Samuel Schaub

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Samuel Schaub (born April 13, 1882 in Basel , † September 22, 1962 ) was a Swiss paleontologist .

Life

Samuel Schaub went to school in Basel with the Abitur in 1899 and then studied at a school for teacher training and the University of Basel with the qualification as a secondary school teacher in 1903. He then went on to study zoology and in 1907, his dissertation contributed to the knowledge of postembryonic development der Ardeiden received his doctorate from Rudolf Burckhardt (1866–1908). Afterwards he was a teacher in Basel at the secondary school for boys, but was also engaged in palaeontology from 1913 and was a volunteer employee of Hans Georg Stehlin (1870-1941) at the Natural History Museum in Basel . Among other things, he dug in the Auvergne ( Senèze) and in the 1950s south of Lyon . From 1922 he was on the commission of the Natural History Museum, was its secretary for many years and temporarily vice-president. In 1943 he took early retirement to devote himself to research and succeeded Stehlin as head of the osteological department of the Natural History Museum, which he remained until 1957.

As a paleontologist, he was a specialist in fossil rodents and their teeth. But he also published about other fossil mammals, especially from Senèze (a former crater lake of the Upper Pliocene at the age of about 2 million years, where a local farmer had been collecting for Stehlin since 1903). Including large mammals such as the Ancylotherium , which belonged to the Chalicotheria , and ratites (the subject of his dissertation was from ornithology).

He had been a member of the Swiss Natural Research Society since 1914 and a founding member of the Swiss Paleontological Society since 1922. From 1941 to 1961 he was editor of the Swiss Paleontological Treatises.

Fonts

  • Contributions to the knowledge of the postembryonic development of the Ardeids . In: Zoological Yearbooks, Dept. for Anatomy and Ontogeny 25, Issue 2 of December 13, 1907, Jena 1908, pp. 305–404, plates 10–11 ( digitized version )
  • with HG Stehlin: Die Trigonodontie der simplizidentaten rodents, Paläontologische Abhandlungen 67, 1951
  • Simplicidentata (= Rodentia), in Jean Piveteau : Traité de Paléontologie, Paris, Part 6, Volume 2, 1954

literature

  • Obituary in negotiation Switzerland. Naturf. Ges., 142, 1962 ( E-Periodica )

References and comments

  1. ↑ finds of Seneze, Naturhist. Museum Basel
personal data
SURNAME Schaub, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1962