Paul Range

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Range, Imperial Geologist in Lüderitz Bay

Paul Theodor Range (born May 1, 1879 in Lübeck ; † August 29, 1952 there ) was a German geologist and botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Range ".

biography

Range was a son of the Lübeck director of the Lübeck trade school . After he attended the Katharineum and passed his high school diploma in Parchim , he studied natural sciences in Würzburg and Leipzig and received his doctorate in 1903. From 1904 he was a geologist at the Prussian State Geological Institute . Since 1906 he was employed as an imperial geologist by the colonial office for the water development work in the Lüderitzbucht - Keetmanshoop district . Until 1914 the government geologist (Reichsgeologist) was Heinrich Lotz's successor(FW Voit was responsible in the north) in German South West Africa, responsible for the southern areas. He was digging for groundwater there and was commissioned by the government to investigate the diamond finds in Lüderitz Bay around 1907, which sparked a diamond fever. In 1908 he confirmed the diamond finds, which were initially met with skepticism. He made the first geological map of Namibia , examined the connection to the Karroo sediments , recognized the Dwyka Tillite , discovered the Ediacaran fauna in the Namibian sediments and other specimens of the Gibeon meteorites . There he also collected plants for his herbarium, of which he sent duplicates to Berlin. The geological work ended with the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. The geologists were conscripted and the German troops surrendered in Namibia in May 1915. In 1915/16 he conducted research on the northern isthmus of the Sinai peninsula and in Palestine. After participating in World War I, he completed his habilitation in Berlin, became a non-official adjunct professor in Berlin in 1932 and gave lectures on colonial geology. From 1919 he was an employee of the Geological State Institute and in 1922 he became a secret mountain ridge.

In 1940 he became a member of the Leopoldina . In 1936 he became president of the German Geological Society .

The Namib gecko was named in his honor by Lars Gabriel Andersson in 1908 .

Fonts (selection)

  • The diluvial area of ​​Lübeck and its dryastones: in addition to a comparative discussion of the deposits containing glacial plants in general , 1903 (dissertation).
  • Geology of the German Namaland, contributions to the geological research of the German protected areas , issue 2, Berlin 1912 (with geological overview map).
  • Contributions and additions to the regional studies of the German Namaland, treatises of the Hamburg Colonial Institute , Volume 30, 1914.
  • Results of drilling in German Southwest Africa , Berlin, Geological State Institute, contributions to the geological research of the German protected areas, issue 11, 1915.
  • The flora of the isthmus desert , Society for Palestine Research , Berlin 1921.
  • The coastal plain of Palestine. With geological overview map on a scale of 1: 250,000 , Society for Palestine Research, 1922.
  • Accompanying words to the geological map of the isthmus desert, 1922
  • The Isthmus Desert and Palestine , Borntraeger, 1926 (with a contribution from Walter Hoppe: Paläontologie und Paläogeographie the Jurassic and Cretaceous layers of the Isthmus Desert).
  • with Richard Kräusel : Contributions to the knowledge of the Karruf Formation German Southwest Africa , Contributions to the geological research of the German protected areas, issue 20, 1928.
  • Geology of the Principality of Ratzeburg with map , messages from the Heimatbund for the Principality of Ratzeburg, Volume 17, 1935, Issue 1/2.
  • Four years of struggle for the Holy Land , Lübeck 1939, 2nd edition, Coleman.
  • Geology and mining of the German protected areas in Africa and in the South Seas , Tropenpflanzer, Volume 38, 1935, pp. 47-83.
  • Mineral finds and mining in the German protected areas in Africa and the South Seas , Kolonial-Rundschau, Volume 27, 1936, 196-209.
  • Geology and Mining of the German Protected Areas in Africa and in the South Seas , Berlin 1934–1937, Mittler (Colonial Economic Committee), 4 volumes,
  • The mineral treasures of the German protected areas in Africa and in the South Seas , Journal of the German Geological Society, Volume 89, 1937, p. 563.
  • The German South Sea and Kiautschou: Geology and Mineral Resources , in: Geology of the German Protected Areas , Enke, 1937.
  • The metallic raw materials of the German protected areas , Journal of the German Geological Society, Volume 90, 1938, p. 418.
  • The flora of Namaland , 1939.
  • On geological work at Lübec k, Lübeckische Blätter, Lübeck 1940, No. 48, Volume 82.
  • Mining and War , Enke, Stuttgart 1941.

literature

  • GIC Schneider: The history of the geological survey of Namibia , Communs geol. Surv. Namibia, Volume 12, 2000, pp. 1–14 (with photo by Range).
  • Mary Gunn, LE Codd: Botanical Exploration of Southern Africa , 1981.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diamond finds in German Southwest Africa. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1908, No. 28, edition of July 12, 1908, p. 117.
personal data
SURNAME Range, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Range, Paul Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1952
Place of death Lübeck