Karoline Adametz

Karoline Adametz , called Lotte, (* July 25, 1879 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † June 3, 1966 there ) was an Austrian self-taught palaeontologist and prehistorian .

Career and achievements

Karoline Adametz, daughter of the master builder Heinrich Adametz, attended the commercial school and the St. Ursula art school in Vienna. At the beginning of 1898, when she was nineteen, Karoline Adametz became secretary of the geological and palaeontological department of the Natural History Museum in Vienna. In this position she worked for Ernst Kittl , Franz Xaver Schaffer and Friedrich Trauth until her retirement in 1945 . She attended Ernst Kittl's lectures in paleontology at the Vienna University of Technology for four semesters and took part in his excursions. She autodidactically acquired knowledge of geology and prehistory .

She carried out the first excavations with Kittl in the Strechen area of ​​the Rottenmanner Tauern . In this and later projects of the Austrian Geological Society, she played a key role in the publications. She collaborated scientifically with Julius von Pia and the prehistorian Josef Bayer , especially with regard to comprehensive textbooks. Many illustrations of Bayer's The Man in the Ice Age (1927) and almost all of the illustrations in the second volume of Schaffer's textbook on geology (1st – 3rd edition 1924) by Karoline Adametz. From 1919 she assisted Bayer's excavations in Krems an der Donau. She presented her own scientific work in the field of prehistory and early history from 1925 to 1961. Your representation of the find conditions of the Venus von Willendorf (found 1908 in layer 9 of the Willendorf II excavation) is considered incorrect. Until 1938 Adametz also participated in the excavations together with Srečko Brodar ( University of Ljubljana ), who is considered a pioneer of palaeolithic research in Slovenia, in the Potočka zijalka cave in the Slovenian Karawanken .

From 1922 she was a member of the Austrian Geological Society , the Anthropological Society in Vienna and the Paleontological Society .

Fonts

• A mammoth hunter station . In: Die Umschau 29, 1925
• Stone Age cannibals . In: Die Umschau 32, 1928
• Additions to the previous report by Kyrle and a summary of the ancient and Upper Palaeolithic high stations in Austria based on the excavations by Josef Bayer . In: XVIth International Geological Congress , Washington 1933
• A multi-edged battle ax from the flood plain of the Traisen estuary . In: Mitteilungen der Anthropologische Gesellschaft Wien 67, 1937, pp. 30–31.
• The mammoth hunter station in Willendorf in the Wachau . In: Waldviertler Heimat, part 4, 1941
• Commemorative sheet for the 60th birthday of Dr. Josef Bayer. sn, Vienna 1942.
• with Julius Pia: A mysterious mercury deposit near Haugsdorf in the Weinviertel, Lower Danube . In: Anzeiger der Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematical and Natural Science Class 79, 1942, pp. 33–36.
• About an enigmatic mercury deposit near Haugsdorf in Weinviertel, N. Ö. In: Der Aufschluss 7, 1956
• To the universal history of mankind . Radio Austria, 30, Vienna 1961

literature

• O. Kuhn: Obituary Lotte Adametz . In: Mitteilungen der Geologische Gesellschaft 59, 1966, pp. 255–257 (with picture and list of publications) online (PDF; 413 kB).
• Helmuth Zapfe : Obituary Lotte Adametz . In: Annalen des Naturhistorisches Museum Wien 69, 1966, pp. 11–13 (with list of publications) online (PDF; 386 kB).
• Helmuth Zapfe: Index Palaeontologicorum Austriae (= Catalogus fossilium Austriae issue 15). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1971, p. 9 online (PDF; 381 kB).
• Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , p. 7.
• Matthias Svojtka: Adametz, Karoline (Lotte) . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon from 1815 . 2nd revised edition - online. 1st delivery 2011.