Lennart from Post
Lennart von Post (born June 16, 1884 , † January 11, 1951 ) came from the German-Swedish noble family von Post and was a Swedish geologist, from 1929 to 1950 professor of geology at Stockholm University . With his diagrams for pollen analysis published in 1916, the student of Rutger Sernander is considered to be the founder of palynology .
In 1930 he took over the chairmanship of the Swedish Geological Association (Geologiska Föreningen). He examined pollen in the peat of boggy lakes. With the help of the microscope , he determined the species of plants and counted the percentages of trees, bushes and grasses, which made a relative chronology possible.
Fonts
- with Emelie von Walterstorff and Sune Lindqvist : Bronsåldersmanteln från Gerumsberget i Västergötland (= Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Academies. Monograph series. 15, ISSN 0347-0873 ). Akademiens Förlag, Stockholm 1925.
- Some tasks of the regional moor research (= Sveriges Geologiska Undersökning. Series C: Avhandlingar och uppsatser. 337 = Sveriges Geologiska Undersökning. Årsbok. Vol. 19, No. 4, 1925, ISSN 0082-0016 ). Norstedt, Stockholm 1926.
- The Prospect for Pollen Analysis in the Study of the Earth's Climatic History. In: New Phytologist. Vol. 45, No. 2, 1946, ISSN 0028-646X , pp. 198-203, doi : 10.1111 / j.1469-8137.1946.tb05056.x .
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| SURNAME | Post, Lennart von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 16, 1884 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 1951 |