Paul Arbenz
Paul Arbenz , also Paul Arbenz von Andelfingen , (born September 23, 1880 in Zurich , † January 30, 1943 in Muri near Bern ) was a Swiss geologist .
Arbenz was the son of a chief engineer with the Swiss Northeast Railways. From 1900 he studied geology at the University of Zurich, where he was a student of Albert Heim , and then in Berlin and Paris. In 1908 he became a private lecturer at the University of Zurich and the ETH Zurich. In 1914 he became associate professor and in 1916 full professor at the University of Bern , where he was rector from 1932 to 1933 and twice dean. He turned down a call to the two Zurich universities (1928), not least because of the generous funding of his institute in Bern, where he had now established himself and had many students. He died of a heart condition that forced him to give up teaching as early as the spring of 1942.
He made contributions to ceiling theory in the Alps, especially in the Helvetic region, especially in the Bernese Oberland . He wrote a summary of his research on the Helvetic for the Geological Guide of Switzerland from 1934, which was published on the 50th anniversary of the Geological Society. In addition to the Helvetica, he also dealt with other parts of the Alps such as the Eastern Alpine nappes and their demarcation from the Penninic . In 1919 Arbenz wrote Problems of Sedimentation and its Relationship to Mountain Formation in the Alps, which pioneered the prehistory of the Alpine folds . He found evidence of cyclical sedimentation and jerky subsidence of the sea floor due to tectonic activity, as well as evidence of mountain formation when the sedimentation material mainly came from land. The type of analysis was influential on later research.
He mapped in the Alps between Meiringen and Urner Reuss Valley and in Central Grisons . A geological map of Graubünden (6 sheets, 1: 25,000, 1922 to 1930) was also developed from his school .
Since 1905 he was an employee and since 1921 a member of the Geological Commission of Switzerland. From 1910 to 1917 he was on the Swiss Glacier Commission and since 1930 on the National Park Commission.
Part of Arbenz's estate is in the Bern Burger Library .
literature
- Thomas Fuchs: Arbenz, Paul. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- H. Günzler-Seiffert, obituary in: Communications from the Natural Research Society in Bern from 1943, NF 1, 1944, pp. 157–167, with catalog raisonné.
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Arbenz in the catalog of the Burgerbibliothek Bern
Web links
- Publications by and about Paul Arbenz in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arbenz, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arbenz von Andelfingen, Paul (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 30, 1943 |
| Place of death | Muri near Bern |