Martin Schmidt (geologist)

Martin Schmidt (born December 12, 1863 in Aschersleben , † January 14, 1947 in Blankenburg (Harz) ) was a German paleontologist and geologist .

Life

His father was a deacon and later an archdeacon in the St. Stephani parish in Aschersleben, but was also interested in the natural sciences. Schmidt went to the Stephaneum high school in Aschersleben and later bequeathed parts of his fossil collection to the local history museum. After graduating from high school in Halberstadt, he studied zoology, geology and geography in Heidelberg, Berlin and Göttingen with the senior teacher examination in 1887. He then went to the Geological Institute in Göttingen, where he received his doctorate in 1893. From 1895 to 1901 he was at the Prussian Geological State Institute (PGLA) and mining academy in Berlin. In 1896 he became a member of the German Geological Society . From 1903 he was in the newly founded geological department of the royal Württemberg statistical office in Stuttgart. There he was involved in geological mapping and left 15 maps on a scale of 1: 25,000. In 1907 he completed his habilitation on the Wellengebirge in Freudenstadt. From 1912 he also taught palaeontology as an associate professor at the TH Stuttgart. During the First World War he was at the front as a reserve captain. In 1918 he became director of the Württemberg Natural History Collection in Stuttgart and geological curator as the successor to K. Lampert. In 1925 he retired.

He mapped in the Black Forest foreland, in the Tübingen area and in Upper Swabia. In retirement he lived in Tübingen , then in Quedlinburg and from 1935 in his home town of Aschersleben. But he continued to map in Württemberg and wrote numerous treatises, including his main work on the Triassic. Most recently he dealt with Paleolithic finds in the Aschersleben area, about which he has published.

He wrote a standard work on the paleontology of the Germanic Triassic with 2300 illustrations.

Schmidt remained unmarried throughout his life and died with relatives on his mother's side in Blankenburg.

Fonts

• About ammonoids of the wave mountains. In: Journal of the German Geological Society, 57, 1905, pp. 334–336.
• Labyrinthodont remains from the main conglomerate of Altensteig in the Württemberg Black Forest. In: Communications from the Geological Department of the K. Württemberg Statistical State Office No. 2, 1 plate, Stuttgart 1907, pp. 1-10.
• The wave mountains in the area of ​​Freudenstadt. Communications from the Geological Department of the K. Württemberg Statistical State Office No. 3, 99 p., 2 plates, Stuttgart 1907
• Ceratites antecedens and the ancestry of the nodoses . In: Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, 1907, pp. 528-533.
• The living world of our triad, 2 volumes, Öhringen: Hohenlohesche Buchhandlung Ferdinand Rau 1928 (supplement 1938), reprint Hennecke 2000 (461 + 144 pages)
• About the Ceratites of Olesa near Barcelona. In: Bulleti de la Institucio Catalana d'Historia Natural 2, 127, 9, 1932, pp. 195-221.
• About Ceratites antecedens and related forms. In: Yearbook of the Prussian Geological State Institute, 55, Berlin 1935, pp. 198-212, plate 13

literature

• Obituary in Jb.Prussian Geological State Institute (PGLA), 1952, vol. 66, p. 25

Web links

• Geologist list PGLA
• Radio Harz-Börde-Welle, the well-known Aschersleben researcher Martin Schmidt

Individual evidence

1. ^ Harz region, Museum of the City of Aschersleben
2. ^ Membership directory of the German Geological Society March 1921