Josef Brunner (paleontologist)

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Josef Brunner (born July 28, 1913 in Vienna , † March 19, 1943 in the Soviet Union) was an Austrian paleontologist .

Brunner studied at the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in 1938 and was an assistant at the Paleontological and Paleobiological Institute from 1938 to 1943. He fell on March 19, 1943 in World War II .

As a paleontologist, Brunner dealt with mammals and traces of life. He is the first to describe the bear species Ursavus ehrenbergi (named after his teacher Kurt Ehrenberg ), which is only known in fossil form from the Greek island of Euboea .

Publications

  • A bear remnant from the Lower Pliocene of Euboea. In: Anzeiger der Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematical and natural science class, born 1941, No. 3, 1941, pp. 1–4.
  • A new species of bear from the late Tertiary fauna of Greece. In: Kosmos Vol. 39, H. 2, 1942, p. 42.
  • Observations on the traces of life of hyenas on the bones of ungulates from the Lower Pliocene of Pikermi. In: Palaeobiologica Volume 8, 1944, pp. 120-126.

literature

  • Helmuth Zapfe : Index Palaeontologicorum Austriae (= Catalogus fossilium Austriae issue 15). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1971, p. 21 ( PDF; 328 kB ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Due to his early death, Brunner was only able to make a brief announcement of the find, detailed first description by Erich Thenius : Ursavus ehrenbergi from the Pont of Euboea (Greece) . In: Meeting reports of the Academy of Sciences 156, 1947, pp. 225–249 ( PDF ).
personal data
SURNAME Brunner, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1943
Place of death Soviet Union