Richard Bärtling

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Theodor Carl Wilhelm Richard Bärtling (born November 17, 1878 in Hildesheim , † October 7, 1936 in Berlin ) was a German geologist.

Life

Richard Bärtling studied in Munich and Clausthal, received his doctorate in Munich in 1903 ( The Molasse and the glacial area of ​​the Hohenpeißenberg and its surroundings ) and was then employed from 1904 at the Prussian Geological Institute (PGLA). In 1909 he completed his habilitation at the Bergakademie Berlin on German barite deposits in applied geology. In 1922 he became an associate professor at the TH Berlin .

At the PGLA he mapped the Ruhr coal basin and became a state geologist. From 1934 he was head of the geological research center in Saarbrücken.

In addition to the geology of the actual coal seams, he also dealt with the overburden in the Ruhr area and was the first to recognize the marine transgression in the Upper Lower Cretaceous (Gault). He created geological maps of Dortmund, Soest, Münster, Warendorf, Unna, Bochum and Essen and, in 1927, a deep drilling map of the North Rhine-Westphalian coal area.

In 1904 he became a member of the German Geological Society and in August 1912 was one of the 34 founding members of the Paleontological Society .

In 1931 he organized the excursion of the German Geological Society to Lapland .

Richard Bärtling died in Berlin in 1936 at the age of 57 and was buried in the Dahlem forest cemetery. The grave has not been preserved.

Fonts

  • Usable rock deposits in Germany, 1915

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Palaeontological Journal 1, Issue 1, March 1914
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 577.
personal data
SURNAME Beardling, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bärtling, Theodor Carl Wilhelm Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1936
Place of death Berlin