Hermann Andert

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Hermann Andert (born May 10, 1879 in Ebersbach / Sa. , † December 19, 1945 there ) was an Upper Lusatian palaeontologist , geologist and bank director.

Life

He attended elementary school and later the weaving school in Rumburg . Then he worked as a weaver. From 1905 he took on a job at the Sparkasse in Ebersbach and was the Sparkasse director since 1923. In 1940 he retired.

Since 1904 Hermann Andert was the director of the "Humboldtverein" in Ebersbach, which in 1912 built the Humboldtbaude in Ebersbach with the local museum on the Schlechteberg . Andert not only learned numerous foreign languages, he also wrote dialect poems and began researching dialect in Upper Lusatia . His two sons Werner and Herbert continued the latter work . Hermann Andert also acquired great importance in the field of geology and paleontologist. He published special paleontological papers on extinct mussel species.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Inoceramen of the Kreibitz-Zittauer Sandstone Mountains - (Humboldt Association) Ebersbach (Saxony). In: Festschrift of the Humboldtverein to celebrate its 50th anniversary on October 22, 1911 (1911): 33–64. - digitized .
  • The chalk deposits between the Elbe and Jeschken Part 1: The Elbe Sandstone Mountains east of the Elbe - Treatises of the Prussian Geological Institute, New Series (Akademie-Verlag) Berlin 112: 1–146. (1928) - digitized
  • The chalk deposits between the Elbe and Jeschken Part 2: The North Bohemian chalk between the Elbe Sandstone Mountains and Jeschken and the Zittau Sandstone Mountains - Treatises of the Prussian Geological State Institute, New Series (Akademie-Verlag) Berlin (1929) 117: 1–227. - digitized
  • The facies in the Sudetic Chalk with special consideration of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains - Journal of the German Geological Society (Wilhelm Hertz) Berlin (1934) 86: 617–637.
  • The chalk deposits between the Elbe and Jeschken Part 3: The fauna of the uppermost chalk in Saxony, Bohemia and Silesia - Treatises of the Prussian Geological Institute, New Series (Akademie-Verlag) Berlin (1934) 159: 1-477. - digitized

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SURNAME Andert, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Upper Lusatian palaeontologist, geologist and bank director
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Ebersbach / Sa.
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1945
Place of death Ebersbach / Sa.