Josef Felix Pompeckj

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Josef Felix Pompeckj.

Josef Felix Pompeckj (born May 10, 1867 in Groß Köllen , Warmia , † July 8, 1930 in Berlin ) was a German paleontologist and geologist .

Life

Pompeckj made his Abitur at the Realgymnasium in Elbing and studied geology and palaeontology at the University of Königsberg from 1885 , where he became a member of the Alemannia fraternity in 1885 . He received his doctorate there in 1890 under Wilhelm von Branca ( The Trilobite Fauna of the East and West Prussian Diluvial Attachments ). He then followed Branca as an assistant at the University of Tübingen . In 1894 he moved to the State Palaeontological Collection in Munich, where he completed his habilitation on ammonites with Karl von Zittel in the same year . He was then a private lecturer at the university, from 1897 curator and 1903 associate professor . In 1896 he traveled to Romania and the Russian part of Poland on behalf of the Romanian government. In 1904 he was briefly at the Geological Reichsanstalt in Vienna and in the same year became a professor at the Hohenheim Agricultural University . In 1907 he became an associate professor, then a full professor in Göttingen and in 1913 at the University of Tübingen. In 1917 he became a full professor of geology and paleontology and director of the Geological-Paleontological Institute and Museum of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität (today Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ), as successor to Wilhelm von Branca. At the same time he was named a secret mountain ridge. Pompeckj stayed in Berlin until his death. During the Weimar Republic, he supported the German National People's Party (DNVP) in public calls . In 1923/24 he was dean and in 1925/26 rector of the university. Together with the physicist Wilhelm Westphal , he campaigned for scientific exchange with the Soviet Union in the 1920s.

science

Pompeckj was very successful as a university professor in Berlin and founded his own school of paleontologists. The Pompeckjsche Schwelle is named after him, with which he explained the difference in fauna of the trilobites in the lower and middle Cambrian between Bohemia on the one hand and the Baltic States and Poland on the other (1896). The term was coined by Wilhelm Haack in 1926. It ran from the Northern Sudetes to the Lower Elbe and Schleswig-Holstein. In 1930, Alfred Bentz also applied the term to a hypothetical threshold in the Mesozoic Era , which, however, did not exist during much of the Mesozoic Era. That is why the name was severely restricted by Ehrhard Voigt as early as 1963 . The term Pompeckjsche Scholle was coined in the tectonics of Lower Saxony in the Mesozoic era.

In August 1912 he was one of the 34 founding members of the Paleontological Society and became the first vice-president together with Fritz Frech . He was a member of the Göttingen Society of Sciences (1911), the Prussian Academy of Sciences (1920) and the Leopoldina (1925). He was an external member of the Paleontological Society of America and the Geological Society of London . From 1920 to 1930 he was a board member of the German Geological Society .

Since 1903 he was editor of Palaeontographica , of Geological and Palaeontological Treatises (with Friedrich von Huene ), of Lethaea geognostica and the New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology as well as several volumes of the Fossilium Catalogus , Leiden, Backhuys.

Fonts

  • About Aucellen and Aucellen-like forms . New yearbook for mineralogy, geology and paleontology. 1881
  • About ammonoids with an abnormal living chamber . Annual books of the Association for Patriotic Natural History, Stuttgart, 1884
  • Contributions to a revision of the ammonites of the Swabian Jura . Swiss beard, Stuttgart 1893-1896 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.46837
  • The fauna of the Cambrian of Tejřovic and Skrej in Bohemia . Yearbook of the Geological Reichsanstalt, 1896
  • About Calymene Brongniart . New Yearbook of Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology, 1898
  • Marines Mesozoic from King Charles Land . Stockholm, Ofvers. K. Vetensk Akad. Forh., Vol. 56, 1899, pp. 449-464.
  • Jurassic fossils from Alaska . Negotiations of the Imperial Russian Mineralogical Society in St. Petersburg. Second series. Volume XXXVIII. Number 1. 239-282. 1900 PDF ( Memento from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  • The Jura deposits between Regensburg and Regenstauf. A contribution to the knowledge of the eastern border of the Franconian Jura . Geognostische Jahreshefte, Volume 14, 1901, pp. 139–220
  • About Aucellen and Aucellen-like forms . New year b. F. Min., Geol. And Paleontology, Volume 14
  • From the Tremadoc of the Montagne Noire (southern France) . New Yearbook of Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology, 1902
  • The zoogeographical relationships between the Jurassic seas of northwest and southern Germany . J.-Ber. lower. geol. Ver., Hanover, 1908
  • About a find of mosasaur remains in the Upper Senon of Haldem . J.-Ber. lower. geolog. Ver., 1910, pp. 122-150
  • On the racial persistence of the ammonites . Annual report of the Lower Saxony Geological Association, 1910
  • Amphineura paleontology . Concise dictionary of natural sciences, 1912
  • The sea of ​​copper slate . Reprint from the Branca Festschrift. (Leipzig, Borntraeger brothers, 1914).
  • The importance of the Swabian Jura for geological history . Stuttgart, 1914
  • Copper shale and copper shale sea . Journal of the German Society for Geosciences, Volume 72. p. 329-339
  • The skeleton of the ears of Zeuglodon . Senckenbergiana, 1922
  • Ammoniten des Rhät , New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology, 1895, pp. 1–46
  • A new testimony to ancient life . Paleontological Journal 9: 287-313. 1927
  • with Charles Schuchert , CM LeVene: Brachiopoda: (generum et genotyporum index et bibliographia) . 1929 W. Junk, Berlin
  • Adaptation and persistence in the light of geological tradition (Rector's speech 1924), Berlin 1925, reprinted in: Contributions to the history of the Humboldt University Berlin, No. 30, 1992, p. 32
  • Is the earth aging? , Berlin, Ebering 1926
  • The significance of the Swabian Jura for geological history (inaugural speech 1913), Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 1914

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Josef Felix Pompeckj  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 392.
  2. ↑ Michael Grüttner u. a., The Berlin University between the World Wars 1918-1945, Berlin 2012 (History of the University of Unter den Linden, Vol. 2), p. 146.
  3. ↑ Hans Murawski Geological Dictionary , dtv, 1972.
  4. ↑ Geodictionary Pompeckjsche threshold .
  5. ^ Palaeontological Journal 1, Issue 1, March 1914
  6. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 192.
  7. ↑ Member entry of Joseph Pompeckj at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 23, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Pompeckj, Josef Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Groß Köllen , Warmia
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1930
Place of death Berlin