Max Schlosser (paleontologist)

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Max Schlosser (born February 5, 1854 in Munich , † October 7, 1932 in Munich) was a German paleontologist .

Schlosser was the son of a royal Bavarian battalion doctor and attended the Ludwigsgymnasium in Munich. From 1873 he studied natural sciences at the University of Munich and the TH Munich with the teaching examination in 1878 and the doctorate with Karl von Zittel in paleontology in 1880 about the Jurassic fauna of the Kelheim Diceras limestone. In 1884 he went to Othniel Charles Marsh at the Peabody Museum of Natural History with the recommendation of Zittel , but returned a year later after illness. He was an assistant at Zittel and became curator in 1890, second curator in 1900 and then chief curator. In 1924 he retired, but continued to volunteer at the Bavarian State Collection.

In his time he was a leading expert on European tertiary mammals in Germany. Among other things, he dug up cave lions and cave bears. He also worked on fossil mammals from China (from purchases of so-called dragon bones in Chinese pharmacies, published in 1903). From this he described, among other things, a new saber-toothed cat species ( Paramachairodus maximiliani ) in 1904 . He edited the volume on vertebrate paleontology in the basics of paleontology for his teacher Zittel. From 1895 to 1904 he worked for the New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology .

Fonts (selection)

  • The fauna of the Kelheim Diceras limestone. First division: Vertebrata, Crustacea, Cephalopoda, and Gastropoda. Palaeontographica, Volume 28, Second Delivery, August 1881, Plates VIII – XIII, pp. 41–110 ( archive.org ),
  • The rodents of the European Tertiary. Palaeontographica, Volume 31, 1884, 1-140 ( archive.org )
  • The monkeys, lemurs, chiropteran insectivors ... of the European Tertiary. Contributions to the paleontology of Austria-Hungary and the Orient, Volume 6, 1887, pp. 1–224, ( archive.org ) Volume 7, 1888, pp. 1–192 ( archive.org )
  • The Triassic Region of Hallein. Journal of the German Geological Society, 50, Berlin 1898, 333–384, panels XII - XIII ( archive.org )
  • On the geology of the Lower Inn Valley. Yearbook of the Geological Reichsanstalt, 1909, pp. 525–574 ( archive.org )
  • The bear or Tischofer cave in the Kaisertal near Kufstein. Treatises of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Math.-Naturwiss. Kl. 24, Teilband 2, 1909, pp. 387-506
  • Contributions to the knowledge of the Oligocene land mammals from the Fayum (Egypt). In: Contributions to the palaeontology and geology of Austria-Hungary and the Orient. Volume 24, 1911, pp. 51-167
  • Guide to the Munich State Palaeontological Collection. 1912.
  • The Eocänfaunen of the Bavarian Alps. Dep. Bayr. Akad. Wiss., Math.-Naturwiss. Kl. 30, 1925, part volume 1, pp. 1-207, part volume 2, pp. 1-66

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personal data
SURNAME Locksmith, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1932
Place of death Munich