Thore Gustaf Halle

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Thore Gustaf Gustafsson Halle (born September 25, 1884 in Mullsjö , Skaraborgs län ; † May 12, 1964 ) was a Swedish paleobotanist and geologist. He was director of the Natural History Imperial Museum and headed the palaeobotany there. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " T.Halle ".

As a bryologist he published under T. Gustafson.

Life

From 1903 he studied geology and botany at Uppsala University, graduating in 1906. In the following year he worked for Alfred Gabriel Nathorst in the palaeobotany department of the Reichsmuseum. From 1907 to 1909 he was on a research trip to South America (Falkland Islands, Chile, Argentina, Brazil) under the direction of Carl Skottsberg . In 1911 he received his doctorate in Uppsala (On the Geological Structure and History of the Falkland Islands) and became a lecturer at Stockholm University . In 1916/17 he was on a research trip to China under Johan Gunnar Andersson (although his collections were lost due to shipwreck in 1919, but Halle found a replacement in collaboration with Chinese geologists). In 1918 he became professor and head of palaeobotany at the Reichsmuseum as successor to Nathorst. From 1921 to 1947 he was director of the Reichsmuseum. In 1950 he retired.

He was a bryologist and collected mosses mainly in the Stockholm area and the rest of Sweden. His collection of over 10,000 copies went to the Reichsmuseum.

In 1913 he described Mesozoic plant fossils from Grahamland in Antarctica , collected by Johan Gunnar Andersson on Otto Nordenskjöld's expedition . His Glossopteris finds on the Falkland Islands were the subject of his dissertation in 1911. There he also found Tillite , which indicated ice ages in the Paleozoic .

In 1939 he became Vice Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences , of which he had been a member since 1931. In 1930 he received an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University . In 1923 he became a corresponding member of the Geological Society of London . In 1928 he became a member of the Leopoldina and in 1943 an honorary member ( Honorary Fellow ) of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . The Halle Flat level in Antarctica has been named after him since 1964.

Fonts

  • Some herbaceous Lycopodiaceae of Paleozoic and Mesozoic ages. Arkiv för Botany 7 (5), 1 - 17, 3 plates, Stockholm 1908
  • For knowledge of the Mesozoic Equis Valley of Sweden. Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar Ny Följd, Volume 43, 1, 1 - 56, 9 plates, Uppsala & Stockholm 1908
  • A Gymnosperm with Cordaitean-like leaves from the Rhaetic Beds of Scania. Arkiv för Botany 9 (14), 1-7, 1 plate, Stockholm 1910
  • On the Geological Structure and History of the Falkland Islands, Bulletin of the Geological Institution of University of Uppsala 11, 1911, pp. 115-229 (dissertation, Uppsala)
  • On Quaternary Deposits and Changes of Level in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, 1910
  • The Mesozoic flora of Graham Land, scientific results of the Swedish South Polar Expedition 1901-1903 with the participation of numerous experts 3, Generalstabens litografiska Anstalt. Stockholm 1913, pp. 1–123.
  • Some mesozoic plant-bearing deposits in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego and their floras. Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar Ny Följd, Volume 51, 3, 1 - 1958, 5 plates, Uppsala & Stockholm 1914
  • Lower Devonian plants from RøAGEN in Norway, Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar 57, 1916, pp. 1-46
  • On the sporangia of some Mesozoic ferns. Arkiv för Botany 17 (1), 1-28, plates, Stockholm 1922
  • Palaeozoic Plants from Central Shansi, Palaeontologica Sinica Series A 2 (1), 1927, pp. 1-316
  • The structure of certain fossil spore-bearing organs believed to belong to the Pteridosperms, Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar 12 (6), 1933, pp. 1–103
  • De utdöda växterna, 2 volumes, Nordisk familjeboks förlags AB. Stockholm 1938-1940

literature

  • Rudolf Florin : Thore Gustav Halle on the sixtieth birthday, Palaeontographica 88, 1948, V-IX.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member entry by Thore Halle at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 17, 2015.
  2. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed December 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hall, Thore Gustaf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Halle, Thore Gustaf Gustafsson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish paleobotanist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Mullsjö , Skaraborgs län
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1964