Louis Rutten
Louis Martin Robert Rutten (born June 4, 1889 in Maastricht , † February 11, 1946 in Utrecht ) was a Dutch geologist.
Life
Rutten studied geology, mineralogy and palaeontology at the University of Utrecht , where he studied with Arthur Wichmann (and in Munich with Stromer von Reichenbach ) and received his doctorate in 1909 on Ice Age mammals in the Netherlands. He then undertook mapping exercises in Romania under Carl Schmidt and was a geologist at the oil company Bataafsche Petroleum Matschappij (a forerunner of the Royal Dutch Shell ) in Borneo (with an expedition to Seram from 1917 to 1919), Java, Cuba, Argentina, Peru and Mexico. In 1921 he succeeded Wichmann as professor of geosciences in Utrecht. As such, he continued his excursions overseas and in particular the Dutch colonies with his students: in 1930 to the Netherlands Antilles, in 1933 and 1938 to Cuba. He taught a broad spectrum, but was soon relieved by Hendrik Albertus Brouwer in tectonics, Felix Andries Vening-Meinesz in geophysics and Josef Ignaz Julius Maria Schmutzer in mineralogy and petrography.
He published and mapped a lot in the Dutch colonies in the Caribbean and Indonesia. Another regional focus of his research was the Mediterranean area (the Beltic Cordillera and Pyrenees in Spain, the Balearic Islands, Dalmatia).
In 1919 he became a corresponding and in 1923 full member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences .
In 1910 he was married to Catharine Johanna Pekleharing, who had a doctorate in biology, who accompanied and assisted him on many of his expeditions, and is the father of the biologist Martin Rutten .
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| SURNAME | Rutten, Louis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rutten, Louis Martin Robert (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch geologist and paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 4, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Maastricht |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 11, 1946 |
| Place of death | Utrecht |