Helmut Holder

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Helmut Hölder (born January 18, 1915 in Stuttgart ; † August 26, 2014 there ) was a German geologist and paleontologist .

Helmut Hölder was already a fossil collector as a teenager with contact to the Stuttgart Natural History Museum ( Fritz Berckhemer , Reinhold Seemann ) and studied geology and palaeontology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen (as well as in Aachen and Königsberg) from 1935 , where he received his doctorate in 1939 (“Geological investigations in the area of ​​Lauchheim (Ostalb) ”). During the Second World War he was an officer and was wounded. From 1945 he was assistant and from 1950 conservator at the Geological-Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Tübingen . He was also an adjunct university professor there. In 1963 he became professor for paleontology at the University of Münster . In 1980 he retired . He moved back to Stuttgart, where he volunteered in the Jura collection at the Natural History Museum .

Hölder wrote popular science books on paleontology and a history of geology and palaeontology that stood out through extensive literary comments .

In 1987 he became an honorary member of the Palaeontological Society and in 1995 of the Society for Natural History in Württemberg . He was editor of the paleontological journal for a long time.

Bernhard Ziegler is one of his doctoral students .

Fonts

  • Brief history of geology and paleontology. A reading book , Springer Verlag 1989
  • Geology and palaeontology in texts and their history , K. Alber, Freiburg 1960
  • with Wolf von Engelhardt : Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology at the University of Tübingen from the beginning to the present , JCB Mohr, Tübingen 1977
  • Natural history of life. A paleontological search for traces . Springer Verlag 1996 (Understandable Science Series)
  • Natural history of life from its beginnings to man , Springer Verlag 1968
  • Palaeontological meditations , Lit Verlag 2011
  • with Hans Querner, Albert Egelhaaf, Jürgen Jacobs, Gerhard Heberer : From the origin of the species. New insights and perspectives in the theory of descent , rororo paperback, 1969
  • with Horst Steinhorst: Lebendige Urwelt , Spectrum 1964
  • Borderline questions of scientific research. A contribution to the transgression of empirical methodology, based on Goethe's natural research and some examples from the present , (Tübingen natural science treatises, volume 16), Enke Verlag 1941
  • Editor with others: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . Writings on geology and paleontology. Cotta 1960
  • with Fritz Berckhemer : Ammonites from the Upper White Jura of southern Germany , Geological Yearbook (Office for Soil Research, Hanover), Supplement, Volume 35, 1959
  • Jura , Enke, Stuttgart 1964

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hölder's estate at the Freiburg im Breisgau University Library  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ub.uni-freiburg.de  
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Helmut Hölder passed away. ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2014 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. Press release of the Palaeontological Society of October 6, 2014 (accessed October 11, 2014).  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.palges.de
  3. ↑ He died in his old age residence in Stuttgart-Sillenbuch. He was born in Stuttgart-Degerloch.
  4. ↑ Kürschner's Scholars Calendar from 1961.
  5. ^ Honorary members of the Society for Natural History in Württemberg
personal data
SURNAME Holder, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 2014
Place of death Stuttgart