Rudolf Staub

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Rudolf Staub (born January 19, 1890 in Glarus ; † June 25, 1961 in Fex, Engadin ) was a Swiss geologist who was particularly concerned with the tectonics of the Alps .

biography

Staub graduated from the Trogen Cantonal School in 1908 and studied engineering at the ETH Zurich before moving to geology at the University of Zurich . There he heard lectures from Albert Heim and Jakob Oberholzer and received his doctorate from J. Grubenmann ( on granitic and monzonitic rocks in the western Bernina region, a contribution to knowledge of rock metamorphosis ). He was financially independent and was able to devote himself entirely to geological research. During the First World War he was a military geologist and geologically mapped the Val Bregaglia, among other things . In 1926 he became a private lecturer at the ETH Zurich and in 1928 a full professor of geology, both at the ETH and at the University of Zurich, and director of the geological institutes at both universities, which he remained until his retirement. During the Second World War, he headed the geological service of the Swiss Army. From 1942 to 1944 he was Dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Zurich. In 1957 he retired and was honorary professor at the University of Zurich.

Staub was a geological consultant for dam construction in Switzerland. He was a supporter of the continental drift theory of Alfred Wegener , and identifying resulting tectonic guidelines was one of his main concerns. In 1958 he received the Eduard Sueß commemorative coin and became an honorary member of the Austrian Geological Society. He was a member of the Swiss Society of Natural Sciences, the Geological Society of London , the Italian, Belgian and French Geological Societies (in the latter he was Vice-President). He was a member of the Natural Research Society Graubünden and on the board of the Natural Research Society Zurich.

Fonts

  • The construction of the Alps, contributions to geolog. Map of Switzerland, New Series, Volume 52, Bern 1924
  • Mechanisms of movement of the earth, Borntraeger 1928
  • Fundamentals and problems of alpine morphology, memorandum Schweizer Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Volume 69, 1934, pp. 1–183
  • Geological map of the Bernina Group and its surroundings, 1946 (1: 50,000)
  • Considerations on the construction of the Southern Alps, Eclogae geol. Helv., Vol. 42, 1949, pp. 215-408
  • About the relationship between the Alps and the Apennines and the shaping of Europe's Alpine guidelines, Eclogae geol. Helv., Vol. 44, 1951, pp. 21-130
  • The construction of the Glarus Alps and its fundamental importance for Alpine geology, Tschudi, Glarus 1954

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Published in investigations in the western Bernina region , quarterly journal Naturf. Ges. Zurich, Volume 60, 1915, pp. 55–336
personal data
SURNAME Dust, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss geologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Glarus
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1961
Place of death Fex