Richard Blezinger

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Richard Blezinger (born November 8, 1847 in Gaildorf ; † June 4, 1928 ) was a German fossil collector and pharmacist in Crailsheim .

Life

After his apprenticeship in his parents' pharmacy in Gaildorf, he went on a journey in 1866 as an assistant in pharmacies in Hall (with his brother), Graz and Wiesbaden. In 1872 he passed the pharmacy exam at the University of Tübingen. In 1874 he took over the Faber'sche pharmacy in Crailsheim (today after moving Jagst pharmacy). He was an honorary doctor of the University of Tübingen, which acquired a large part of his valuable collection in 1921 (also thanks to a courtesy from Blezinger). He also donated valuable fossils, which he collected in the Muschelkalk and Lettenkeuper in the area around Crailsheim, to the Royal Natural History Cabinet in Stuttgart. He was a councilor. His country house villa on the Kreckelberg near Crailsheim, which he had built in the Renaissance style in 1894/95, had a geological pyramid with characteristic fossils of the area. After his death he bequeathed it to the city as a public recreation area and it is a popular lookout point.

In his honor, Ernst Koken named the gastropod Chemnitzia blezingeri in 1898 and Emil Philippi named the mussel Myalina blezingeri in 1899 . For the by Eberhard Fraas 1896 ? Nothosaurus ichthyospondylus nov. sp. named marine reptiles from the Upper Muschelkalk, which at that time, certain to have a new genus, he classified only provisionally as nothosaurs , Friedrich von Huene established the new genus Blezingeria in 1951 in honor of Blezinger and classified them as belonging to the ichthyosaurs , they will today classified as a relative of the Thalattosauria ( Rupert Wild ). Blezinger found the holotype .

He had been an honorary citizen of Crailsheim since 1912. A plaque on the town hall commemorates him.

literature

  • Hans Hagdorn : Crailsheim and the exploration of the Triassic in Württemberg. In: Hans Hagdorn (Hrsg.): New research on the geological history of Crailsheim. In memory of Hofrat Richard Blezinger. Special volumes of the Society for Natural History in Württemberg, 1, Stuttgart 1988, pages 9–21
  • Hans Hagdorn: A fossil collector and his collection. Hofrat Dr Richard Blezinger on the 50th anniversary of his death. Jh. Ges. F. Naturkunde in Württemberg, Volume 134, 1979, pp. 111-125
  • K. Wiedmann (Hrsg.): Hofrat Dr.hcRichard Blezinger and the Crailsheimer Geology. Crailsheim 1987.
  • Hans König: People from the Limpurger Land, Volume 1, 1998, pp. 21-23

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References and comments

  1. ↑ The original pharmacy in Karlstrasse. (Blezinger House) was destroyed in the war in 1945 and rebuilt in 1949, but then demolished in 2010 for the new town hall. The descendants moved the pharmacy to the Jagstbrückenhaus as early as 1975. The original pharmacy in Karlstr. existed since 1833.
  2. ↑ Crailsheim's favorite places: The view from Kreckelberg, Hohenloher Tagblatt, February 26, 2014
  3. ↑ F. v. Huene, a new genus of lchthyosaurs from the Middle Triassic. N. Jb. Geol. Paleont., Abh. 94, 1951, pp. 80-92
  4. ↑ Blezingeria, paleofile
  5. ↑ Blezingeria
personal data
SURNAME Blezinger, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fossil collector and pharmacist
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Gaildorf
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 1928