Ilse Seibold

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Ilse Seibold , née Usbeck, (born May 8, 1925 in Breslau ) is a German micropalaeontologist and geological science historian.

Seibold received his doctorate in micropalaeontology in 1951 in Tübingen (contributions to the knowledge of microfauna and stratigraphy in the lower Lias alpha of Swabia) and was married to the marine geologist Eugen Seibold since 1952 . From 1988 to 2004 she headed the geological archive in Freiburg.

She wrote a book on geology and the arts and a biography of Johannes Walther .

In 2000 she became an honorary member of the Geological Association . In 2008 she received the Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal from the DGG.

Together with her husband Eugen Seibold, she founded the Georg Uschmann Prize for the History of Science and the Eugen and Ilse Seibold Prize for German-Japanese understanding.

Fonts

  • with Eugen Seibold: Foraminifera of the bank and sponge facies in the lower Malm of southern Germany. In: New Yearbook for Geology and Paleontology. Abhandlungen, Volume 109, 1960, pp. 309-438
  • The geologists and the arts. Small Senckenberg series, Schweitzerbart 2001
  • The way to biogeology. Johannes Walther (1860-1937). A researcher's life in the changing German university. Springer 1992

References and comments

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