Siegmund Prey
Siegmund Prey (born April 3, 1912 in Hötting , Innsbruck , † March 12, 1992 ) was an Austrian geologist .
Siegmund Prey was the son of the professor of astronomy Adalbert Johann Prey . Prey attended school in Innsbruck and graduated from the Humanistic Gymnasium in Prague in 1930. From 1930 he studied geology, mineralogy, palaeontology and petrography in Vienna, where he received his doctorate with Franz Eduard Suess with distinction in 1937 (on the question of the appearance of the Dent Blanche ceiling in the Sonnblick group , Hohe Tauern).
In 1937/38 he was an external member of the Federal Geological Institute and was entrusted with mapping tasks. During World War II he was involved in motorway work and as a military geologist in the Balkans. In 1947 he became an employee of the Federal Geological Institute, where he came across his future main area of work, the flysch zone , while mapping in the foothills of the Alps .
He also turned to micropalaeontology. He was involved in the geological mapping of many parts of Austria, including in the 1950s in the Carnic Alps (with Franz Kahler ), in the Karawanken and the Hohe Tauern and particularly intensively with the geology of the flysch zone (such as Pernecker Kogel near Kirchdorf an der Krems , Flysch window from Windischgarsten , in the Vienna Woods ). In 1977 he retired. He made contributions to the work Bau und Bild Österreichs published by the Federal Geological Institute in 1980 .
In 1969 he became a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 1975 he received the Cross of Honor for Science and Art, First Class . In 1967/68 he was chairman and later honorary member of the Austrian Geological Society, whose Eduard Sueß commemorative coin he received in 1990.
literature
- Helmut Flügel : Siegmund Prey. In: Austrian Academy of Sciences. Almanach 1991/92, 142nd year, Vienna 1993, pp. 433-440.
Web links
- Literature by and about Siegmund Prey in the catalog of the German National Library
- Obituary by Wolfgang Schnabel in the Mitt. Österr.Geolog. Ges., Volume 86, 1993, pdf
- Obituary in the yearbook of the Geolog. Federal Agency of Rudolf Oberhauser, pdf
Individual evidence
- ↑ Together with Benno Plöchinger (1917–2006) he wrote the volume Wienerwald in the Geological Guides Collection at Borntraeger in 1974
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Prey, Siegmund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hötting |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 12, 1992 |