Hartwig Schuett

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Hartwig Schütt (born June 15, 1923 in Kiel , † December 14, 2009 in Düsseldorf ) was a German malacologist and chemist .

Life

Schütt graduated from high school in Kiel in 1941 and was a soldier on the Eastern Front until 1945. He then studied chemistry in Hamburg and Kiel and received his doctorate in 1952 under Karl Wilhelm Rosenmund (A synthesis of hydroaromatic lactones). He then worked as a chemist at Henkel . There he rose to head of the fatty alcohol operations in 1965, became the main department manager in 1969 and department director in 1974. In 1986 he retired. He was involved in 281 patents.

As a malacologist, he mainly dealt with land snails from Southeastern Europe (Yugoslavia, Greece), the Middle East (Israel, Jordan, Syria) and especially Turkey, to which he undertook 20 large collecting trips. For example, he published on cave-dwelling and subterranean molluscs and fossilized mollusks of the Tertiary and Quaternary periods. He wrote a standard work on land mollusks in Turkey. The first and second editions of the book brought him the criticism of the Working Group Turkish Internal Mollusks (ATB) in 1996, which criticized various errors and, in general, the unilateral publication. In the following editions he revised the book again and again.

From 1977 to 1990 he was the first chairman of the German Malacoological Society. In 1993 he became an honorary member.

He was married twice, he had a daughter from his first marriage and four sons from his second marriage to Erika Lunau.

Fonts

  • Turkish Landschnecken, Hemmen-Wiesbaden 1993, 5th edition as Turkish Landsnails. 1758–2005 , Verlag Natur und Wissen, Solingen 2010

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References and comments

  1. ↑ RA Bank u. a .: The second edition of Schütt's book (1996; "Landschnecken der Turkey"): a declaration from the "Arbeitsgruppe Türkische Binnenmollusken", Mitt. Deutsche Malakozoologische Gesellschaft, Volume 59, 1997, pp. 37-38, reply from Schütt S. 39-40
personal data
SURNAME Schütt, Hartwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German malacologist and chemist
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 2009
Place of death Dusseldorf