Richard Wagner (geologist)

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Richard Wagner (born June 7, 1847 in Unterellen , † May 6, 1932 in Jena ) was a German teacher, geologist and paleontologist .

Life

Richard Wagner worked from 1877 to 1923 as a teacher of mathematics and natural sciences at the agricultural school in Zwätze near Jena. Wagner intensively researched the geology and paleontology of the area around Jena. In doing so, he succeeded in palaeontologically characterizing a series of previously unknown banks and layers in detail and tracing them over a larger spatial extent. His contribution to the detailed knowledge of the shell limestone near Jena from 1897 thus became the classic representation of the shell limestone near Jena. In addition, he published a number of smaller palaeontological works on cephalopods and crinoids of the Jena Triassic . Richard Wagner is the first to describe the cephalopod Beneckeia cognata , which is now assigned to Beyrichites cognatus ( Wagner ) in 1891.

In 1886 he became a member of the German Geological Society and in 1931 an honorary member of the Thuringian Geological Association . The Friedrich Schiller University Jena honored Richard Wagner for his services to researching the Jena Triassic with an honorary doctorate . Ernst Wilhelm Benecke named a graceful sea ​​lily from Jena Muschelkalk in his honor in 1887 as Encrinus Wagneri , which is now known as Holocrinus wagneri ( Benecke ) 1887.

Fonts

  • About recent fossilization finds in the Röth and Muschelkalk of Jena . In: Journal of the German Geological Society, XXXVII, Berlin 1885, pp. 807–810 ( digitized version )
  • The encrinites of the lower shell limestone from Jena . In: Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaften, 20, Jena 1887, pp. 1–32 ( digitized version ), 2 tables ( digitized version )
  • About Encrinus Wagneri BEN. from the lower shell limestone of Jena . In: Journal of the German Geological Society, XXXIX, Berlin 1887, pp. 822–828 ( digitized version )
  • About some fossils of the lower shell limestone from Jena . In: Journal of the German Geological Society, XLIII, Berlin 1891, pp. 879–891, Plate XLIX ( digitized version )
  • Contribution to a more detailed knowledge of the shell limestone near Jena . Treatises of the Royal Prussian Geological State Institute New Series, Issue 27, 105 p., Berlin 1897
  • New observations from the Muschelkalk and Röt from Jena . In: Yearbook of the Prussian Geological State Institute for 1921, 42, Berlin 1923, pp. 1–16

literature

  • Ernst Wilhelm Benecke: R. Wagner: The encrinites of the lower shell limestone of Jena . In: New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geology and Palaeontology, 1887, Volume I, E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung (E. Koch), Stuttgart 1887, p. 378
  • Karl Mägdefrau : The explorers of the Jena Triassic . In: Contributions to the geology of Thuringia, 6, 1941, pp. 85–96

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Membership directory of the German Geological Society 1921, digital copy
  2. ^ Honorary members of the TGV
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Unterellen
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1932
Place of death Jena