Otto Wilckens

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Otto Rudolph Wilckens (born September 17, 1876 in Bremen , † February 2, 1943 in Strasbourg ) was a German geologist and paleontologist .

Life

Wilckens, son of a lawyer, attended the old grammar school in Bremen with the Abitur in 1896. He studied geology and palaeontology in Geneva, Strasbourg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Berlin and Heidelberg. In 1903 he received his doctorate under Gustav Steinmann in Freiburg ( revision of the fauna of the Quiriquina layers ) and in 1905 he completed his habilitation in Freiburg ( The marine deposits of the chalk and tertiary formation in Patagonia ). Both with work on the geology and paleontology of South America. He completed his habilitation in Bonn and replaced Steinmann, who was professor in Bonn from 1906, in 1908 in the management of the Geological Institute during his trip to South America and received the title of professor for it. In 1910 he became associate professor in Jena and in 1913 full professor and director of the Geological-Paleontological Institute of the University of Strasbourg. He worked on palaeontological finds from Otto Nordenskjöld's Swedish Antarctic Expedition , which took place from 1901 to 1903, especially annelids, bivalves and gastropods of the Cretaceous and mollusks of the Tertiary, and dealt with the tectonics of the Alps (he specifically researched the Adula Mountains in Graubünden ).

In 1918 he lost his wife and in the same year after the end of the First World War he lost his professorship in Strasbourg. In 1919 he was given a teaching position at the University of Bonn. He continued to work on Antarctic fossils and on behalf of the Geological Survey of New Zealand gastropods of the Upper Cretaceous and Triassic fossils from New Zealand (as well as fossils from Indonesia at the request of Johannes Wanner ). He also dealt with the geology of the Bonn area. In 1923 he received a teaching position in the geology and palaeontology of the Rhineland in Bonn. He also taught at the Agricultural University of Bonn-Poppelsdorf, which after its integration into the university led to a teaching position in soil science. He headed the geological-mineralogical collection and taught geology for geodesists. After he officially continued to hold the title of a waiting professor at the University of Strasbourg (retired from 1938), he became provisional in 1941 and again as full professor director of the Geological Institute of the University of Strasbourg, which had been revived under German occupation from the German side.

In 1901 he became a member of the German Geological Society , in 1905 a member of the Swiss Geological Society, in the founding year 1910 a member of the Geological Association , and in the founding year 1912 a member of the Paleontological Society . In addition to Steinmann, he was editor of the Geologische Rundschau (1925 to 1938 as main editor) and co-editor of the Handbook of Regional Geology (where he was main editor from 1919).

In 1936 he became an honorary member of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He headed the natural science department of the Lower Rhine Society for Natural History and Medicine. The Wilckenskette in the center of South Georgia and the Wilckens Gully on Snow Hill Island are named in his honor .

literature

  • Johannes Wanner: Obituary. In: Geologische Rundschau, Volume 33, 1943, pp. 499-506

Fonts

  • Basics of tectonic geology. Jena 1912
  • The ceiling construction of the Alps. In: E. Abderhalden: Advances in natural science. Research. Volume 10, 1, 1914, pp. 1-62
  • General orogeny. Jena 1919
  • Geological local history of Bremen. Borntraeger 1922
  • The geology of the area around Bonn. Borntraeger 1927
  • Article Layer structure, mountains of the earth, tectonics, geology. In: Concise dictionary of the natural sciences.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Published in Steinmann, Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of South America, New Yearbook Mineral., Geol., Paläont., Beilagen, 18, 1904, pp. 181–284
  2. ^ New Yearbook Mineral., Geol, Paläont., Beilagen, 21, 1905, pp. 98-195
  3. ↑ Geologische Rundschau, 1, Engelmann, Leipzig 1910
  4. ^ Palaeontological Journal 1, Issue 1, March 1914
personal data
SURNAME Wilckens, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilckens, Otto Rudolph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1943
Place of death Strasbourg