Hermann Engelhardt (paleontologist)
Hermann Engelhardt (born March 10, 1839 in Oberhohndorf ; † January 24, 1918 in Dresden ) was a German teacher and paleobotanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Engelh. "
Hermann Engelhardt came from a family of miners and was the son of a mine surveyor and shift foreman in mining. He initially worked as a private tutor in Nossen and on the Crossen manor and trained in geology and paleontology under the influence of Friedrich Albert Fallou . In 1861 he became a teacher of natural sciences at the seminar in Dresden-Friedrichstadt and from 1869 he was a senior teacher at the Realschule in Dresden-Neustadt, where he stayed until his retirement and helped develop it into the Reform Realgymnasium ( Dreikönigschule ).
From around 1870 he dealt with palaeobotany and, at the suggestion of Hanns Bruno Geinitz, took part in a prize assignment of the Princely Jablonowskische Gesellschaft in Leipzig in 1870 about the tertiary flora of the Saxon lignite that he won. This was followed by work on the flora of the tertiary in Bohemia, Styria , Bosnia-Herzegovina , Egypt , Sardinia , Asia Minor , Chile and West Germany (for example Himmelsberg near Fulda , Messel mine near Darmstadt, Maintal ). He drew the illustrations for his publications himself.
In 1881 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . From 1865 he was a member of the Isis Natural Science Society in Dresden, of which he was chairman from 1884 to 1897.
literature
- Wilhelm Haan : Hermann Engelhardt . In: Saxon Writer's Lexicon . Robert Schaefer's Verlag, Leipzig 1875, p. 62.
- Johannes Viktor Deichmüller : Hermann Engelhardt . In: Leopoldina 55, 1919, pp. 64–68 (Obituary, digital . 70–71, list of publications, digital ).
- Johannes Viktor Deichmüller: Hermann Engelhardt . In: Meeting reports and treatises of the scientific society Isis Dresden 1918, pp. V – X (obituary with portrait photo, digital ).
- Rudolph Zaunick : Engelhardt, Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 512 f. ( Digitized version ).
Remarks
- ^ Flora of the lignite formation in the Kingdom of Saxony . Leipzig 1870 ( digital ).
- ↑ The tertiary flora of Berand in the Bohemian Central Mountains. A new contribution to the knowledge of the fossil plants of Bohemia , Prague 1898, Biodiversity Library .
- ↑ About New Tertiary Plants in South America . In: Treatises of the Senckenbergische Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 1902, archive.org .
- ↑ About tertiary plants from Himmelsberg near Fulda . In: Treatises of the Senckenbergische Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 1902, archive.org
- ^ The old tertiary flora of Messel near Darmstadt , Darmstadt 1922, Biodiversity Library .
- ↑ with Georg Friedrich Kinkelin : I. Oberpliocäne flora and fauna of the Untermaintal, especially of the Frankfurt clarification basin. II. Unterdiluviale Flora von Hainstadt a. M. . In: Treatises of the Senckenbergische Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 1908, Biodiversity Library .
- ^ Member entry by Hermann Engelhardt at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 30, 2015.
Web links
- Writings by Hermann Engelhardt in the German Digital Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Engelhardt, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher and paleobotanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1839 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberhohndorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 24, 1918 |
| Place of death | Dresden |