Karl Gripp

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Karl Gripp (1976)

Karl Christian Johannes Gripp (born April 21, 1891 in Hamburg , † February 26, 1985 in Lübeck ) was a German geologist .

Gripp studied from 1910 at the University of Göttingen , in Grenoble and at the University of Kiel , where he received his doctorate in 1914 under Ewald Wüst (1875-1934) ( About the marine Altmiozän in the North Sea basin ). In 1920 he received his habilitation at the University of Hamburg ( Does the salt rise to Lüneburg, Langenfelde and Segeberg episodically or continuously? ). In 1927 he became an associate professor for geology in Hamburg, but in 1934 - as he himself declared - he retired for political reasons. In 1940 he became an adjunct professor in Kiel (for diluvial prehistory ), where he was head of the Geological Institute in 1943 after Kurt Fiege was called up to represent him. In 1945 he became a full professor in Kiel, where he was director of the University's Geological Institute until his retirement in 1958. Even after his retirement he remained scientifically active.

Among other things, he researched the Tertiary and Pleistocene predecessors of today's North Sea and the Ice Ages in northern Germany, while also doing comparative studies in today's Arctic. In 1925 and 1927 he undertook expeditions to Spitzbergen and 1930 to Greenland . In 1913 he was a pioneer in researching cave formation in gypsum karst using the example of the Kalkberg of Bad Segeberg .

In the 1950s he appeared publicly as an opponent of Jürgen Spanuth's Atlantis theory .

Gripp was a member of the working group of North German geologists. In Kiel he was the founder of the geological journal Meyniana. In 1968 he received the Albrecht Penck Medal .

Fonts

  • Geological history of Schleswig-Holstein , Neumünster, Wachholtz Verlag 1964
  • About the Gipsberg in Segeberg and the cave present in it - 6th supplement, Jahrb. Hamb. Knowledge Rst XXX for 1912, 1913, pp. 35-51
  • News about the formation of the cave in Gipsberg zu Segeberg , Die Heimat 41, 1931, pp. 234–237
  • News about the Gipsberg and the Segeberg cave , Heimatk. Yearbook for the Segeberg district, Kiel, 1963, pp. 97–107
  • with Ferdinand Dewers , Fritz Overbeck The Cenozoic in Lower Saxony (Tertiary, Diluvium, Alluvium and Moore) , Geology and Deposits of Lower Saxony Volume 3, series of publications by Wirtschaftswiss. Ges. For studying Lower Saxony, Stalling Verlag, Oldenburg 1941, 2nd edition Bremen-Horn 1950
  • Origin and future development of the German Bight , from the archive of the Deutsche Seewarte and Marine Observatory, Hamburg, Volume 63, Issue 2, 1944, pp. 1-45
  • The German North Sea and its two Ice Age predecessors , Abh. Naturwiss. Verein Bremen, Volume 33, 1952, pp. 5-18
  • Geology of Hamburg and its immediate and wider surroundings , Society of Friends of the Patriotic Education, Hamburg 1933 (154 pages)
  • Contributions to the geology of Macedonia , Hamburg University, treatises from the field of foreign studies , Volume 7, Series C, Naturwiss., Volume 3, 1922
  • About the outermost limit of the last glaciation in northwest Germany , Mitteilungen Geographische Gesellschaft Hamburg, Volume 36, 1924, pp. 159–245
  • Origin of the diluvial ground moraine landscapes and the question of their recent equivalents in the Arctic , Berlin-Zehlendorf 1942
  • Eider and Elbe. A geological comparison , Neumünster, Wachholtz Verlag 1941 (37 pages)
  • 100 years of studies on what happened on the edge of the northern European inland ice , ice age and present, Volume 26, 1975, pp. 31–73, addendum to Volume 28, p. 218
  • On the Formation of the Fjords , Ice Age and the Present, Volume 22, 1972, p. 131
  • Sub-moraine-ground moraine-ground moraine landscape , Ice Age and Present, Volume 25, 1974, pp. 5-9
  • Glacial morphology and geological mapping. At the same time an interpretation of the surface forms of East Holstein , magazine German Geolog. Ges., Vol. 99, 1949, pp. 190-205

literature

  • Günther von der Brelie, Obituary in Ice Age and Present, Volume 35, 1985, p. 215
  • Werner Prange, Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck, Volume 9, 1991, p. 134
  • Köster, Prange, Obituary in Meyniana, Volume 37, 1985, pp. 1-6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to Karl Gripp's finding aid, pdf
  2. ↑ Horst Küppers, History of Mineralogy in Kiel, pdf ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ifg.uni-kiel.de
  3. ^ Gripp Glaciological and geological results of the Hamburg Spitsbergen Expedition 1927 , Abh. Naturwiss. Verein Hamburg, Volume 22, 1929, pp. 159–245. Gripp, E. Todtmann The terminal moraine of the Green Bay glacier in Spitzbergen, a study on the understanding of north German diluvial structures , Mitt. Geogr. Ges. Hamburg, Volume 37, 1926, pp. 45-75
  4. ↑ Gripp The different types of terminal moraines in front of the Greenland Ice Sheet , Journal of the German Geological Society, Volume 84, 1932, p. 654, Gripp Eisrandstudien based on Sermeq, SW Greenland , Meddelelser om Greenland, Volume 195, No. 8, Copenhagen 1975
personal data
SURNAME Gripp, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gripp, Karl Christian Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1985
Place of death Lübeck