Meinolf Hellmund

Meinolf Matthias Hellmund (* 1960 in Troisdorf ; † October 23, 2016 ) was a German geologist and paleontologist .

Life

Meinolf Hellmund studied geology and palaeontology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn and graduated in 1986 with his diploma thesis on the geology of the area around Rott with special attention to the tertiary flora and fauna . In 1987 he moved to the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz , where he in 1989 with his thesis on the European species of the genus Elomeryx Marsh 1894 (Anthracotheriidae, Artiodactyla, Mammalia) doctorate was.

Meinolf Hellmund then worked as a scientific volunteer at the State Museum for Natural History in Stuttgart and then from 1991 in the archaeological and palaeontological preservation of monuments at the Rheinisches Landesamt für Bodendenkmalpflege in Bonn.

Meinolf Hellmund intensively researched the Rott fossil deposit and made known from this site, among other things, clutches of dragonflies that had become fossilized in the period from 1987 to 1993. He published in part together with his father Winfried Hellmund (1928-2015), who was the director of studies at the Zum Altenforst grammar school in Troisdorf.

On June 1, 1992, Meinolf Hellmund succeeded Günter Krumbiegel as custodian of the Geiseltalsammlung , which in November 2009 was later incorporated into the newly founded central magazine for natural science collections of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (ZNS) in Halle (Saale) .

Meinolf Hellmund was married to the archaeobotanist Monika Hellmund, née Schäfer.

Fonts (selection)

• Contributions to the geology of the area around Rott with special consideration of the tertiary flora and fauna . Diploma thesis, 1986, pp. 1–211, University of Bonn (unpublished)
• with Wolfgang Böhme : Second find of a complete specimen of Chelotriton paradoxus Pomel , 1853 from the Upper Oligocene by Rott near Bonn (Caudata: Salamandridae) . In: Salamandra, 23, 2/3, Bonn 1987, pp. 142–152 ( digitized version )
• Hennef-Rott, a fossil discovery site of world renown in the Rhein-Sieg district . In: Yearbook of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis 1988, ISBN 3-925551-04-2 , pp. 152–157
• Revision of the European species of the genus Elomeryx Marsh 1894 (Anthracotheriidae, Artiodactyla, Mammalia) - Odontological investigations . Dissertation, 1989, University of Mainz
• Revision of the European species of the genus Elomeryx Marsh 1894 (Anthracotheriidae, Artiodactyla, Mammalia) - Odontological investigations . Palaeontographica, 220, Stuttgart 1991, pp. 1-101
• with Windolf Hellmund: Egg-laying behavior of fossil dragonflies (Odonata, Zygoptera) from the Upper Oligocene from Rott in the Siebengebirge . In: Stuttgart contributions to natural history, B 177, Stuttgart 1991, pp. 1–17 ( digitized version )
• with Windolf Hellmund: New discovery of fossil egg arches (Odonata, Zygoptera, Coenagrionidae) from the Upper Oligocene by Rott in the Siebengebirge . In Decheniana, 146, Bonn 1993, pp. 348-351
• with Windolf Hellmund: For the endophytic oviposition of fossil dragonflies (Insecta, Odonata, Zygoptera), with description of a new type of clutch . In: Communications from the Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Historical Geology, 36, Munich 1996, pp. 107–115 ( digitized version )
• Skeleton reconstruction of Propalaeotherium hassiacum (Equidae, Perissodactyla, Mammalia) based on the finds from the Eocene Geiseltal (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany) . Hallesches Jahrbuch für Geoswissenschaften, Series B, Supplement 12, 2000, pp. 1–55

literature

• Norbert Hauschke, Michael Stache, Volker Wilde and Reinhard Ziegler: Obituary Dr. Meinolf Hellmund (1960–2016) . In: Hallesches Jahrbuch für Geoswissenschaften, 40, 2017, pp. 81–83

Web links

• Literature by and about Meinolf Hellmund in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Meinolf Hellmund in the bibliographic database WorldCat