Leo Paul Oppenheim

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Leo Paul Oppenheim (born May 28, 1863 in Berlin , † January 19, 1934 in Lichterfelde ) was a German geologist and paleontologist . Its botanical author abbreviation is " Oppenheim ".

Life

After attending the French grammar school in Berlin, Leo Paul Oppenheim studied natural sciences at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , with a focus on zoology and geology. Paul Oppenheim was in Berlin with his dissertation on the ancestors of our butterflies in the secondary and tertiary period Dr. phil. doctorate and appeared from 1885 as a private scholar with geological and paleontological publications.

Paul Oppenheim first lived at Kantstrasse 158 in Charlottenburg and later in the Lichterfelde villa colony in Berlin-Lichterfelde West at Sternstrasse 19, today's Kadettenweg.

He described numerous fossils from the area of ​​southern Central Europe and Southeast Europe and worked intensively with the Bohemian-Austrian geologist and mineralogist Friedrich Katzer , who sent him fossils from Bosnia and Herzegovina for processing.

He is the first to describe numerous taxa such as the genus Phragmatoecites Oppenheim , which is now part of the round-headed cicadas , in 1885, with the type species Phragmatoecites damesii Oppenheim , which he named in honor of his teacher Wilhelm Dames , 1885. He described the taxon Ocnerites macroceraticus Oppenheim from the Rott fossil site , 1885, which is now part of the caddis flies .

Paul Oppenheim was accepted as a member of the German Geological Society in 1889 at the suggestion of Ludwig von Ammon , August Rothpletz and Karl Alfred von Zittel .

In 1896 he became a member of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory.

Fonts (selection)

  • The ancestors of our butterflies in the secondary and tertiary periods . Dissertation Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin, 24 p., Gensch, Berlin 1885
  • The ancestors of our butterflies in the secondary and tertiary periods . In: Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, 29, 1885, pp. 331–349 ( digitized version )
  • The insect world of lithographic slate in Bavaria . In: Palaeontographica, 34, 1888, pp. 215–247 ( digitized version )
  • New crustacean larvae from the lithographic slate of Bavaria . In: Journal of the German Geological Society, 40, 1888, pp. 709–719 ( digitized version )
  • Contributions to the geology of the island of Capri and the Sorrento peninsula . In: Journal of the German Geological Society, 41, 1889, pp. 442–490 ( digitized version )
  • The land and freshwater snails of the Vicentine Eocene formations. A paleontological-zoographic study . In: Memoranda of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, 57, Vienna 1890, pp. 113–150 ( digitized version )
  • Jurassic insect remains and their interpretations . In: New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geology and Palaeontology, 1891, 1, pp. 40–57 ( digitized version )
  • Revision of the tertiary echinids of Veneto and Trentino, with the announcement of new forms . In: Journal of the German Geological Society, 54, 1902, pp. 215–247 ( digitized version )
  • Addendum to my article: Revision of the tertiary echinids of Veneto and Trentino, with the communication of new forms . In: Journal of the German Geological Society, 54, 1902, Briefliche Mittheilungen, pp. 66–71 ( digitized version )
  • About tertiary fossils, probably Eocene age, from Cameroon . In: Ernst Esch, Friedrich Solger , Leo Paul Oppenheim and Otto Jaekel : Contributions to the geology of Cameroon . Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 1904, pp. 243–285 ( digitized version )
  • New contributions to the geology and paleontology of the Balkan Peninsula . Contributions to the paleontology and geology of Austria-Hungary and the Orient, 25, 1912 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Stjepan Ćorić: The geological exploration of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the fundamental contribution of Austrian geologists . In: Abhandlungen der GBA, Vol. 56/1 Vienna 1999, pp. 137-138, ISBN 3-85316-004-2 ( digitized version )
  • Bruno von Freyberg : The geological literature on northeast Bavaria (1476-1965). Part II: Biographical Author Register. Geologica Bavarica, 71, Bavarian Geological State Office, Munich 1974, p. 113
  • Isidore Singer : Oppenheim, Leo Paul . In: Jewish Encyclopedia , Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901–1906 ( digitized version )

Web links

 Wikispecies: Leo Paul Oppenheim  - Species Directory

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journal of the German Geological Society, 41, 1889, p. 563 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Oppenheim, Leo Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1934
Place of death Lichterfelde