Richard Johann Schubert
Richard Johann Josef Schubert (born December 18, 1876 in Müglitz , Moravia ; † May 3, 1915 near Ujście , Galicia ) was an Austrian geologist and paleontologist.
Life
Schubert was the son of a businessman and attended high schools in Olomouc and Melk . From 1895 and 1899/1900 he studied natural sciences with a focus on geology at the German University in Prague and at the University of Tübingen (in 1899 under the paleontologist Ernst Koken, among others ). In 1896/97 he did military service as a one-year volunteer and was then a demonstrator at the geological institute of the University of Prague. In 1899/1900 he was assistant to Viktor Uhlig at the German Technical University in Prague , where he received his doctorate in 1900, and from 1900 he was a volunteer at the Geological Institute (then headed by Guido Stache ) in Vienna. In 1901 he became an assistant and section geologist and in 1906 an adjunct. First he dealt with Dalmatia , after his marriage in 1908 to Maria Deutscher (with whom he had a daughter) with Moravia . During the First World War he was drafted as a lieutenant in the infantry and fell as a first lieutenant in the battle of Gorlice-Tarnów in 1915 .
He was considered a specialist for the Dalmatian coast - about which he published geological guides - and was a pioneer of micropaleontology ( foraminifera ) in Austria. He was considered a leading expert on recent and fossil foraminifera and worked on collections from Indonesia, among other things. He also dealt with ear stones ( otoliths ) from fish of the Tertiary .
His estate (field diaries, etc.) is in the archive of the Federal Geological Institute. He has been described as lively and open, and in his writings he adhered closely to observations with an aversion to theoretical speculation.
Fonts
- Geological guide through Dalmatia, Gebr. Borntraeger 1909 (also translated into Serbo-Croatian)
- Geological guide through the northern Adriatic, Gebr. Borntraeger 1912
- The fish otoliths of the Austrian-Hungarian Tertiary, in: Jb. Der kk geolog. Reichsanstalt, Volume 51, 1902, Volume 55, 1905, Volume 56, 1906
- On the validity of the basic biogenetic law in the foraminifera, in: Centralbl. for Mineral., Geol. and Paläontol., 1912
- The coastal countries of Austria-Hungary, in: G. Steinmann, O. Wilckens (Ed.), Handbook of Regional Geology, 5 / V / 1 A, 1914
- The geological conditions of the medicinal springs in Austria, in: K. Diem (Ed.), Österreichisches Bäderbuch, 1914
- Fossil protozoa and fossil and recent foraminifera, in FE Schulze (Ed.), Nomenclator generum et subgenerum, Berlin 1915
Web links
- Schubert, Richard (Johann Josef) (1876–1915), geologist and paleontologist. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999,ISBN 3-7001-2803-7, p. 277.
- Obituary by Otto Ampferer, pdf
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary by Otto Ampferer
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schubert, Richard Johann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schubert, Richard Johann Josef (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian geologist and paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 18, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Müglitz , Moravia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 3, 1915 |
| Place of death | near Ujście , Galicia |