Julius of Pia

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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

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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