Lukas Hottinger

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Lukas Conrad Hottinger (born February 25, 1933 in Düsseldorf ; † September 4, 2011 in Basel ) was a Swiss micro-paleontologist and biologist specializing in foraminifera (and here macro-foraminifera).

Life

Hottinger came from a family of doctors and was born a Swiss citizen in Düsseldorf. His father was Adolf Hottinger , later professor of pediatrics in Basel, and his mother Greta Cahn-Hottinger, daughter of Arnold Cahn and also a doctor. His older brother was the journalist Arnold Hottinger . He went to school in Basel (high school diploma at the Humanist Gymnasium in 1952) and studied geology , palaeontology, mineralogy , zoology and botany there (after starting to study medicine ) . He received his doctorate in 1959 under Manfred Reichel at the University of Basel on the systematics and biostratigraphy of the foraminifera group of the Alveolinidae of the Paleocene and Eocene . Like his teacher Reichel, he had a talent for drawing and made the drawings of foraminifera for his dissertation himself. As a post-doctoral student , he worked for the geological survey of Morocco from 1959 to 1964 under Georges Choubert and Anne Faure-Muret. There he set up their first micropaleontological laboratory in Rabat and taught at the University of Rabat . This led to his habilitation in Basel on foraminifera of the Jura of Morocco. From 1964 he was assistant curator at the Natural History Museum in Basel under the museum director Hans Walter Schaub (1913–1994), with whom he also worked a lot (they introduced the Llerdien shift in 1960 ) and was friends. At the museum he set up a permanent exhibition on the geology of the Basel area. In 1966, he succeeded his teacher Reichel as professor of geology and palaeontology in Basel and was also at the natural history museum there . In 1998 he retired. Since a visiting professorship at the Hebrew University in 1970, he has worked a lot with Israeli scientists (Zeev Reiss from the Steinitz Marine Laboratory in Elat) and since 1969 with micropalaeontologists in Slovenia ( Ljubljana ). He also had close contacts with research institutions and universities in Barcelona , Lahore , Isfahan and Naples .

He was considered an internationally recognized scientist for foraminifera, which he examined on almost all continents (such as the Indo-Pacific region, Africa, the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Pyrenees). In addition to fossil foraminifera, he also deals with recent ones, for example in the Maldives , Mauritius , the Gulf of Aqaba , the Mediterranean Sea and New Caledonia . He also used his expertise for studies on environmental pollution and the dumping of radioactive waste in the deep sea. He was a member of the international stratigraphic commission for the paleogene. He played a leading role in the IGCP (International Geoscience Program of UNESCO and IUGS) project Early Paleogene Benthos , which studied the development of marine fauna after the mass extinction at the turn of the Cretaceous-Tertiary, and in the IGCP project Neritic events at the Middle / Upper Eocene . He taught courses on macroforaminifera within the EU's COMETT program in the 1990s .

In 2007 he became a corresponding member of the Paleontological Society and he was a member of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (of which he was Vice President from 1988 to 1994) and the Slovenian Academy of Sciences (1993). In 1997 he received the Cushman Award from the Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research for his life's work and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona .

Hottinger published over 160 articles and six larger monographs .

He was married and had three sons.

Fonts

  • Recherches sur les Alveolines du Paleocene et de Eocene , Mémoires Suisses de Palèontologie, Volume 75/76, 1960
  • Foraminifères imperforés du Mesozoique Marocain , Notes et Mémoires du Service Géologique du Maroc, Volume 209, 1967
  • Foraminiferes operculiformes , Memoires Museum National Histoire Naturelle Paris, Volume C 40, 1977, (129 pages)
  • with Katica Drobne Early Tertiary conical foraminifera , Razprave, Volume 22, 1980, pp. 169-276
  • with Z. Reiss The Gulf of Aqaba, Ecological Micropaleontology , Ecological Studies, Volume 50, Springer Verlag 1984
  • with E. Halicz, Z. Reiss Recent foraminifera from the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea , Slovenska Akademija Znanosti in Umenosti (Ljubljana), classis IV, volume 33, 1993
  • as editor: Rotaliid Foraminifera , Memoires Suisses de Paleontologie, Volume 101, 1980
  • Larger Foraminifera, giant cells with a historical background , Naturwissenschaften, Volume 69, 1982, pp. 361-371
  • Learning from the past , in R. Levi-Montalcini (editor) Frontiers of Life , Volume 4, Part 2 (Discovery and spoliation of the biosphere), 2001, pp. 449-477
  • Illustrated glossary of terms used in foraminiferal research , Notebooks on Geology (Brest), Memoir 2006/2 (126 pages)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Sahm, Middle East expert Arnold Hottinger has died. A critical review , Audiatur, May 30, 2019
  2. ↑ Hottinger About eocaene and paleocaene Alveolinen , Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae, Volume 53, 1960, pp. 265–283, Hottinger Recherches sur les Alvéolines du Paléocène et de l'Eocène , Mémoires Suisses de Palèontologie, Volume 75/76, 1962, in two Volumes published on 243 pages, Hottinger Les Alvéolines paléogènes. Exemple d'un genre polyphylétique , in: E. Von Koenigswald (editor): Evolutionary trends in Foraminifera , Elsevier (Amsterdam), 1963, pp. 298-314
personal data
SURNAME Hottinger, Lukas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hottinger, Lukas Conrad (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Düsseldorf , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH 4th September 2011
Place of death Basel , Switzerland