Reinhard Foerster
Reinhard Förster (born August 18, 1935 in Dätzdorf in Silesia , † November 29, 1987 in Munich ) was a German geologist and paleontologist.
After fleeing Silesia, Förster grew up in Bielefeld and studied geology and palaeontology at the University of Göttingen from 1956 with a diploma as a geologist in 1961. He wrote his thesis (on the stratigraphy and tectonics of the Kulm at the Okertalsperre in the Harz Mountains) under Hermann Schmidt and Erich Note . In 1964 he received his doctorate under Richard Dehm at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (About the Erymids, an old, conservative group of the Mesozoic decapods). He then worked there until 1970 as an assistant at the Institute for Historical Geology and Paleontology. In 1967, 1969 and 1971 he undertook expeditions to Mozambique as part of the geological mapping of Africa project. He later went on expeditions to other parts of Africa (Libya, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Tanzania, Nigeria) to research the breakup of Gondwana in the Cretaceous and stratigraphic questions of the sea advances that occurred. In 1985/86 he was involved in a British expedition to Antarctica.
From 1970 he was curator and from 1976 chief curator at the Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology in Munich. From 1976 he was also a lecturer at the University of Munich.
He was a specialist in decapods of the Mesozoic and dealt with the Mesozoic Africa.
The large crayfish ( Astacidea ) Pseudoglyphea foersteri (Feldmann, Crisp & Pirrie, 2002) as well as the Förster-Kliffs and indirectly the Förster Valley on James Ross Island in Antarctica were named in his honor.
Some initial descriptions come from him (such as Aeger gracilis , Förster & Crane 1984).
Fonts
- The reptant decopods of the Triassic. In: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 128, 1967, pp. 136–194
- The Mecochiridae, a specialized family of the Mesozoic Glypheoidea (Crustacea, Decapoda). In: New Yearbook for Geology and Paleontology, Abhandlungen, 137, 1971, pp. 396-421
- The geological development of South Mozambique since the Lower Cretaceous and the ammonite fauna of the Lower Cretaceous and Cenomanians. Hanover: Federal Institute for Geosciences. u. Raw materials, 1975
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Australian Antarctic Data Center, Förster Cliffs ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Forester, Reinhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geologist and paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dätzdorf , Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 29, 1987 |
| Place of death | Munich |