Otto Follmann

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Otto Follmann (born December 10, 1856 in Landscheid , † June 11, 1926 in Koblenz ) was a German geologist , paleontologist and high school teacher .

life and work

Follmanns father was out of the country Scheider district Niederkail native village schoolteacher and Wies architect Hilary Follmann to the students of the subsidized from him Eifel poet Peter Zirbes belonged.

Follmann attended the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Trier , which he completed in 1878 with the acquisition of the Abitur. He then studied natural sciences with a focus on geology in Berlin, Münster and Bonn. In Bonn he received his doctorate in 1882 with a thesis on geology in the Eifel ( The Lower Devonian layers of Olkenbach ). After completing his doctorate, Follmann initially worked as an assistant at the geological institute in Bonn and aimed for a career as a university lecturer. However, since he did not have sufficient financial means to bridge a long waiting period for a professorship, he initially accepted a position as an assistant teacher at a Bonn grammar school and finally in 1889 became a teacher of mathematics and natural sciences at the Kaiserin Augusta grammar school in Koblenz. He worked there until his retirement in 1923. In addition to his work as a teacher, he continued to research and publish on the geology and palaeontology of the Eifel and was considered a respected expert in this field. The University of Bonn appointed him honorary professor for his achievements in 1908 .

In the course of 1926 Follmann fell seriously ill and died on June 11 of the same year as a result of his illness.

The Otto-Follmann street in his native country Scheid and Follmannstraße in the district of Koblenz gold mine are named after him. In archaeobotany , several types of lichen bear his name and the associated genus Follmannia .

Works (selection)

  • The Lower Devonian layers of Olkenbach . Dissertation, University of Bonn, 1882
  • The Eifel . J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart, 1894 ( review on JSTOR )
  • Andernach-Gerolstein volcano guide . Schaar & Dathe 1914, Trier 1914
  • Outline of the geology of the Eifel . G. Westermann, 1915
  • The Trier geologist Johannes Steininger (1794–1874) . Lintz, Trier 1920
  • The Koblenz layers on the Middle Rhine and in the Moselle area . Bonn, 1925

literature

  • Peter Kremer: The three professors from Landscheid. Jakob Marx the Elder-Jakob Marx the Younger-Otto Follmann . Eifeljahrbuch, Düren 1963, pp. 106-108
  • Wolfgang Schütz: Koblenz heads. People from the city's history: namesake for streets and squares . Koblenz 2005, p. 174 f.
  • Follmann, Otto , In: Heinz Monz (Hrsg.): Trier biographical lexicon . Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Trier 2000, ISBN 3-88476-400-4 , p. 118.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Gregor Brand: Otto Follmann . Eifelzeitung, January 19, 2011 (online copies: [1] , [2] )
  2. ↑ a b June 11, 1926. Prof. Dr. Otto Follmann died in Koblenz . Landesarchiv Rheinland-Pfalz (accessed June 7, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Follmann, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Landscheid
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1926
Place of death Koblenz