Joseph Georg Egger

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Joseph Georg Egger (born December 24, 1824 in Kelheim , † March 22, 1913 in Munich ) was a German geologist, micropalaeontologist and doctor.

Life

Egger was the son of a pharmacist and from 1842 studied medicine and natural sciences in Munich, Vienna and Prague. In 1849 he became a resident doctor in Ortenburg and in 1859 in Passau , where he became district doctor in 1871. In 1881 he became government councilor and district medical officer in Bayreuth and in 1886 in Landshut . Most recently he was chief medical officer. As a pensioner he lived in Munich from 1896.

In addition to his work as a doctor, where he stood out among other things through statistical investigations, he dealt with paleontology and especially micropaleontology (foraminifera, ostracods, diatoms). He started with it during his time in Ortenburg in the Miocene of the area. He was in contact with paleontologists such as Carl Wilhelm von Gümbel (for whom he examined foraminifera from samples from the seabed of the ship expeditions of the SMS Gazelle from 1874 to 1876) and Karl Alfred von Zittel .

From 1858 to 1868 he published the annual books of the Natural History Association in Passau, of which he was chairman from 1871 to 1881. He was honorary chairman of the Passau Medical Association.

In 1897 he became a member of the Leopoldina . In 1881 he became an honorary citizen of Passau .

Fonts

  • The foraminifera of the Miocan layers near Ortenburg in Lower Bavaria, New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Paleontology and Geology, 1857, pp. 266–311
  • The ostracodes of the Miocänschichten near Ortenburg, New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Paleontology and Geology 1858, pp. 403–443
  • Foraminifera and ostracodes from the chalk marls of the Eastern Bavarian Alps, treatises of the mathematical-physical class of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Volume 21, 1899, pp. 1-230

literature

References and comments

  1. ↑ Medical Topography and Ethnography of Lower Bavaria, 4th Annual Report Naturhist. Association Passau for 1860, 1861, pp. 19–166, Climatic Parallels, 7th and 8th Annual Report Naturhist. Association Passau 1869, pp. 115-213
  2. ↑ Published in Abh. Bayr. Akad. 1893
  3. ^ Member entry by Joseph Georg Egger at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 14, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Egger, Joseph Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist, micropalaeontologist and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Kelheim
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1913
Place of death Munich