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Richard Oswald Karl Kräusel (born August 29, 1890 in Breslau ; † November 25, 1966 in Frankfurt am Main ) was an important German paleobotanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Krausel ".

life and work

Kräusel received his doctorate in palaeobotany under Ferdinand Albin Pax in 1913 in Breslau ( knowledge of the woods of Silesian lignite ), was temporarily military geologist in Southeast Europe during the First World War and was a professor at the Goethegymnasium in Frankfurt am Main from 1920. There he worked closely with the Senckenberg Natural Research Society and completed his habilitation in 1920 at the University of Frankfurt, where he taught palaeobotany from 1925, from 1928 as an extraordinary professor and from 1939 as an associate professor. In 1938 he became honorary director of the paleobotanical collection of the Senckenberg Society, which in 1941 became a separate department. In 1952 he retired as a teacher, but continued to work at the Senckenberg Society. His close colleague Friedemann Schaarschmidt became his successor in 1966 .

He dealt with plants from all geological ages from stromatolites of the Precambrian and the first land plants of the Devonian to the Tertiary . He recognized the importance of palynology early on and practiced a stronger integration of plant anatomy in palaeobotany than was usual up to then. With his friend Hermann Weyland , he studied the flora of the Devonian in the Rhineland and later the structure of leaves of the Tertiary. Other focal points were the wood construction of fossil conifers and the flora of the Mesozoic Era in southern Germany, Austria (especially Lunz) and Switzerland (Neuewelt near Basel), for example Ginkgoales and Bennettitales . He undertook research trips to Southeast Asia (1921, 1926), North America (1928, 1959, especially Devon), South Africa and Namibia (1928, 1953/54, 1963), South America (1924, 1947, Brazil 1956/57) and India ( 1960/61, 1964), especially in the Gondwana countries. The latter trips were also due to the destruction of their own collections, which had been moved to a castle near Frankfurt, during the Second World War.

He was a corresponding member of the American Botanical Society (1954), a member of the Leopoldina (1957) and an honorary member of the Palaeobotanical Society of India. In 1963 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Durham. On his 60th birthday in 1950, he received the Iron Senckenberg Medal.

Fonts

  • Sunken florets. An Introduction to Paleobotany . Senckenberg Book , Volume 25, 1950
  • with Hermann Weyland: The flora of the German Lower Devon . Dep. Preuss. Geolog. Landesanstalt, New Series, Volume 131, 1930, pp. 1–92
  • with Hermann Weyland: Contributions to the knowledge of the Devon flora . Part 1-3, Senckenbergiana, Volume 5, 1923, pp 154-184, Abhandlungen der Senckenbergische Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, Volume 40, 1926, pp 115-155, Volume 41, 1929, pp 315-360
  • The fossil coniferous woods . Palaeontographica, Vol. 62, 1919, pp. 185-280, Palaeontographica, Vol. 89 B, 1949, pp. 83-203
  • Investigations into the Mesozoic flora history of the alpine and southern German area . Part 1-3, Palaeontographica, Volume 84 B, 1938, pp. 21-43, Volume 87 B, 1943, pp. 59-93, Volume 89 B, 1949, pp. 35-82
  • The plants of the Silesian Tertiary . Yearbook of the Prussian Geological State Institute, Volume 38, 1920, pp. 1–338
  • The paleobotanical research methods . Fischer, Jena 1929, 1950
  • Central European flora . Kronenverlag, Hamburg 1954
  • with Friedemann Schaarschmidt: The Keuper flora from Neuewelt near Basel . 1-4, Schweizer Paläontologische Abhandlungen, Volume 71, 1955, pp. 1-27, Volume 77, 1959, pp. 1-19, Volume 84, 1966, pp. 1-64.

literature

  • Friedemann Schaarschmidt:  Krausel, Richard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 642 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Volker Wilde: Richard Kräusel (1890–1966) - Its significance for research into the Triassic flora . In: Norbert Hauschke, Volker Wilde (ed.): Trias - a completely different world . F. Pfeil, Munich 1999
  • David L. Dilcher, Friedemann Schaarschmidt: Richard Kräusel. His Life and Work (PDF; 7.2 MB). In: Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 147, 1992, pp. 7-18 (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography at Jstor-Plant Science
personal data
SURNAME Ripple, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kräusel, Richard Oswald Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleobotanist
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1966
Place of death Frankfurt am Main