Milan Herak

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Milan Herak (born March 5, 1917 in Brašljevica , today part of the municipality of Ozalj , Croatia; † April 26, 2015 in Zagreb ) was a Yugoslav or Croatian geologist and paleobotanist .

Life

After graduating from high school, he studied natural sciences at the University of Zagreb from 1937 . 1942-43 he continued his studies in Vienna at the Natural History Museum and at the city's University continued and wrote his dissertation on the topic For information triadic calcareous sponges ( Sycones ). He received his doctorate in Zagreb in 1943 and did research there at a geological museum.

From 1952 he was a lecturer, from 1956 professor at the Technical Faculty of the University of Zagreb; In 1958 he switched to a professorship at the Faculty of Science and Mathematics at the University of Zagreb.

In 1973 he became a full member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts and was also a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (since 1977) and the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (since 1991).

Publications (selection)

Books

  • with Miroslav Tajder: Petrografija i geologija , 1951
  • Paleobotanika za geologist i biologist , 1953
  • Geologija - Struktura, dinamika i historija Zemlje , 1960
  • (as editor): Karst . Important karst regions of the northern hemisphere , 1972 ( ISBN 0-444-40849-5 ) - of the 16 chapters in this book, Herak is the author of 1 and co-author of 2 other chapters

Essays

  • Trias de Yugoslavie , in: Mémoires du Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières ( ISSN  0071-8246 ), vol. 15.1963, pp. 446–454
  • The calcareous algae in the stratigraphy of the Dinarides (Upper Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Era ), in: Mitteilungen der Geologische Gesellschaft in Wien ( ISSN  0072-1123 ), vol. 58.1965, pp. 10–217
  • with Mladen Juračić: Geological basis of environment protection in Croatia , in: Pollution and water resources. Columbia University seminar proceedings ( ISSN  0278-0925 ), Vol. 28.1994, pp. 233-259

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ To the knowledge of Triadic calcareous sponges ( Sycones ). In: New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology, sub-series: Treatises. Department B, Geology, Paleontology. Stuttgart, vol. 88.1943 / 44, pp. 107-135.
personal data
SURNAME Herak, Milan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav or Croatian geologist and paleobotanist
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Brašljevica , Ozalj
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 2015
Place of death Zagreb