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Helmut Walter Flügel (born August 18, 1924 in Fürstenfeld ; † May 6, 2017 ) was an Austrian geologist and paleontologist .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1942, Flügel studied geology with Franz Heritsch at the University of Graz . After military service on the Eastern Front and in Italy and being an American prisoner of war until 1946, he first studied civil engineering in Graz, but soon switched back to geology. In 1949 he received his doctorate under Karl Metz (The tectonics of the Plesch-Mühlbacherzug. An example of the dissolution of the tectonics of the Paleozoic west of the Mur). He then worked as an assistant at Metz, where he completed his habilitation in geology in 1953 and again in paleontology in 1954. In 1958 he became an associate professor and in 1968 a full professor at the Karl Franzens University Graz (for paleontology and historical geology). In 1994 he retired. He was on study visits to Turkey and Iran (1966).

Flügel was an honorary member of the Austrian Geological Society (and its chairman in 1977) and received its Eduard Sueß commemorative coin in 1994 . In 1972 he became a corresponding member and in 1984 a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . In 1976/77 he was chairman of the Natural Science Association of Styria. He is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences . In 1997 he became an honorary member of the Paleontological Society . Wing also dealt with the history of geology.

He was chairman of the commission for the paleontological and stratigraphic research of Austria and was active in the establishment of corresponding databases, for example the online database Austrofossil . He also worked on the Catalogus Fossilium Austriae of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Since 1955 he was born with the geologist Maria Flügel. Kropfitsch married, with whom he had two daughters. He was the brother of Erik Flügel .

Fonts

  • Maria von Born (1766-1830). Biography of an emancipated Austrian in a transition period . Pro Business, Berlin 2013
  • The adventurous life of Benedikt Hermann (1755–1815). From the Styrian farmer's son to chevalier and manager of the Russian mines , Böhlau 2006
  • Ed. Letters from Austrian mineralogists between Enlightenment and Restoration , Scripta geo-historica, Volume 1, Leykam 2009
  • Geology and paleontology at the University of Graz 1761–1976 , Academic Printing and Publishing Company 1977
  • The abyss of time. The development of geohistory 1670–1830 , Verlag für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaft und Technik (GNT Verlag) 2004
  • The geology of the Grazer Bergland , Graz 1961
  • The Styrian Randgebirge , Borntraeger, Geological Guide Collection 1963
  • with Peter Faupl (Ed.) Geodynamics of the Eastern Alps , Deuticke, Vienna, Geologische Bundesanstalt 1987
  • with Franz Neubauer: Explanation of the geological map of Styria 1: 200,000 , Vienna 1984
  • Revised with Haymo Heritsch by Arthur Winkler-Hermaden The Styrian Tertiary Basin , Borntraeger, Geological Guide Collection, 1968

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ em. o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Helmut W. Flügel (1924-2017). Federal Geological Institute, May 10, 2017, accessed on May 15, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Austrofossil website ( Memento of the original dated August 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oeaw.ac.at
  3. ↑ Kropfitsch Maria married wing (PDF; 379 kB) accessed on January 22, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Wing, Helmut W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wing, Helmut Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Fürstenfeld , Styria , Austria
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 2017