Rudolf Wedekind (paleontologist)

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Rudolf Wedekind (born March 29, 1883 in Linden ; † January 24, 1961 in Hanover ) was a paleontologist .

Life

His parents were the farmer Friederich Wedekind and Luise, geb. Stump. The father had a house built by Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves in Hanover at Jägerstraße 12A demolished and rebuilt in 1883 at Limmerbrunnen 11.

Rudolf Wedekind attended the Kaiserin-Auguste-Victoria-Gymnasium in Linden and studied from Easter 1902. In 1908 he wrote The Cephalopod Fauna of the Upper Upper Devon on the Enkeberge . In April 1915 he became a scientific assistant and on May 4, 1915, deputy director of the Geological Institute of the University of Göttingen . On October 1, 1917, he was appointed full professor in Marburg, where he was professor of geology and paleontology from 1922-45. Karl Tripp worked for him there .

In 1930 he analyzed Gotland coral reefs . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . From 1936 he turned to micropalaeontology. Since he almost never took part in conferences, most of his colleagues hardly knew him personally.

In 1932 he and Margarete owned the Limmerbrunnen Kurhaus in Hanover, with Margarete running the sulfur bath.

Otto Heinrich Schindewolf (his assistant around 1920) and Herta Schmidt were among his students .

Fonts

  • About the basics and methods of biostratigraphy . Borntraeger, Berlin 1916 Archives

literature

  • OH Schindewolf: Rudolf Wedekind 1883–1961 ; In Paläontologische Zeitschrift , Volume 35, Numbers 3–4, 242–247, doi : 10.1007 / BF02987065

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  1. ↑ Hannover: Reconstruction and Destruction, p. 98
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lebensraum-linden.de
personal data
SURNAME Wedekind, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Linden (Hanover)
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1961
Place of death Hanover