Rudolf Wilckens

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Rudolf Wilckens (born November 1, 1884 in Lahr / Black Forest , † October 5, 1936 ) was a German high school teacher, paleontologist and geologist.

From 1902 Wilckens studied chemistry, mineralogy, botany, zoology and geography in Freiburg im Breisgau, Berlin, Munich, Heidelberg and Greifswald with the first teaching degree in 1911. He was at the Mineralogical-Geological Institute in Greifswald from 1908 to 1911 and received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1908. In 1912 he was at the grammar school in Greifswald and then at the Bismarck School (and at the Oberlyzeum) in Hanover, where he was a senior teacher.

He had been a member of the German Geological Society since 1909, became a member of the Geological Association in 1910, and in August 1912 was one of the 34 founding members of the Paleontological Society . He was also on the board of the Geographical Society in Hanover.

His dissertation on the fossil fauna from the Alpine Triassic of Predazzo is of paleontological importance for the Triassic , as it contains several first descriptions of fossil taxa. Rudolf Wilckens is u. a. (Selection without value) the first description of the coral Montlivaultia salomoni , the brachiopods Rhynchonella viezzenensis, Rhynchonella globula and Terebratula predazzensis , the mussels Avicula waageni and Cassianella transiens , the cephalopod Beyrichites discoides and the shark Acrodus alpinus .

Fonts

  • Paleontological study of triadic fauna from the area around Predazzo in South Tyrol. In: Verh. D. naturhist.-med. Ver. on Heidelberg NF 10, booklet 2, pp. 81-231, plates IV- VII, Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1909
  • Are the half bridges on the Jasmund peninsula to be understood as drumlins? , Hartmann, 1912
  • Contribution to the tectonics of the middle Oglio Valley. In: Journal of the German Geological Society, 63, 1911
  • with Franz Schnass (editor): Geographic source book , volume 1,2, Osterwieck: AW Zickfeldt, several volumes, from 1927

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References and comments

  1. ^ Biographical data, archive database, library for research on the history of education
  2. ^ Membership directory of the German Geological Society v. March 1922
  3. ↑ Geologische Rundschau 1, Engelmann, Leipzig 1910
  4. ^ Palaeontological Journal 1, Issue 1, March 1914
personal data
SURNAME Wilckens, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Lahr / Black Forest
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1936
Place of death Munich