Hippolyt Haas (geologist)

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Hippolyt Julius Haas (born November 5, 1855 in Stuttgart , † September 6, 1913 in Munich ) was a German paleontologist and geologist .

Life

Hippolyt Haas was the son of the originally Jewish banker David Haas. His mother was born Dreifuss. The son was Protestant, he attended grammar school in Stuttgart and the Moravian school in Lausanne. He studied in Heidelberg and Strasbourg. Haas completed his habilitation in Kiel in 1883, where he became an associate professor in 1888 and a full honorary professor in 1905. He was a secret councilor (1909) and died of a stroke while passing through Munich.

Haas dealt with brachiopods of the Jura from Alsace, western Switzerland, South Tyrol and the Rhaetian Alps, geology (boulder history, Quaternary geology) and paleontology in Schleswig-Holstein, volcanism and he was one of the best known popular science at the turn of the 20th century Writer in Germany on geology and paleontology.

He also wrote a novel (Der Bergmeister von Grund, 2nd edition 1892) and Japanese stories .

Memberships

Honors

Fonts

  • The brachiopods of the Jura formation of Alsace-Lorraine. In: Dep. z. geolog. Special card v. Alsace-Lorraine. II, 2, 1882.
  • Contributions to the brachiopod fauna of South Tyrol and Veneto. 1884.
  • Why does the Eider flow into the North Sea? A contribution to the geography and geology of the Schleswig-Holstein state. Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel 1886.
  • Considerations about the way in which the till sediments got deposited. In: Mitt. Ad Mineralog. Inst. D. Univ. Kiel. I, 2, 1889.
  • The geological nature of Schleswig-Holstein with special consideration of the erratic formations. 1889.
  • Critical contributions to the. Knowledge of the Jura brachiopod fauna of the Swiss Jura Mountains and its neighboring parts of the country. In: Dep. d. Swiss Paleontological Society. 3 parts, Volume 16, 1889, Volume 17, 1890, Volume 20, 1893.
  • About some rare fossils from the Diluvian and the chalk of Schleswig-Holstein. In: series of publications of the naturwiss. Association for Schleswig-Holstein. 7, 1891.
  • Source studies: study of the formation and occurrence of springs and groundwater. Weber, Leipzig 1895.
  • From the storm and urge period of the earth: Sketches from the development history of our planet. 3 volumes. Publishing house of the Association of Book Friends, Berlin 1892–1902.
  • Index fossils. Veit, Leipzig 1887.
  • Guide to geology. 8th edition. Weber, Leipzig 1904.
  • Catechism of petrification (petrefacts, paleontology). Mail order bookshop JJ Weber, Leipzig 1902.
  • Catechism of Geology. 7th edition. Weber, Leipzig 1902.
  • The volcanic forces of the earth and their appearances. Quelle and Meyer, Leipzig 1909.
  • Underground gluten: the nature and essence of the mountains of fire presented in the light of the latest views for the educated of all classes in a way that is easy to understand. Schall, Berlin 1910. (2nd edition 1912)
  • as publisher: blackboards for teaching geology. 1894-1899.
  • with H. Krumm and F. Stoltenberg (eds.): Schleswig-Holstein embracing the sea in words and pictures. Lipsius, Kiel 1896. (Reprint: Weidlich, 1979, ISBN 3-8128-0030-6 )
  • What stones tell us. Old and new from the fields of geology and geography. Berlin 1912.
  • Swabia. Velhagen and Klasing, 1914.
  • Naples, its surroundings and Sicily. Velhagen and Klasing, 1904.
  • German North Sea coast: Frisian islands and Heligoland. Velhagen and Klasing, 1902.

literature

Web links

Commons : Schleswig-Holstein Meerumschlungen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ H. Haas: Der Bergmeister von Grund: a rhyming and inconsistent story from the green Harz forest and from war-torn times. Book Friends Association, Berlin 1897.
  2. ↑ Minutes from 1886.
personal data
SURNAME Haas, Hippolytus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haas, Hippolyt Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1913
Place of death Munich