Rudolf Ruedemann
Rudolf Ruedemann (born October 16, 1864 in Georgenthal , Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha , † June 18, 1956 ) was an American paleontologist of German origin.
Life
Ruedemann studied geology at the University of Jena , where he received his doctorate in 1887 (dissertation: The contact phenomena on the granite of Reuth near Gefrees ) and at the University of Strasbourg , where he was an assistant from 1887 (and received his doctorate again). In 1892 he went to the United States, where he was a high school teacher in New York State (in Lowville, Dolgeville) and from 1899 at the State Museum of New York in Albany , after studying graptolites ( Diplograptus ) he attracted the attention of the state palaeontologist James Hall and found by John Mason Clarke . He was first Assistant State Paleontologist and from 1926 as successor to Clarke State Paleontologist of New York. In 1916 he was President of the Paleontological Society .
He dealt with paleontology of invertebrates, especially graptolites, but also corals, Eurypterids , trilobites and cephalopods . In 1937 he retired. For many decades he was considered the leading graptolite specialist in the USA.
In 1890 he married Elizabeth Heitzmann.
Honors
In 1912 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In 1928 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences .
Web links
- Biography at the National Academy of Sciences by John Rodgers (PDF; 800 kB; English)
References and comments
- ↑ New Yearbook for Geology, Mineralogy, etc., Beilagen-Volume V, 1887, pp. 641–676
- ↑ member entry of Rudolf Rüdemann at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed November 24, 2015.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ruedemann, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American paleontologist of German origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Georgenthal |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 18, 1956 |