Karl Tripp

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Karl Georg Wilhelm Tripp (born January 15, 1900 in Schmalkalden , † January 4, 1973 in Marburg ) was a German paleontologist .

Life

The son of a building contractor began in the winter of 1918-19 at the University of Marburg with the study of chemistry, then spent three semesters at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and returned afterwards again to Marburg, where he in 1925 with Karl Ziegler with doctorate of his work on the problem of the changing valence stress on organic atom groups . After brief industrial activity, he began studying biology in Marburg and in 1927 wrote a thesis on the regenerative capacity of hydrates , which was awarded a prize by the Faculty of Philosophy. In the same year he passed his exams as a sports teacher.

From April 1, 1927, Tripp worked as an assistant to Rudolf Wedekind in the investigation of the northern European, Ordovician and Silurian coral faunas, especially that of Gotland. In 1932 he received his habilitation. In 1939 he was appointed lecturer at the University of Marburg as an adjunct professor of geology and palaeontology. In 1965 he retired.

Fonts

• with Rudolf Wedekind : Gotland's coral reefs: A contribution to solving the problem of the formation of barrier reefs. In: Zentralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie. Department B, Vol. 1 (1930), H. 8, pp. 295-304.
• The blueprints of the stromal pores. 1932.
• The family tree of the Belemnites of the Lias Schwabens. 1937.
• Development mechanics and tribal history: a comparison of dynamic findings in the design of the individual (Pelmatohydra), the colony (Favosites) and the family tree (Belemnites). 1938.

literature

• Rudolf Schmitz: The natural sciences at the Philipps University of Marburg 1527-1977. Elwer, Marburg 1978, p. 432.