Otto Griepenkerl (paleontologist)

Otto Griepenkerl (* 1820 ; † 1888 ) was a German doctor and paleontologist .

Life

Griepenkerl came from a well-known Brunswick family: he was the son of the literature professor at the Carolineum Friedrich Conrad Griepenkerl (1782–1849) and brother of the poet (author of a Robespierre drama) and literature professor at the Carolineum (until 1844) Wolfgang Robert Griepenkerl (1810–1868) ). From 1840 he studied medicine in Göttingen.

Griepenkerl was a resident doctor in Königslutter am Elm from 1861 to 1886 . He was a fossil collector in the Muschelkalk of the Elm and in the chalk stage of the Senon (today Santonium to Maastrichtium in the Upper Cretaceous) opened up north of Königslutter .

Some first descriptions come from him, including the cephalopod Noetlingites strombecki (Griepenkerl 1860), which he named after August von Strombeck . One of the main collection points was the old Göesche marl pit on the road from Boimstorf toehre. According to Otto Klages , the Dutch Geological Society honored him at their meeting in Königslutter in 1959 on the excursion to this mine with a minute's silence in recognition of his services. In his paper from 1889 he described around 150 species from this site.

Fonts

A new ceratite shape from the lowest corrugated limestone. In: Journal of the German Geological Society. Volume 12, 1860, pp. 816-820.
The fossils of the Senones Chalk from Koenigslutter in the Duchy of Braunschweig. Berlin, G. Reimer, 1889, online via the Braunschweig digital library.

Web links

Frank-Detlef Paul: A historical point of discovery for pebble sponges in the upper Untercampan near Glentorf between Wolfsburg and Königslutter. on steinkern.de (PDF)
Otto Klages (1961): Otto Griepenkerl on kaiserdom-koenigslutter.info

References and comments

↑ Life data after Christian Juranek's dissertation against a whole time. Hans Graf von Veltheim (1818–1854): life, literature, art. University of Hildesheim 2006, pdf , page 122, footnote 346. There, according to H. Wätjen Braunschweigische family Griepenkerl. From old letters and diaries. Bremen 1976.
↑ Otto Klages, The Geological Adventure , Das Moosholzmännchen No. 84, 1971

personal data
SURNAME	Griepenkerl, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German doctor and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH	1820
DATE OF DEATH	1888

[1] Life data after Christian Juranek's dissertation against a whole time. Hans Graf von Veltheim (1818–1854): life, literature, art. University of Hildesheim 2006, pdf , page 122, footnote 346. There, according to H. Wätjen Braunschweigische family Griepenkerl. From old letters and diaries. Bremen 1976.

[2] Otto Klages, The Geological Adventure , Das Moosholzmännchen No. 84, 1971