Heinrich Zugmayer

Heinrich Zugmayer (born May 10, 1841 in Waldegg , † July 25, 1917 in Marienbad ) was an Austrian geologist , paleontologist and entrepreneur.

Life

His main occupation was the owner of the metal goods factory G. Zugmayer and Sons, whose founder was his grandfather, and a commercial advisor. In 1872 he became a partner in the family company with his brother Karl.

He also explored his native Piestingtal in Lower Austria, where he made contributions to the stratigraphy and palaeontology ( brachiopods ) of the Rhaetian . This occurred near his hometown near the village of Peisching as a fossil-rich ( bonebed ) reddish breccia with which the inhabitants walled their vineyards. In addition, he was also able to find and describe information (at a weir on the Kaisersteffel).

From 1874 he was a correspondent for the kk Imperial Geological Institute in Vienna. He was the first to describe the brachiopod genus Thecospira ZUGMAYER in 1882.

He was the father of the zoologist and explorer Erich Zugmayer .

Honors

The Triassic brachiopod genera Zugmayeria WAAGEN 1882 and Zugmayerella DAGYS 1963 were named after Heinrich Zugmayer .

Fonts

• About boned-like occurrences in the Dachstein limestone of the Piestingthales, Yearbook of the Imperial-Royal Geological Institute, Volume 25, 1875, 79-88 BHL
• About petrefacts from the Viennese sandstone of the Leopoldsberg, Verh. Kk Geol. Reichsanstalt 1875, 292 BHL
• Investigations on Rhaetian brachiopods, contributions to the palaeontology and geology of Austria-Hungary and the Orient 1, 1880, pp. 1-42 archives
• The connection of the spiral cones of Spirigera oxycolpos Emmr. sp., Contributions to the Paleontology of Austria-Hungary and the Orient 1 (4), 1882, pp. 333–334 Archives

literature

• M. Vacek: Obituary during the negotiations of the Imperial Geological Institute in 1917, p. 201, pdf

Web links

• Josef Mliner: Josef Zugmayer, manufacturer and geologist, Waldegger Chronik, 2004, No. 2, pdf
• Entry by H. Zugmayer in the Paleobiology Database