Maria Matilda Ogilvie Gordon

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Maria Matilda Ogilvie Gordon (1900)
Gordon: Geology of the Sassolungo Group (1940)
Gordon thanks mountain guide Kostner (1898)

Dame Maria Matilda Ogilvie Gordon DBE (also May Gordon and other spellings, born April 30, 1864 in Monymusk , Aberdeenshire ; died June 24, 1939 in London ) was a British paleontologist and suffragette .

Life

Maria Matilda Ogilvie was one of eight children of Maria Matilda Nichol and pastor Alexander Ogilvie. The scientist and director of the Science Museum in London, Francis Ogilvie , was her brother. She attended Edinburgh Ladies' College. After studying piano for a year at the Royal Academy of Music in London, she decided to study science and attended Heriot-Watt College in Edinburgh . She closed her 1890 study of geology, botany and zoology as a Bachelor of Science at University College London from. In 1891 she wanted to continue studying at Berlin University , but was not admitted as a woman . Instead, she went to the University of Munich and studied with the paleontologist Karl Alfred von Zittel and the zoologist Richard von Hertwig . The geologist Paul Heinrich von Groth, however, refused her access to his seminar. In the summer of 1891 she accompanied Ferdinand von Richthofen and his wife on a five-week tour to the South Tyrolean and Venetian Dolomites . They visited the geological and palaeontological sites in the St. Cassian Formation , which were already described by Georg zu Münster in 1834 , but still awaiting development . Ogilvie stepped into the wall and gathered a variety of previously unexplored fossils. Ogilvie has since specialized in geology and field research.

With the dissertation The geology of Wengen and St. Cassian strata in South Tyrol it was in 1893 at the University of London for Doctor of Science PhD in geology and was the first woman to receive this university degree. In 1893 she took part in a meeting of zoologists and geologists in Nottingham , at which the then still controversial question about the formation of rock formations in the Dolomites from a coral reef was discussed. In 1894 her conference report Coral in the “Dolomites” of South Tyrol was published in the Geological Magazine in Cambridge . In 1895 she married the doctor John Gordon in Aberdeen and they had three children. In 1900 she and Agnes Kelly from Scotland were the first women to receive a doctorate in natural sciences from Munich University. For von Zittel she translated his work History of Geology and Paleontology into English by the end of the 19th century .

Gordon worked mainly in the Dolomites and published about thirty scientific articles. She received the Lyell Medal in 1932, was ennobled to the DBE in 1935 and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh in 1935 .

Gordon was active in women's politics. She was at times Honorary Chair of the Associated Women's Friendly Society, the National Women's Citizens Association and Chair of the National Council of Women of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1904 she took part in the Berlin Congress, where the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) was founded. After the First World War, she became involved in the representation of women's interests in the League of Nations . In 1923 she ran unsuccessfully for the Liberal Party in the House of Commons by-elections in Hastings .

She was posthumously honored in 2000 with the naming of the fern fossil Gordonopteris Iorigae . At the University of Munich, the map room in the geological seminar is named after her.

Fonts (selection)

  • Coral in the “Dolomites” of South Tyrol . In: Geological Magazine , Cambridge University Press, January 1894, pp. 1-10. doi : 10.1017 / S001675680014035X
  • On the Fauna of the Upper Cassian Zone in Falzarego Valley, South Tyrol . In: Geological Magazine, Cambridge University Press, August 1900, pp. 337-349. doi : 10.1017 / S0016756800183220
  • Karl Alfred von Zittel: History of geology and palaeontology to the end of the nineteenth century . Translation by Maria M. Ogilvie-Gordon. Scott, London 1901
  • The International Council of Women and the meetings of the International Congress of Women in Berlin, 1904 . International Council of Women, Aberdeen Free Press, Aberdeen 1904
  • A handbook of employments specially prepared for the use of boys and girls on entering the trades, industries, and professions . Aberdeen, Rosemount Press, 1908
  • The health of the nations: compiled from Special Reports of the National Councils of Women . International Council of Women. Rosemount Press, Aberdeen 1909
  • The corals of the Stramberger layers: Paleontological studies of the boundary layers of the Jurassic and Cretaceous Formations in the area of ​​the Carpathians, Alps and Apennines . 7th part. Palaeontologica, Suppl. Vol. 3 pp. 73-282, 12 plates fol
  • The Val Gardena, Fassa and Enneberg areas in the South Tyrolean Dolomites. Tl. 1/2: Stratigraphy - Tectonics . Federal Geological Institute, Vienna, 1927
  • The Val Gardena, Fassa and Enneberg areas in the South Tyrolean Dolomites. Part 3: Paleontology . With an atlas of 13 plates. Federal Geological Institute, Vienna, 1927
  • Geological hiking book of the western Dolomites . Cartographic institute G. Freytag & Berndt, Vienna 1928
  • with Julius von Pia : On the geology of the Langkofel group in the South Tyrolean Dolomites . Communications from the Alpine Geological Association, Volume 32 for 1939, Vienna 1940

literature

  • Tillfried Cernajsek: Ogilvie-Gordon, Maria Matilda. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 541f.
  • Michael Wachtler , Cynthia V. Burek: Maria Matilda Ogilvie Gordon (1864-1939): a Scottish researcher in the Alps . In: Cynthia V. Burek, Bettie Higgs (Eds.): The Role of Women in the History of Geology . Geological Society of London, 2007, pp. 305-317 link
  • Ogilvie-Gordon, Maria Matilda. In: Marilyn Ogilvie, Joy Harvey (Eds.): The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science . Routledge 2000, Volume 2, pp. 959f. link
  • David Bressan: Maria Matilda Ogilvie Gordon: Pioneer Geologist of the Dolomites . In: Scientific American , March 20, 2013, link

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Patricia Krus: Pioneering women Former Carnegie grantholders Alumni: Maria Gordon (Geology) . ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, accessed March 7, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.carnegie-trust.org
  2. ↑ John Herklots: Agnes Murgoci (1874-1924) . Ryde Social Heritage Group, January 2015, accessed March 7, 2018 (English; pdf; 71 kB).
  3. ^ David Bressan: A women geoscientist in the Dolomites: Maria Matilda Ogilvie Gordon . History of geology blog, June 14, 2011, accessed on March 7, 2018.
  4. ↑ Map collection at the Department of Geology . University of Munich, accessed March 7, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Ogilvie Gordon, Maria Matilda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gordon, Maria; Ogilvie, Maria Matilda (maiden name); Ogilvie Gordon, May
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British geologist and suffragette
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Monymusk , Aberdeenshire
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1939
Place of death London