Hugo Rühle from Lilienstern
Hugo Rühle von Lilienstern (born July 9, 1882 in Bedheim , † July 8, 1946 in Tscherepowez ) was a German doctor and amateur palaeontologist .
Life
Rühle von Lilienstern was a doctor and later a medical officer in Bedheim near Hildburghausen in Thuringia and at the same time a hobby palaeontologist . He discovered numerous tracks from Chirotherium . In the winter of 1932/1933 he succeeded in discovering fossil skeletons of two plateosaurs and of two incomplete Halticosaurus specimens (today called Liliensternus after him ), early predatory dinosaurs from the Triassic (which had previously been found in Pfaffenhofen and Halberstadt) on the Großer Gleichberg 1934 by Friedrich von Huene (Halticosaurus liliensterna).
On August 1, 1934, he opened a paleontological museum of local history in Bedheim Castle , which belonged to him, and where he presented his Halticosaurus. After his widow moved in 1969, the collection came to the Berlin Museum of Natural History at the Humboldt University.
He died in July 1946 in prison in Russia.
Honors
- In 1992 a memorial stone was dedicated to Lilienstern in Bedheim's castle park.
literature
- Thuringian Geological Association, Bedheim Circle of Friends; Community of Steinsburgfreunde, Hennebergisch-Fränkischer Geschichtsverein (ed.): In Memoriam Hugo Rühle von Lilienstern 1882-1946. (with contributions by R. Werneburg, Rühle von Lilienstern, D. Schmidt, M. Lang), Schleusing 1996.
- R. Werneburg: Hugo Rühle von Lilienstern (1882–1946): Researcher of the Triassic South Thuringia. In: Norbert Hauschke, Volker Wilde (ed.): Trias - a completely different world. F. Pfeil Verlag, Munich 1999.
Fonts
- Rühle von Lilienstern, Minna Lang , Friedrich von Huene: The dinosaurs of Thuringia. G. Fischer, Jena 1952.
Web links
- To Lilienstern in Bedheim
- Short biography
- Life dates and biography
- Short biography of H. Rühle von Lilienstern with picture, on p. 79
- B. Mohr et al. (2008): Hugo Rühle von Lilienstern and his palaeobotanical collection: an east – west German story.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rühle von Lilienstern, Hugo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bedheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 8, 1946 |
| Place of death | Cherepovets |