Serge von Bubnoff

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Serge von Bubnoff, approx. 1940–1945

Sergius Nikolayevich of Bubnoff (* 15. July 1888 in Saint Petersburg , † 16 November 1957 in Berlin ) was a geologist and Geotektoniker with Baltic German origin, after the end of World War II contributed significantly to the reconstruction of geological research in eastern Germany. From 1922 he worked as a professor at the University of Breslau , from 1929 at the University of Greifswald and from 1950 at the Humboldt University in Berlin . The Bubnoff unit is named after him as a unit of measurement for the speed of geological processes.

Life

Serge von Bubnoff was born in Saint Petersburg in 1888 . After graduating from high school in Saint Petersburg, the family moved to Heidelberg in 1906 . Due to a congenital hearing loss, he was exempted from military service. He studied to 1910 Geology at the University of Freiburg , where he in 1912 with a thesis on the tectonics of Dinkel mountains in Basel doctorate was. He then worked at the Freiburg University and at the Freiburg- based Baden Geological State Institute . In 1914 he moved to the University of Heidelberg .

With a thesis on the Hercynian fractures in the Black Forest , Serge von Bubnoff completed his habilitation in 1921 at the University of Breslau , where he was also appointed associate professor a year later. In 1929 he accepted a call to the University of Greifswald , where he was professor and director of the Geological - Palaeontological Institute. After the end of the Second World War and the establishment of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), Bubnoff became professor and director at the Geological-Paleontological Institute of the Humboldt University in Berlin in 1950 . In addition, from 1950 to 1957 he headed the Geotectonic Institute of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin .

Serge von Bubnoff died in Berlin in 1957 at the age of 69 as a result of a heart attack and was buried in the cemetery of the Evangelical Brethren in Niesky . His estate is in the archive of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences .

family

Serge von Bubnoff was the youngest son of the Russian doctor Nikolai Dementjewitsch von Bubnoff, who died a year later at the age of 52, and the German merchant's daughter Marie Henriette nee. Türstig. Due to his family background, he was able to speak both Russian and German as his mother tongue .

His father worked as regimental doctor and personal physician to Prince Alexander von Oldenburg , his mother as a partner in his sister Princess Therese. Eight years older brother Nikolai Nikolajewitsch von Bubnoff taught philosophy at the University of Heidelberg .

Serge von Bubnoff was married and the father of two daughters.

Scientific work

Serge von Bubnoff's research focused on general, regional and historical geology , the geology of Europe as well as geomorphology and reservoir science . He pioneered the cycle theory of mountain formation and was one of the most renowned German geologists in the first half of the 20th century.

In August 1912, Serge von Bubnoff was one of the 34 founding members of the Paleontological Society . After the Second World War, he made a significant contribution to the reconstruction of geological research in East Germany.

Awards

Serge von Bubnoff was from 1935 a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and from 1941 a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and from 1949 a full member of its successor institution, the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . In 1951 he was also accepted as a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . He also received the National Prize of the GDR in 1953 and 1955 and the Gustav Steinmann Medal of the Geological Association in 1954 . The Technical University of Hanover awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1956 . In 1948 he received the Leopold von Buch badge .

In the year after his death, the Geological Society of the GDR, which had already made him honorary chairman in 1954, donated the Serge von Bubnoff Medal . This was taken over by the German Society for Geosciences and is awarded for an “outstanding complete work in the national or international geoscientific field”.

In honor of Serge von Bubnoff, the Bubnoff unit (Bub) was named after him as a measure of the speed of sedimentation . One boy (B) corresponds to one millimeter per 1000 years or one meter per million years. He is also the namesake for the Bubnoffnunatakker in the Antarctic.

Fonts

  • The Hercynian fractures in the Black Forest, their relationship to carbonic folding and their posthumanity , Stuttgart, Schweizerbart 1921, (Phil. Hab.-Schr.), Also as a special print in: New Yearbook for Mineralogy , Supplement Volume 45.
  • Germany's coal fields. An overview for geologists, miners and economists. Stuttgart 1926
  • Basic Problems of Geology, an introduction to geological reasoning. Berlin 1931
  • Beginner's Guide to Invertebrate Palaeontology Tables. Greifswald 1935
  • History and construction of German soil. Berlin 1936
  • Introduction to the history of the earth. First part: Requirements - primeval times - ancient times. Halle an der Saale 1941
  • Introduction to the history of the earth. Second part: Middle Ages - Modern Times - Synthesis. Halle on the Saale in 1949
  • Overview of the geology of East Mecklenburg (Western Pomerania) and its border areas. Berlin 1949
  • Fennosarmatia. Geological analysis of the European core area. Berlin 1952

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Palaeontological Journal 1, Issue 1, March 1914
personal data
SURNAME Bubnoff, Serge von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bubnoff, Sergius Nikolajewitsch von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian geologist and geotectonist
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1957
Place of death Berlin