Hermann Aldinger (geologist)

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Hermann Aldinger (born February 1, 1902 in Fellbach ; † December 20, 1993 ) was a German geologist and paleontologist. He was a professor of geology at the University of Stuttgart .

Life

Aldinger received his doctorate in Tübingen in 1928 (contributions to the stratigraphy and educational history of the trochitic limestone in northern Württemberg and Baden), was a research assistant there and was at the Natural History Museum in Stockholm from 1933 to 1935 and in 1933 participant in Lauge Koch's Danish Greenland expedition . From 1936 he was with the Württemberg geological survey and in 1951 he succeeded Manfred Bräuhäuser at the chair for geology and palaeontology in Stuttgart.

He dealt with regional geology (regional mapping Württemberg, Swabian Jura) and as a paleontologist in Stockholm with fossil fish from the Permian of Greenland.

He is also known as the author of numerous angling books.

In 1984 he became an honorary member of the Society for Natural History in Württemberg and in 1992 an honorary member of the Upper Rhine Geological Association .

Fonts

  • Thickness and facies of the White Jura gamma - zeta in the area of ​​Urach (Swabian Alb) . Jber. Mitt. Oberrh. geol. Ver., NF 27, 1938
  • On the stratigraphy of the Weißjura delta in Württemberg .- Jber. Mitt. Oberrh. geol. Ver., NF 31, 1945, 111-152
  • The sponge facies in the White Jura of Swabia . Jber. Mitt. Oberrh. geol. Ver., NF 43, 1961
  • On the petrography of the silica sandstone . Work geol. paleont. Inst. TH. Stuttgart, NF 48, 1965

literature

  • Otto Franz Geyer (editor): Festschrift Hermann Aldinger . Swiss beard 1962
  • Obituary by Otto Franz Geyer. In: German Geolog. Ges., Nachrichten 51, 1994, 12-16
  • Hartmut Seyfried: 180 years of geology at the University of Stuttgart . 2012

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Honorary members of the Society for Natural History in Württemberg
personal data
SURNAME Aldinger, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Fellbach
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1993