Paul Gustaf Krause
Paul Gustaf Ludwig Wilhelm Krause (born October 7, 1867 in Neustadt (Dosse) , † October 25, 1945 in Eberswalde ) was a German geologist and paleontologist .
Life
Krause did his Abitur in Eberswalde and studied in Berlin . He then worked as an assistant in Marburg and went to the Geological-Paleontological Institute of the University of Leiden as curator , where he worked in particular on the geology of Indonesia.
From 1902 to 1933 he was at the Prussian Geological State Institute , where he became department head and state geologist. Paul Gustaf Krause was one of the 34 founding members of the Paleontological Society in August 1912 and became the Society's first treasurer on September 6, 1912 . In 1942 he became an honorary member of the Paleontological Society. In 1916 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
He died in 1945 of heart failure after routine surgery.
Fonts
- The decapods of the north German Jura . In: Journal of the German Geological Society, Volume 43, 1891, pp. 171–225 digitized
- The Pliocene of East Prussia and its relationship to the Northwest German and West German Pliocene , Abh. Preuss. Geolog. Landesanstalt, issue 144, 1933
- The fauna of the chalk from Temojoh in West Borneo , Leiden 1902
literature
- Obituary in Geological Yearbook, Volume 64, 1950, p. 11
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of geologists of the PGLA, with photo
- ^ Palaeontological Journal 1, Issue 1, March 1914
- ^ Member entry by Paul Gustaf Krause at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 1, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krause, Paul Gustaf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krause, Paul Gustaf Ludwig Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 7, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neustadt (Dosse) |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 25, 1945 |
| Place of death | Eberswalde |