Hermann Weyland

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Hermann Gerhard Weyland (born March 28, 1888 in St. Ingbert , † January 20, 1974 in Wuppertal ) was a German paleobotanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Weyland ".

Life

Hermann Weyland was Professor of Geology and Paleontology at the University of Cologne . He was also a senior employee (department head) at Bayer AG . He lived in Wuppertal-Elberfeld and was chairman of the Wuppertal Natural Science Association . He became known with the finds and scientific work on the Wuppertal Devon flora . Along with Richard crimps it is describer of elberfeldense Asteroxylon , one after the site in Wuppertal- Elberfeld named Devonian Bärlapppflanze . Between 1937 and 1948 he wrote a seven-volume standard work on the plant fossils from the Rott ( Hennef ) site. Holdings of Rott fossils can be found in Bonn ( Goldfuß Museum ), Siegburg ( Siegburg City Museum ), Berlin, London and Los Angeles. Together with the paleobotanist and close friend Richard Kräusel , he deciphered the blueprints of many psilophytes (ancient ferns) in the 1920s . There was also a lively exchange with Gerhard Roselt , Professor of Paleobotany and Coal Geology at the Bergakademie Freiberg, as well as with Walther Gothan . With this he published the "Textbook of Paleobotany", which was published in several editions.

Honors

In 1957 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Fonts

  • The flora of the German Lower Devonian , Berlin 1930, together with Richard Kräusel
  • Tertiary and quaternary plant remains from the volcanic tuff of the Eifel , Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main 1942 (number 463), together with Richard Kräusel
  • The development of the oldest plant world , Geologische Rundschau, Volume 35, pp. 99-106, September 1948
  • Contributions to the knowledge of the Rhenish tertiary flora (1934)
  • Paths and goals of paleobotany , in: Naturwissenschaften (Journal), Springer Berlin / Heidelberg January 1950, (issue 37, number 24)
  • The spores and pollen of the Aachen chalk and their significance for the characterization of the Middle Senone , in: Palaeontographica, Abt. B 95, pp. 6-29, 1953, together with W. Krieger
  • About structure-providing leaves and plant microfossils from the sub-senone clays of the Quedlinburg area , in: Palaeontographica Abt. B 95, pp. 30–52, 1953, together with G. Greifeld
  • Goethe's original plant in the light of modern tribal history . A consideration of the change in the concept of development, in: SudArch 38, 1954, p. 219
  • with Walter Gothan: Textbook of Paleobotany , Akademie-Verlag , Berlin 1954
  • Investigations on the spore and pollen flora of some Yugoslav and Greek brown coals , in: Palaeontographica Abt. B 105, pp. 75-99, 1958 together with HD Pflug, N. Pantic
  • Three new plants from the Devonian , in: Palaeontographica, Abt. B 107, pp. 65-82, 1960 together with Richard Kräusel
  • Plant remains from the “Herman” lignite mine near Heerlen, Hollandisch Limburg , in: Palaeontographica Abt. B 109, pp. 93–97, 1961 together with K. Takahashi,
  • Riddle around Asteroxylon Elberfeldense , in: Palaeontographica Abt. B 126, pp. 138-144, 1969 together with Werner Berendt, Wolf-Dieter Vollmann

literature

  • Karl Kilpper: Hermann Weyland 80 years , in: Palaeontographica Abt. B Vol. 123 1968. S. 1-4, Schweizerbart Stuttgart

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member entry by Hermann Weyland at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on August 20, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Weyland, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weyland, Hermann Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleobotanist
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Ingbert
DATE OF DEATH 20th January 1974
Place of death Wuppertal