Karl Walther (geologist)

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Karl Walther , Spanish Carlos Walther (* February 18, 1878 , † April 24, 1948 ), was a German geologist and paleontologist who worked in Uruguay and was a pioneer of geological exploration of the country.

During his studies in 1898 he became a member of the Germania fraternity in Würzburg . Walther received his doctorate in 1902 at the University of Marburg (The Lower Devon between Marburg a. L. and Herborn (Nassau)). He completed his habilitation in Jena and was a private lecturer there in 1906. From 1908 in Uruguay, where he was the first geology professor in Montevideo .

A ray-finned fish from the Tacuarembo Formation of Uruguay (sandstones, end of the Jura) that he discovered is called Walther's fish . It is still the best preserved vertebrate fossil from this formation.

He wrote a list (after a first investigation by R. Marstrander in 1916) of the useful minerals and rocks in Uruguay.

Fonts

  • Twelve tables of the most widespread fossils from the red sandstone and shell limestone in the Jena area. Verlag von Gustav Fischer, Jena 1906 pdf , 2nd edition 1927
  • About the remains of a large ganoid fish from the Obergondwana of Uruguay, Zentralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, B, Volume 9, 1932, pp. 449-461
  • Sobre la existencia de yacimientos minerales y rocas explotables en la Republica O. de Uruguay, Rev. Fac. Agr., 6, 1932, pp. 37-74
  • El basamento cristalino de Montevideo; Relaciones con yacimientos análogos del Uruguay y de loe países vecinos. Montevideo, Impr. Nacional, 1948

literature

  • M. Soto: El "Pez de Walther" (Actinopterygii: Ginglymodi) a 80 anos de su descripcion, Revista Sociedad Uruguaya de Geologia, No. 18, 2013, pdf
  • Jorge Bossi: Recursos Minerales de Uruguay, Nuestra tierra 10, 1969, pdf (Photo by Walther p. 5)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Directory of the old men of the German fraternity. Überlingen am Bodensee 1920, p. 266.
  2. ↑ Published in the New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geology and Palaeontology, Supplement Volume 17, 1903 Archives
personal data
SURNAME Walther, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walther, Carlos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1878
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1948