Heinz Kollmann
Heinz Albert Kollmann (born November 2, 1939 ) is an Austrian paleontologist .
Kollmann studied geology and palaeontology (with Othmar Kühn ) at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate there in 1963 on the Gosau group in Gams and its stratigraphic structure with foraminifera . In 1962 he became an employee of the Natural History Museum in Vienna , where he headed the geological and palaeontological department since 1979, succeeding Friedrich Bachmayer . From 1988 to 1994 he was the museum's first director.
He is a specialist gastropods of chalk , not only the Alps but also among others in Greece, Northern Germany, Texas, from Greenland and the Paris Basin. Kollmann also wrote popular science books. In 1973/74 he spent a year studying gastropods at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History .
He was co-chair of the IGCP's Tethyan Cretaceous Correlation Working Group . 1979 to 1981 and 1990 to 1993 he was President of the Austrian Paleontological Society. In 1997 he organized the 2nd European Paleontological Congress in Vienna with Dave Ferguson.
In 1982 he received the Silver Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria , in 1995 the Ferdinand von Hochstetter Medal from the Natural History Museum Vienna and in 2000 the Othenio Abel Prize.
Fonts
- with Herbert Summesberger Gosau, experienced, researched , Verlag Berger 1975
- with Friedrich Bachmayer, Helmuth Zapfe Treasures in the ground - Austria's soil through the ages , 1964, 1969, 1981
- with C. Faber Giants of Primeval Times , 1985
- with another 100 steps of geological history. The history of the earth and life in the Natural History Museum in Vienna , Natural History Museum Vienna 2004
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| SURNAME | Kollmann, Heinz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kollmann, Heinz Albert (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 2, 1939 |