Theodor Ebert (geologist)

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Theodor Ebert

Theodor Ebert (born May 6, 1857 in Kassel ; † September 1, 1899 ) was a German geologist and paleontologist .

Life

Ebert was the son of a pastor and grandson of the Swedish Mountain Council, which ran the Hessian mines. Initially taught at a private school, Ebert went to high school in Kassel and initially wanted to go into mining, but then because he did not feel healthy enough he studied natural sciences and especially geology, mineralogy and paleontology in Marburg (with Adolf von Koenen and Wilhelm Dunker ) , Heidelberg (with Robert Bunsen , Karl Heinrich Rosenbusch and Adolph Knop ) with the teaching degree in Marburg. In 1881 he received his doctorate in Göttingen with von Koenen, who moved there that year (The tertiary deposits in the area around Kassel). In 1883 he became an assistant geologist at the Prussian Geological State Institute (PGLA), where he became a district geologist in 1887 and a regional geologist in 1893. In 1895 he received the title of professor because he had been holding paleontology exercises at the Bergakademie in Berlin since 1886.

At the PGLA he had been in charge of the geological state collection since 1885. He mapped in West Prussia and the Harz region ( Gelliehausen , Waake , Lindau (Eichsfeld) , Osterwieck , Vienenburg ). From the 1880s onwards he was also involved in the evaluation (stratigraphy) of deep boreholes in the Silesian coal field. As a paleontologist, he published, among other things, on the echinoderms of the Oligocene in Germany (with some initial descriptions).

From 1887 to 1898 he was archivist for the German Geological Society .

He was also active in the German colonial movement as chairman of the Berlin department of the Society for German Colonization and, after its merger into the German Colonial Society, in its committee. He was also on the supervisory board of the German-East African Plantation Society . In 1896 he became a member of the Colonial Council .

Since 1884 he was married to Margarethe ten Doornkaat Koolman. In the last years of his life, Ebert had to interrupt his work repeatedly due to illness. Ebert died on September 1, 1899. He left a son and a daughter.

Fonts

  • The Echinids of the North and Central German Oligocene, Abh. Geolog. State Agency 9, 1892
  • Stratigraphic results of the more recent deep boreholes in the Upper Silesian Hard Coal Mountains, Abh. Geolog. State institute 1895
  • About the storage conditions of the Upper Silesian hard coal formation, Z. Deutsche Geolog. Ges. 1891
  • Sketch of the geological conditions in German East Africa , Association for Natural History Kassel, Report 34, 1889

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Published in the journal of the German geological society in 1881. In it he showed that the brown coal deposits in Hesse occur in two horizons, which are separated by marine sands and clays of the Oligocene, which confirmed a conjecture by von Koenen.
  2. ^ Yearbook of the Royal Prussian State Geological Institute and Bergakademie zu Berlin for the year 1899 ; Pages 117–119
personal data
SURNAME Ebert, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1899