Heinz Kozur
Heinz Walter Kozur (born March 26, 1942 in Hoyerswerda ; † December 20, 2013 in Budapest ) was a German paleontologist and stratigraph .
Life
After graduating from high school, Heinz Kozur studied geology at the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg from 1961 to 1967 . He wrote his diploma thesis on the conodonts of mussel lime . For this he received the Georgius Agricola Medal, which the Freiberg Mining Academy awarded its students for outstanding achievements . Before completing his doctorate, he was head of the natural sciences department at the Meiningen State Museums . In 1971 he did his doctorate summa cum laude under Arno Hermann Müller with the dissertation micropalaeontology, biostratigraphy and biofacies of the Germanic Middle Triassic . In 1975 he completed his habilitation in Freiberg (also on biostratigraphy, facies studies and palaeogeography of the Triassic). He worked in Meiningen until 1981, but then left the GDR when he came into conflict with government agencies in the GDR and emigrated to Hungary for political reasons , where he worked at the geological survey. In 1985 he was released there under pressure from the GDR. He was married to a Hungarian woman. Since then he has been visiting professor at various universities (Jordan, Northern Arizona University, Palermo, Lausanne, Salzburg, Innsbruck, and after the fall of the Wall in Halle) and he did research for the Middle East University in Ankara and the Geological Survey of Japan.
From 1976 to 2007 he was in the IUGS sub-commission on Permian Stratigraphy (and was thereafter an honorary member) and since 1969 he has been in the sub-commission Trias. He was active in the international committees that set the limits of the Carboniferous Permian, Triassic Jura and Permian Triassic and defined the Guadelupian (middle Permian). An important key fossil that marks the beginning of the Triassic is the Conodont Hindeodus parvus , which was named by Kozur and Pjatkova in 1975. He dealt with paleoecology, particularly in the context of the Permian mass extinction ( Perm-Triassic border ) and on the Triassic-Jura border. He dealt with paleoecology and paleogeography of Pangea in the Triassic, especially in the Tethys and the Germanic Basin. He also conducted research on Variscan and Alpine tectonics in Europe and Cadomian to Cimmerian tectonics in Turkey. He contributed to the understanding of marine stratigraphy from Cambrian to Devonian and Carboniferous to Triassic (marine and terrestrial), especially in Central Europe.
As a paleontologist, he was particularly concerned with conodonts (important key fossils), radiolaria and conchostraca , their evolution and biostratigraphy, especially in the Triassic. At the Conchostraca he worked with Rob Weems. Using the Conchostraca biostratigraphy, he demonstrated that the Triassic-Jurassic transition took place at the same time as the breakup of the Pangea and the opening of the Atlantic in camp volcanism (Central Atlantic magmatic province) (and not before). He also dealt with fossil footprints, charophytes , ostracodes , sclerites of sea cucumbers , scolecodonts, megaspores .
Awards
- He was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 1984.
- 2012: Leopold von Buch plaque from the German Geological Society
Fonts
- Micropalaeontology, biostratigraphy and biofacies of the Germanic Middle Triassic. Dissertation Bergakademie Freiberg, 32 plates, 16 tables , Freiberg, 1970, DNB 760732132 .
- Biostratigraphy of the Germanic Middle Triassic. Freiberger Forsch.-H., C 280, part I: 1 - 56, part II: 1 - 70, appendices : 12 tables, Leipzig, 1974, DNB 540307688 .
- Mit RE Weems: Upper Triassic conchostracan biostratigraphy of the continental rift basins of Eastern North America: Its importance for correlating Newark Supergroup events with the Germanic Basin and the international geologic time scale. In: New Mexico Museum Natural History and Science, Bulletin. 41, 2007, pp. 137-188.
- With RE Weems: The biostratigraphic importance of conchostracans in the continental Triassic of the northern hemisphere. In: SG Lucas (Ed.): The Triassic Timescale. (= Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 334). The Geological Society of London, 2010, ISBN 978-1-86239-296-0 , pp. 315-417.
- With M. Franz, H. Bachmann: Shipingia weemsi n. Sp., A biostratigraphically important conchostracan species from the uppermost Carnian and lowermost Norian of central Europe. In: Lawrence H. Tanner, Justin A. Spielmann, Spencer G. Lucas (Eds.): The Triassic System: New Developments in Stratigraphy and Paleontology. (= New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science. Bulletin 61). 2013, pp. 325–329, plate 1.
literature
- Gerhard H. Bachmann , Spencer Lucas: Leopold von Buch plaque awarded to Dr. habil. Heinz W. Kozur. In: Journal of the German Society for Geosciences. Volume 164, H. 1, March 2013, pp. 3–7, doi: 10.1127 / 1860-1804 / 2013/0015 (PDF)
- Spencer G. Lucas , Gerhard H. Bachmann: Dedication to Heinz W. Kozur. In: LH Tanner, JA Spielman, SG Lucas: The Triassic System. (= Bulletin New Mexico Museum Natural History and Science. 61). 2013.
- Gerhard H. Bachmann: Heinz W. Kozur (1942–2013). In: Hallesches Jahrbuch für Geoswissenschaften. Volume 36, 2014, p. 141 f. (online) .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kozur, Heinz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kozur, Heinz Walter (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German paleontologist and stratigraph |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hoyerswerda |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th December 2013 |
| Place of death | Budapest |