Karl Metz (geologist)

Karl Metz (born April 12, 1910 in Graz ; † June 16, 1990 ) was an Austrian geologist and professor of geology and paleontology at the University of Graz .

Metz studied in Graz, where he studied geology and palaeontology as well as teaching . In 1933 he received his doctorate under Franz Heritsch and in 1935 assistant at the Montan University of Leoben under Wilhelm Petrascheck , with whom he completed his habilitation in 1941, evaluating the results of the expedition to the Cilician Taurus (he was also often in Turkey later), at which he 1938 participated under Hans Spreitzer . During the Second World War he was a military geologist in France and Russia and at the Todt Organization , including in the coal mining area of ​​Upper Silesia and Macedonia, in Northern Norway and Slovakia. In 1946 he became associate professor and in 1956 full professor in Graz (successor to Franz Heritsch).

He dealt with alpine tectonics (especially the Styrian Grauwackenzone ), deposit theory and applied geology.

He was visiting professor in Stockholm, Uppsala, Helsinki, Berlin, Bonn, Göttingen, Mainz, Tehran, Kuwait, Florida, Louisiana and North Carolina. He received the Merit Medal of the University of Helsinki, the Great Gold Medal of Honor of the State of Styria , was a corresponding member of the Federal Geological Institute and a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

• Textbook for tectonic geology. Ferdinand Enke 1983

Geological maps 1: 50,000 of Kalwang , Oberzeiring and Donnersbach and a geological overview map of Styria 1: 300,000 come from him.

literature

• Elmer Walter: Laudation - Karl Metz on his 80th birthday. Natural science Verein Steiermark, Volume 120, 1990, pp. 11-15