Rainer Springhorn

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Rainer Springhorn (born September 23, 1948 in Düsseldorf ) is a German geologist , paleontologist and former museum director.

Life

After graduating from the Max Planck Gymnasium in Düsseldorf in 1967, Springhorn studied geology, palaeontology, mineralogy, zoology and paleoanthropology at the University of Freiburg and the University of Innsbruck . In 1973 he graduated with a diploma in geology and paleontology. In 1976 he received his doctorate on the "Revision of the ancient tertiary European Amphicyonidae (Carnivora, Mammalia)". rer. nat.

After working as a scientific assistant to Günther Osche at the Zoological Institute in Freiburg, he was appointed curator and deputy director of the Lippisches Landesmuseum in May 1977 . In 1983 he completed his habilitation at the Geoscientific Faculty of the University of Freiburg with the thesis "New predators (Mammalia: Creodonta et Carnivora) from the lutetium of the Messel pit (Germany). He also received the teaching license for the subject paleontology Privatdozent lecturer at the University of Freiburg until he was appointed adjunct professor in 1990.

In 1986 he succeeded Friedrich Hohenschwert as director of the Lippisches Landesmuseum. In 1999 Springhorn became the museum director. He held this position until September 2011.

Michael Cell was his successor as director of the Lippisches Landesmuseum.

From 1982 to 2011 Springhorn was co-editor of the Lippische Mitteilungen of the Natural Science and Historical Association for the State of Lippe .

Awards

Special exhibitions

1979: life 50 million years ago. Fossils from the Messel Pit (Feist Collection)

  • 1989: On the 100th birthday of the artist Joachim Utech
  • 1991: "Handicrafts as documents from the life of women from Lippe"
  • 1992: "From the cigar band to the photo wallpaper" (for the 125th anniversary of the Klingenberg company )
  • 1997 "Dawn of New Times" (1997)
  • 1999 "Africa - Cult and Vision"
  • 2004 "Oceania - Cult and Vision"
  • 2009 "Myth - 2000 Years of the Varus Battle "
  • 2010 "175 years in 175 days" for the 175th birthday of the Lippe State Museum
  • 2011 "Ursaurier, Giant Scorpion & Co."

literature

  • Detlev Hellfaier, Ernst Fleischhack: Lippisches Autorlexikon . tape I . FL Wagener, Lemgo 1986, p. 196–197 ( online [accessed April 29, 2013]).
  • Prof. Dr. Farewell Rainer Springhorn . In: Detlev Hellfaier and Elke Treude (eds.): Museum, Region, Research: Festschrift for Rainer Springhorn / Landesverband Lippe (=  writings of the Lippisches Landesmuseum . Volume 7 ). Detmold 2011, ISBN 978-3-942537-00-1 ( abridged version [accessed April 29, 2013]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vereinschronik 1982. In: Lippische Mitteilungen , Volume 51
  2. ^ Association chronicle 2011/12. In: Lippische Mitteilungen , Volume 81
  3. ↑ Ring of honor for life's work - Professor Rainer Springhorn awarded by the Wald- und Forstmuseum Kalletal-Heidelbeck. (No longer available online.) December 6, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 18, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.vlothoer-anzeiger.de  
personal data
SURNAME Springhorn, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German museum director, geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf