Michael Wachtler

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Michael Wachtler (born February 2, 1959 in Innichen , South Tyrol ) is a South Tyrolean book author and researcher.

Life

During his student days he began taking part in expeditions into the mountains. Especially crystals and fossils aroused his interest. His teacher, Nolli Huber, fell fatally in 1984 while walking together in a crystal walk. From 1980 to 1990 he participated in the founding of the Pustertaler Zeitung and the Rundschau von Vinschger in South Tyrol.

1990 discovered Wachtler in the Dolomites with Voltzia dolomitica and Voltzia ladinica two new primitive conifer species . He also researched the fossilized remains of the Bjuvia dolomitica plant , a primitive cycad . Together with the Dutch scientist Han van Konijnenburg - van Cittert he described it.

The first books and documentaries were published during this time, especially about the life of crystal seekers in the Alps or the history of the Dolomites.

In 1999 the “Piz da Peres fossil deposit” was discovered in the Braies Dolomites . It is classified as the "Garden of Eden of primeval times" . After the great Permian Triassic catastrophe , in which over 90% of all living things became extinct, a multitude of new plants, fish and land creatures developed here.

Megachirella wachtleri

In 1999 Wachtler discovered a well-preserved skeleton of a small reptile, which was named Megachirella wachtleri . In a phylogenetic study published in 2013, the two Italian researchers Silvio Renesto and Massimo Bernardi confirmed that this species is close to the common origin of the Squamata and Rhynchocephalia , i.e. snakes and lizards, one of the most common reptile groups today.

New plant species

A found of Wachtler Urfarn was by him, Han van Konijnenburg - van Cittert and Evelyn Kustatscher 2005 with the name Gordonopteris lorigae named and honored the Scottish Maria Ogilvie-Gordon and the Italian researcher Carmela Loriga-Broglio. As a result, Michael Wachtler described an abundance of new fossil plants in his "The Genesis of Plants" . Especially the juxtaposition of an abundance of modern cycad plants (Bjuvia) together with extremely primitive club moss trees ( Lycopia ) aroused the interest of science. The Austrian paleontologist Georg Kandutsch names the fern genus Wachtleria, a forerunner of the Lindsaeaceaen, which still occurs in the southern hemisphere, after him.

Development of DoloMythos and imprisonment

At the same time, Wachtler devoted himself to the organization of exhibitions and museum concepts. Together with the Carinthian Georg Kandutsch, he built the first “treasure chambers of nature” . These are museum centers. Known is "Dolomythos" castle-like in Michael Wacht Jewelers Villa in San Candido . It shows the history of the Dolomites from the beginning to the present day. In December 2010, a special unit of the Carabinieri confiscated 3,700 archaeological finds that were being kept in the Dolomythos Museum. The public prosecutor's office is investigating illegal possession of cultural property and the importation of archaeological finds from abroad. Wachtler is also accused of not having prepared the pieces properly. The state of South Tyrol, for its part, has filed a claim for damages of 204,599 euros for damage to the state's reputation. In the first instance Michael Wachtler was sentenced to a prison term of 10 months. Wachtler took this as a “judgment against science” . The “Dolomythos” museum has around 30,000 visitors a year.

Publications

  • Tyrol saga . ATHESIA Spectrum publishing house, Bolzano ISBN 978-88-6011-068-8
  • The soul of nature . ATHESIA Spectrum Publishing House, Bolzano ISBN 88-6011-038-6
  • The history of the Dolomites . ATHESIA Spectrum Publishing House, Bolzano ISBN 88-6011-012-2
  • Rock people . Provincial publishing house, Brixen ISBN 88-88118-06-3
  • with Günther Obwegs: War in the mountains . Athesia Spectrum, Bozen ISBN 88-87272-42-5
  • Crystal Walks, How People Learned to Understand the Stones . Weise, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-921656-72-3 .
  • Dolomites - war of death and suffering (with Paolo Giacomel and Günther Obwegs). Athesia Spectrum, Bozen 2005, ISBN 978-88-601-1016-9 .
  • Give back the wild to the wild! - A man of the mountains fights for nature . Kosmos, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-440-14160-1 .
  • The Genesis of Plants. Preliminary researches about the Early-Middle Triassic Fossil Floras from the Dolomites. A compendium . Dolomythos 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolf Fritz, Friedrich Hans Ucik: New discoveries of plant fossils from Carinthia. In: Carinthia II. 193_113, 2003, pp. 449–454 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  2. ↑ http://www.naturmuseum.it/de/166.htm
  3. ↑ 3,700 archaeological finds confiscated from Michael Wachtler's museum ( memento from April 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), report from the online news portal Südtirolnews from December 14, 2010. Accessed on January 29, 2013.
  4. ↑ Dolomythos: Preparation on the test stand ( Memento from August 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), report by the Südtirolnews news portal from January 29, 2013. Accessed on January 29, 2013.
  5. ↑ DOLOYMTHOS (sic!) - Museum in danger of being closed by the authorities , entry on the museum's website. Retrieved January 29, 2013.
  6. ↑ Pustertaler Zeitung edition 25/2015, p. 44.
personal data
SURNAME Wachtler, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian filmmaker and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd February 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Innichen , South Tyrol