Karl Deninger

Karl Deninger (born March 1878 in Mainz , † December 15, 1917 in Italy ) was a German geologist and paleontologist .

Life

Karl Deninger, son of the Mainz chemist Albert Deninger, nephew of the chemist and leather manufacturer Carl-Franz Deninger and grandson of the leather manufacturer and member of parliament Carl Deninger , studied from 1897 to 1902 in Freiburg, Zurich and Munich. There he was in 1902 with a contribution to the knowledge of the mollusc fauna of the Tertiary formations of Reit im Winkl and Reichenhall Dr. phil. PhD . For several years he worked as an assistant at the Royal Mineralogical-Geological Museum and at the Technical University of Dresden and at the Geological Institute of the University of Freiburg . In 1907 he completed his habilitation in geology and paleontology in Freiburg and was promoted to associate professor there in 1912.

In the years 1902, 1904 and 1905 Deninger traveled with Alexander Tornquist to Sardinia in order to devote himself mainly to the study of the local law and chalk . In 1906/07 he traveled to the Moluccas Islands Buru and Ceram . As an expedition leader, he traveled to the Moluccas again from 1910 to 1912 with the zoologist Erwin Stresemann and a private assistant from Freiburg, the physicist Odo Deodatus I. Tauern , and carried out investigations on Java , Bali and Ceram. This is reported in Stresemann's diary entries published by Jürgen Haffer , among others . Stresemann married Deninger's sister Elisabeth in 1916.

In his teaching activities, Deninger preferred the paleontology of mammals , the prehistory of humans and the geology of the Alps .

With the beginning of the First World War he went into the field as first lieutenant of the Res. In the 3rd Badischer Dragoon Regiment and was seriously wounded on September 29, 1914 in France near Fricourt . In 1915 he was promoted to Rittmeister . Deninger has received several awards for his services on the battlefields in France, in the South Tyrolean Dolomites, in Macedonia, in the Forest Carpathians and in Bukowina . He died on the Italian campaign soon after the Isonzo battles .

Publications

• Contribution to the knowledge of the mollusc fauna of the tertiary formations of Reit im Winkl and Reichenhall . Wolf and Sohnl, Munich 1902 (Munich, Univ., Phil. Diss .; from: Geognost. Jahreshefte , 14, 1901).
• Travel days in Sardinia . Kassel and Leipzig, Fischer 1903.
• The Mesozoic Formations in Sardinia . E. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 1907 (Freiburg i. Br., Phil. Fak., Hab.Schr. From 1907; special print from the New Yearbook for Mineralogy , Beil.-Bd. 23, pp. 435–473).
• On the position of Pithecanthropus erectus Dubois on the basis of the latest results . Borntraeger, Berlin 1908. (Reprint; from: Journal for inductive descent and inheritance theory ; 1,1 / 2, pp. 121–124).
• The western part of Seran; based on the recordings of OD Tauern, E. Stresemann and his own, using a Dutch recording of the Uli area and the route Honiteu-Kairatu recorded by Lieutenant 1st Class WKH Feiulleteau de Bruin . Dr. A. Petermann's communications from Justus Perthes' geographical institute; Vol. 61, 1915, plate 50.
• On the geology of Middle Seran (Ceram) . E. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 1918 ( contributions to the geology of the Dutch East Indies . 3.2, pp. 26-58; Palaeontographica , Suppl. Vol. 4.3).

literature

• JFP: Dr. Karl Deninger † . In: Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie , 1918, p. 167.
• J. Haffer: "We must lead the way on new paths". The work and correspondence of HARTERT, STRESEMANN, ERNST MAYR - international ornithologists. Ornithologist letters of the 20th century . ( Ecology of Birds 19). Ludwigsburg 1997, pp. 858-906. ISSN 0173-0711.

Web links

• obituary

Individual evidence

1. ↑ JFP: Dr. Karl Deninger † . In: Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie , 1918, p. 167.