Hertha Sieverts-Doreck
Hertha Sieverts-Doreck (also: Hertha Doreck ; * July 15, 1899 as Hertha Walburga Doris Sieverts in Völklingen ; † March 30, 1991 in Wiesbaden ) was a German paleontologist from Stuttgart . She dealt mainly with echinoderms , for which she gained international renown.
Life
Hertha Sieverts Doreck went to school in Berlin and completed training as a teacher with the conclusion of 1921. It was followed by a study of geology and paleontology in Berlin and Innsbruck and 1927 it was in Berlin with Josef Felix Pompeckj about Cretaceous sea lilies ( crinoids ) of Genus Marsupites PhD. For her dissertation, she also studied recent species in the marine biology research stations in Naples, Trondheim and Kristineberg. Afterwards she was the private assistant of Johannes Wanner in Bonn and worked on his fossil collection from Timor and Crinoids from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic . From 1932 to 1936 she was - probably the only woman - at the Prussian Geological State Institute (from 1936 as an assistant), for which she mapped. In 1936 she married Walter Doreck, who was a businessman in Stuttgart and whom she knew from Innsbruck. She had two daughters with him in 1938 and 1940 and lived in Stuttgart. From then on she was a housewife and private researcher, where she also worked at the Natural History Museum in Stuttgart . However, she continued to publish and established a reputation for herself as a leading German echinoderm paleontologist (especially crinoids). In the early 1950s she was invited by the editor of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Raymond Cecil Moore to the University of Kansas, where she created a system of Mesozoic crinoids that found its way into the standard literature. The Kladistik she faced hostile. She remained active as a paleontologist into old age. She was buried in Stuttgart-Möhringen.
In 1987 she became an honorary member of the Paleontological Society . 70 scientific publications come from her. Some species and genera are named after her.
literature
- Obituary in the annual journal of the Society for Natural History Württemberg, Volume 147, p. 349
- Reimund Haude: Hertha Doreck, July 15, 1899 to March 30, 1991 , Paläontologische Zeitschrift, Volume 66, 1992, pp. 1-7
Individual evidence
- ^ Geologist list of the PGLA
- ↑ For him she should work on the Crinoiden Band. Published: HW Rasmussen, H. Sieverts-Doreck: Classification [of Articulata]. In RC Moore, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Pt. T, Echinodermata 2, Crinoidea 3: T813-T816, Geological Society of America, New York & University of Kansas Press, Lawrence / Kansas 1978
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sieverts-Doreck, Hertha |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Doreck, Hertha; Sieverts, Hertha (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 15, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Völklingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 1991 |
| Place of death | Wiesbaden |