therefore suspended from teaching. In 1979 he retired and moved to Reigoldswil.

Schaub was an expert in micropalaeontology , especially nummulites . In addition to Switzerland, he examined them particularly in the Pyrenees . In 1981 he published a major three-volume monograph on nummulites of Tethys in the Tertiary ( Paleogene ). He compared the nummulites at different localities of the Tethys in the lower Tertiary and found layer gaps in the Paris basin , which had been considered a type region until then , which he was able to fill with studies from the Pyrenees and Switzerland. With Lukas Hottinger , he introduced the Llerdien (named after the Catalan Llerida ) as a new shift level in 1960 . He was able to establish the Schlierenflysch as an independent tectonic unit (continuous sedimentation in small cycles from Upper Cretaceous to Ypresian ).

In the museum, he made sure that the scientific collection was separated from the public collection and that the type specimens were safely stored in a three-story storage cellar (safe from disasters such as the loss of large parts of the collection in World War II ). The collections from the Deep Sea Drilling Project also found their place there. Since 1950 he has been working on the Geological Atlas of Switzerland (Blätter Alpnach , Sörenberg ).

Like his father, he was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP). From 1954 to 1984 he was on the Education Council of Basel and from 1964 to 1976 a member of the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt . In 1963 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the Council of States to succeed Hans-Peter Tschudi . In the 1960s he actively supported the reunification of the two Basel half-cantons .

From 1950 he was a member of the Swiss Geological Commission. In 1993 he became an honorary member at the Micropalaeontological Congress in Paris .

He was married twice. After the death of his first wife in 1944, he married Esther Nidecker in 1946, with whom he had three children.

literature

  • PA Soder: Prof. Dr. Hans Schaub 1913–1994, in: Bulletin Swiss Association of Petroleum Geologists and Engineers, Volume 61, No. 139, 1994, SS 85–87.
  • Hans Schaub on the eightieth, in: Basler Zeitung, September 29, 1993.

Fonts

Except for the works cited in the footnotes.

  • with L.Vonderschmitt - Recent investigations in Schlierenflysch, Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, Volume 36, 1943, pp. 207-215
  • with L.Hottinger: On the classification of the paleocaen and the eocaen. Introduction of the Ilerdien and Biarritzien stages, Eclogae Geol. Helv., Volume 53, 1960, pp. 453-480.
  • Schlierenflysch (with an article on nannoplankton by WW Hay and HP Mohler), Bull. Ver. Switzerland. Petroleum geol u. Ing., 1965, pp. 124-134
  • with C.Kapellos: On the correlation of biozonations with large foraminifera and nannoplankton in the paleogene of the Pyrenees, Eclogae Geol. Helv., Volume 66, 1973, pp. 687-737
  • with C.Kapellos: L'Ilerdien dans les Alpes, dans les Pyrénées et en Crimée. Correlation des zones à grands Foraminifères et à Nannoplancton, Bull. Soc. géol. France, Vol. 17, 1975, pp. 148-161.
  • The Campo-Section (NE Spain), a tethyan parastratotype of the Cuisian, New Yearbook of Geology and Paleontology, Treatises, Volume 186, 1992, pp. 63-70.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bottmingen according to the entry in Franziska Schürch's personal dictionary Basel-Landschaft. After Soder, Sissach was his home town. He was a citizen of Sissach and Basel.
  2. ↑ Schaub, Stratigraphie und Paläontologie des Schlierenflysches with special consideration of the paleocaenen and unterocaenen Nummuliten and Assilinen, Switzerland. Paleont. Treatises, Volume 68, 1951 (222 pages)
  3. ↑ Schaub: Nummulites et Assilines de la tethys paléogène. Taxonomy, phylogénèse et biostratigraphie, Mém. Suisses de Paléont., Volumes 104 to 106, 1981
personal data
SURNAME Schaub, Hans Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss paleontologist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Bottmingen
DATE OF DEATH 3rd October 1994
Place of death Reigoldswil