Julius of Pia
Julius von Pia (born July 28, 1887 in Purkersdorf , † January 2, 1943 in Vienna ) was an Austrian geologist and paleontologist .
Life
He was the son of a judge (district judge) and studied geology, zoology and palaeontology at the University of Vienna from 1906 (among others with Othenio Abel , Richard Wettstein , Karl Diener , Viktor Uhlig , Berthold Hatschek ) with his doctorate in 1911. Then he was in of the geological-paleontological department of the Natural History Museum in Vienna , from 1928 as curator 1st class. During the First World War he served as an artillery officer and in 1918 as a military geologist in South Tyrol . In 1919 he completed his habilitation in paleontology in Vienna and became an associate professor in 1927 and an honorary professor in 1937 for systematic palaeontology and especially key fossil record .
He was particularly concerned with the stratigraphy of the northern and southern calcareous Alps and calcareous algae as reference fossils (his botanical author abbreviation is " Pia "). He dealt with lime formation and the solubility of limestone . With O. Sickenberg he also wrote a catalog of young tertiary mammals in the Natural History Museum Vienna in 1934 and published monographs on the ammonite genus Oxynoticeras and nautiloids of the Lias .
In 1923 he became a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .
Fonts
- About a Central Asian cephalopod fauna from northeast Asia Minor . In: Annals of the KK Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum, Volume 27, 1913
- Research on the genus Oxynoticeras and some general questions related to it. In: Dep. Geolog. Reichsanstalt Wien, Volume 23, 1914, pp. 1–179
- Investigations on the Liassian Nautiloidea , contributions to the palaeontology and geology of Austria-Hungary and the Orient: Communications of the Paleontological and Geological Institute of the University of Vienna, Volume 27, 1915
- The Siphoneae verticillatae from carbon to chalk , relation of the zoolog.-botan. Ges. In Vienna, Volume 11, 1920
- Plants as rock formers , Borntraeger 1926
- Basic concepts of stratigraphy with extensive application to the European Middle Triassic , Vienna: F. Deuticke 1930
- Carbonic Acid and Lime - An Introduction to Understanding Their Behavior in Inland Waters , The Inland Waters, Volume 13, 1933
- The recent limestones , Journal of Crystallography, Mineralogy and Petrography B, 1933
- Algae as key fossils , lecture 6th Int. Botanical Congress, Amsterdam 1935
- The most important calcareous algae of the Upper Palaeozoic and their geological significance , Compte rendu du deuxième Congrès pour l'avancement des études de Stratigraphie Carbonifère (Herleen 1935), Maastricht 1937, pp. 765–856
- Stratigraphy and tectonics of the Braies Dolomites in South Tyrol , self-published by the author, printed by A. Weger's fb. Hofbuchdruckerei, Bressanone, 1937
- with Maria Ogilvie-Gordon : On the geology of the Sassolungo Group in the South Tyrolean Dolomites , communications from the Alpine Geological Association, Volume 32 for 1939, Vienna 1940
literature
- H. Zapfe: Pia, Julius von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 46.
- Friedrich Trauth: Julius von Pia in memory. In: Annals of the Natural History Museum in Vienna, No. 55 (1947), pp. 19–49 ( PDF; 2.8 MB )
Web links
- Author entry at the IPNI
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SURNAME | Pia, Julius of |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pia, Julius Eduard Ignaz Ernst von |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian geologist and paleontologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 28, 1887 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Purkersdorf |
DATE OF DEATH | January 2, 1943 |
Place of death | Vienna |