Otto Max Gabriel Schlagintweit

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Otto Max Gabriel Schlagintweit (born October 26, 1880 in Munich ; † April 27, 1956 ) was a German geologist and paleontologist who worked in Argentina .

Life

Otto Max Gabriel Schlagintweit came from a well-known Munich family of scientists and explorers. His father was the officer and founding member of the Munich Geographical Society Max August Rudolf Thomas Schlagintweit (1849-1935), his mother Lina Sedelmayr (1860-1942).

Otto Max Gabriel Schlagintweit studied in Munich and Bonn, where he received his doctorate in 1907 (The tectonic conditions in the mountains between Livigno, Bormio and St. Maria in the Münstertal). In 1907 he became a member of the German Geological Society . In 1910 he married Elly Varenkamp. In Munich he was a member of the Academic Alpine Club with a number of first ascents. In Argentina he worked as a geologist for the oil company YPF (Yaciemientos Petroliferos Fisicales), for which he worked mainly in northwest Argentina and which he left to become a professor at the University of Cordoba .

Fonts

  • Geological investigations in the mountains between Livigno, Bormio and St. Maria in the Münstertal. Journal of the German Geological Society, Volume 60, 1908, pp. 198-272
  • The fauna of the Vracon and Cenoman in Perú, contributions to the geology and palaeontology of South America, 17, Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart, 1911.
  • Ceratites spinosus E. Philippi from the middle main mussel limestone of Würzburg. Seating area Phys.med. Ges. Würzburg 1911, pp. 1-3.
  • The ceratites of the middle main mussel lime in Würzburg. Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, year 1921, Stuttgart, pp. 621–630,
  • Los insectos fósiles del Norte Argentina y la edad del Horizonte Calcáreo-Dolomítico. In: Boletín de Informaciones Petroleras, vol. 13, no. 145, pp. 61-69, 1936.
  • Acerca de las brújulas geológicas. Series ciencias naturales, no.7, Córdoba: Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, 1955.

literature

  • Ciencias naturales 19, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, 1956 (edition dedicated to him)
  • Pedro Stipanicic, Alfredo Cuerda: Pioneros de las ciencias geologicas y afines de la argentina y algunas de sus anécdotas, Cordoba, Academia Nacional de ciencias, 2004

Web links

References and comments

  1. ^ Membership directory of the German Geological Society March 1921
  2. ↑ Alpin Wiki ( Memento from April 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Schlagintweit, Otto Max Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1956