Kurt Frentzen

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Emil Karl Kurt Frentzen (born May 22, 1892 in Berlin ; † October 29, 1945 in Salem -Mimmenhausen) was a German paleontologist and paleobotanist .

Frentzen received his doctorate in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1916 . He was conservator at the Baden State Collection for Natural History and professor at the Technical University in Karlsruhe .

Since his dissertation he has dealt with the flora of the red sandstone in Baden-Württemberg and also completed his habilitation in 1931 on the red sandstone in southern Germany and its paleoecology . He also dealt with the fauna of the Amaltheus layers ( Lias Delta, named after the eponymous key fossil , the ammonites of the genus Amaltheus ) and foraminifera of the Jura .

Fonts

  • The flora of the Buntsandstein bathing, Mitt.Badischen Geologische Landesanstalt, 8, 1915 (dissertation)
  • The Keuper flora of Baden. In: Negotiations of the Natural Science Association in Karlsruhe, 28, 1922, pp. 1-76
  • Contributions to the knowledge of the fossil flora of southwest Germany. III: Latvian coal and sandstone reed flora. In: Annual reports and communications of the Upper Rhine Geological Association, New Series, 10, 1922, pp. 63–73; 11, 1922, pp. 1-14
  • The plants of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic Era, in: Wilhelm Salomon-Calvi (editor), Oberrheinischer Fossilkatalog, Borntraeger 1931
  • The educational history of the upper Buntsandstein in southwest Germany in the light of paleontology, Journal of the German Geological Society, Volume 38, 1931, 517-541 (habilitation thesis)
  • The most important sites of fossil plants in Baden and the formation of their plant-bearing layers, 5. Muschelkalk, 6. Keuper, 7. Rhät, 8. Jura, 9. Tertiary. In: Badische Geologische Abhandlungen, 3, 1931, pp. 41–65
  • The Lias Delta (Amaltheen layers) in the area between Aselfingen and Aalen, session reports Heidelberger Akad. Wiss., 1934, 2
  • Ontogeny, phylogeny and systematics of the Amaltheen of the Lias Delta Southwest Germany, meeting reports Heidelberger Akad. Wiss., Math-Naturwiss. Class 1937
  • The foraminiferous faunas of the Lias, Doggers and lower Malms in the area around Blumberg (Upper Wutach region), contributions to natural history research in the Upper Rhine region 6, 1941, pp. 126–402
  • The foraminifera fauna of the Hamite layers (Strenoceras horizon) of the Upper Doggers in central Württemberg, Zentralblatt f. Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology, B, year 1942, No. 9
  • About the mass occurrence of Holothuria remains in the Jura Baden, New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology, monthly, Dept. B, Issue 4, 1944
  • Short biography EKK Frentzen with picture on p. 76

References and comments

  1. ↑ Brief biography in Bruno Freyberg: The geological literature on Northeast Bavaria (1476–1965) Part II: Biographical Author Register, Geologica Bavarica 71, Bavarian Geological State Office 1974
personal data
SURNAME Frentzen, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist and paleobotanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1945
Place of death Salem -Mimmenhausen