Max Blanckenhorn

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Max Ludwig Paul Blanckenhorn (born April 16, 1861 in Siegen , † January 13, 1947 in Marburg ) was a German geologist and paleontologist .

Live and act

Blanckenhorn was the son of building councilor Carl Blanckenhorn and his wife Sophie, nee. Budach. He went to the Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Kassel after the family moved there in 1870. He studied in Göttingen , Berlin , Strasbourg and Bonn , where he in 1885 "on the triad on the northern edge of the Eifel between Commern, Zülpich and the Roerthale" doctorate . After that he initially stayed as an assistant in Cologne . In 1888 he became Konrad Oebbecke's private assistant in Erlangenand in 1891 he completed his habilitation in Erlangen. In 1894 he married Margarete Hattenbach, with whom he had four children. From 1897 he was a voluntary employee of the Prussian Geological State Institute , for which he was repeatedly active in mapping in the following years, especially in the years 1901 to 1907 and from 1911. In 1899 he moved to Berlin and worked in the local Museum of Natural History. In 1905 he received the title of professor from the Prussian minister of education. In 1912 he moved to Marburg , as he was mainly involved in mapping in northern Hesse. During the First World War he worked as a geologist in Macedonia .

In the years 1888 to 1931 he undertook various research trips to the Orient . These were in detail:

  • 1888 trip to northern Syria
  • 1894 trip to northern Egypt , western Sinai , southern Palestine
  • 1897–1899 Employment as a field geologist and collecting palaeontologist at the Geological Survey of Egypt for over two years. Since that time he has been called the "father of Egyptian geology".
  • 1901–1902 trip to Egypt
  • 1904–1905 trip to Palestine
  • 1906 trip to Egypt and Arabia , supported by the Prussian Academy of Sciences . Also occupation with the Hejaz Railway and flint artifacts.
  • 1908 trip to Palestine on behalf of Sultan Abdul Hamid supported by the Berlin Jagor Foundation. Working on the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea .
  • A trip to the Red Sea planned in 1914 on behalf of the Bank of England was thwarted by the First World War.
  • 1931 trip to Syria and Palestine at the invitation of French geologists

Based on this experience, he wrote a series of papers on the geology of Egypt , Syria and Palestine . These include a geological map of Palestine, a map of Northern Syria, a 341-page "Geology of Egytens", he was a pioneer in it, and the chapters on Syria, Arabia, Mesopotamia and Egypt in the handbook of regional geology. In addition, he also dealt with work on the history of the Nile, the Palaeolithic people in Egypt, with work on mineral deposits and meteorology.

Many sheets of today's geological map of Hessen were mapped by Blanckenhorn. He also worked on the Carte géologique internationale de l'Europe.

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various

In 1896 he published a 180-page “pocket songbook for naturalists and nature lovers who enjoy singing and hiking”.

Fonts

A comprehensive list of writings can be found in H. Udluft's obituary

  • The triad on the northern edge of the Eifel between Commern, Zülpich and the Roerthale. Treatises on the geological special map of Prussia and the Thuringian states, Volume 6, Issue 2, 135 pages, 3 plates, Verlag der Neumann'schen Kartenhandlung, Berlin 1885
  • The fossil flora of the red sandstone and the shell limestone in the area around Commern. Palaeontographica, 32: 117–154, Plates XV – XXII, 1886
  • About ceratites of the Upper German shell limestone. Relation to natural Ver. d. prussia. Rheinlande, 44, Sitzber., Pp. 26–32, 1887
  • The geognostic conditions of Africa: The Atlas, the North African Fold Mountains, Gotha: J. Perthes 1888
  • Basics of the geology and physical geography of northern Syria: a geological-geographical sketch, Berlin: Friedländer 1891
  • Contributions to the geology of Syria: The marine Pliocän in Syria, Erlangen 1891
  • Dinosaur finds in the Franconian Keuper. Meeting reports of the Physikalisch-Medicinischen Societät in Erlangen. 29 (1897): 67-91, 1898
  • The Neogene in Egypt and its Pectinid fauna, Berlin 1900
  • News on the geology and paleontology of Egypt, Berlin, Cotta, 1900, 1901
  • Editor with Lenore Selenka: The Pithecanthropus layers on Java: Geological and palaeontological results of the Trinil expedition (1907 and 1908), Leipzig: W. Engelmann 1911
  • Scientific studies on the Dead Sea and the Jordan Valley: Report on a research trip undertaken in 1908 (on behalf of SM by Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II and with the support of the Berlin Jagor Foundation) in Palestine, Berlin: Friedländer 1912
  • Syria, Arabia and Mesopotamia, Heidelberg: C. Winter 1914
  • Egypt, Handbook of Regional Geology, Volume 7.9, Heidelberg: C. Winter 1921

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5774, p. 111 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ The Trias on the northern edge of the Eifel between Commern, Zülpich and the Roerthale. Inaugural dissertation to obtain the doctorate of the high philosophical faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn submitted and defended with the attached theses on July 6, 1885, at 12 noon by Max Blanckenhorn from Siegen, University printing house of Carl Georgi, Bonn 1885
  3. ^ Günter Pflanzl:  Blanckenhorn, Max Ludwig Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 284 ( digitized version ).
  4. ↑ Preliminary remarks on a travel report by Blanckenhorn. (No longer available online.) Geologische Vereinigung eV, archived from the original on May 9, 2014 ; Retrieved November 3, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gv.de
  5. ↑ a b H. Udluft: Obituary for Max Blanckenhorn , with a photo. In: Notes of the Hessian State Office for Soil Research in Wiesbaden . Vol. 81, 1953, pp. 399-411.
  6. ↑ M. Blanckenhorn: The Tertiary of Lower Hesse. Final results of the geological surveys in Niederhessen from 1911-1946 . In: Notes of the Hessian State Office for Soil Research in Wiesbaden . Vol. 78, 1950, pp. 7-82.
personal data
SURNAME Blanckenhorn, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blanckenhorn, Max Ludwig Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION geologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Wins
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1947
Place of death Marburg