László Trunkó
László Trunkó (* 1935 in Szolnok ) is a Hungarian-German geologist and paleontologist .
Life
After graduating from high school in Budapest in 1953, Trunkó studied geology at the Eötvös-Loránd University and after fleeing in 1956 as part of the Hungarian uprising at the University of Göttingen with a diploma in 1960 and a doctorate in 1961. From 1965 until his retirement in 1997 he was a conservator State Museum for Natural History Karlsruhe . From 1972 to 1997 he headed the geological and mineralogical department there. In 1969 he completed his habilitation in Karlsruhe and became an adjunct professor in 1978.
Fonts
- with Ksenija Grossheide: The Foraminifera des Doberges near Bünde and from Astrup: with contributions to the geology of these profiles (Oligocene, NW Germany), Geological Yearbook, supplements 1965
- Geology of Hungary, Borntraeger 1969
- Geology of Hungary, Borntraeger 1996
- Karlsruhe and the surrounding area. Northern Black Forest, southern Kraichgau, Rhine plain, eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest and the Northern Vosges. Borntraeger, Geological Guide Collection 78, 1984
- Hungary: mountains around Budapest, Balaton-Oberland, southern Bakony, with the collaboration of Pál Müller, Borntraeger, Geological Guide Collection 91, 2000
He translates from Hungarian, e.g. B. he gave the German edition of Jozsef Palfy Catastrophes in the history of the earth: global extinction of species? , Swiss beard 2005, and the German version of the Geological Atlas of Hungary 2010.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Trunkó, László |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szolnok |