Knud Johannes Vogelius Steenstrup
Knud Johannes Vogelius Steenstrup (born September 7, 1842 in Høstemark Mølle in the Aalborg office , † May 6, 1913 in Frederiksberg ) was a Danish geologist and Greenland researcher.
Steenstrup was the nephew of the zoologist Japetus Steenstrup . He graduated in pharmacy in 1863 and was an assistant at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen from 1866 . He stayed there until 1889 when he became the Danish state geologist in the land survey.
He made a total of nine trips to Greenland, which lasted up to two and a half years. There he collected, among other things, plant fossils from the Miocene of northwest Greenland, which were processed by Oswald Heer ( Flora fossilis arctica ). He showed that iron block deposits, which Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld found on Disko Island and took to be meteorites, actually originated in the basalt. A large part of his Greenlandic collection was lost in a fire in Christiansborg Palace in 1884.
He also studied the morphology of dunes in Denmark.
He was an honorary member of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland . In 1906 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen and in 1902 a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences . From 1896 he was a member of the Scientific Commission for Greenland.
Fonts
- On the storage conditions of the coals and fossils on the west coast of Greenland. In: Oswald Heer: Flora fossilis arctica. The fossil flora of the polar countries. Seventh Volume, J. Wurster & Comp., Zurich 1883, pp. 228-250 ( e-rara ); Map: The coal-bearing deposits on the west coast of Greenland ( e-rara )
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Steenstrup, Knud Johannes Vogelius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Høstemark Mill |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 6, 1913 |
| Place of death | Frederiksberg |