Ulrich Jux

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Ulrich Jux (2013)

Ulrich Jux (born April 2, 1929 in Hoffnungsthal ; † April 2, 2017 in Bergisch Gladbach ) was a German geologist and paleontologist . Until his retirement he was a professor at the University of Cologne .

education

After graduating from high school, he studied natural sciences with geology as a major at the University of Cologne from March 1950 . In the summer semester of 1952 he was enrolled at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich for the subject of paleontology . From October 1952 to May 1953 he studied at the Fouad University in Cairo . He returned to Cologne for the summer semester of 1953 and in the same year submitted his dissertation on the geology of the chalk area of Abu Roasch near Cairo ( Egypt ) to obtain a doctorate . His doctoral supervisor was Georg Knetsch . Jux had completed the geosciences degree in the record time of eight semesters including a doctorate . He himself said that such a short period of study is no longer possible today because the geosciences have experienced an expansion that has never been known before since 1960. 1958 followed his habilitation thesis under Martin Schwarzbach on the Devonian reefs in the Rhenish Slate Mountains .

Life

From 1954 to 1959 he was a research assistant at the Geological Institute of the University of Cologne. During this time he began geoscientific research into his closer home, namely the Lower Rhine Bay and the Rhenish Slate Mountains . He never stopped doing this research in his whole life.

In 1959, Jux had the opportunity to do a two-year research project at the School of Geoscience at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge , Louisiana, through a grant from the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC . Here he dealt with micropalaeontology , an important science for the petroleum industry . On April 22nd, 1961 he was appointed associate professor and head of the newly founded palaeontological department at the Geological Institute of the University of Cologne. In 1968 he took over a visiting professorship in Afghanistan . After returning to Cologne on May 26, 1972, he was appointed full professor . In the 1980s and 1990s in particular, he undertook several field studies, for example in Nigeria , Egypt and Greece . To this day, however, he has never stopped doing research in the Paffrath Kalkmulde .

Jux was chairman of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg eV for many years. Since 2011 he was a widower and lived in Bergisch Gladbach . Jux had a son and a daughter. He died on his 88th birthday and was buried in the Quirlsberg Evangelical Cemetery.

Awards

  • Rhineland thaler 1983
  • Honorary chairman of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg eV

Works

The bibliography from 1954 to 1989 includes a total of 117 works. These are only geoscientific publications with the exception of book reviews. The books published in the catalog of the German National Library and other publications available as books or brochures are listed below.

  • On the geology of the chalk area of ​​Abu Roasch near Cairo (Egypt) , Cologne, 1953
  • In cooperation with Martin Schwarzbach: Geological walks in and around Cologne , Kölner Geologische Hefte, Ed. Geological Institute of the University of Cologne, No. 4, Cologne 1955
  • Gotland's reefs and their adjoining sedimentation spaces, Almquist & Wiksell Verlag, Stockholm 1957
  • Age and origin of the Triassic deposits and their ore deposits on the Rhenish Slate Mountains, new vertebrate remains and the Chirotherium problem in Hess. State Office for Soil Research, Wiesbaden 1958
  • About the structure and age structure of the Rhenish lignite basin Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1958
  • On the geology of the Vopnafjord area in northeast Iceland , Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1960
  • On the stratigraphic structure of the Devonian profile of Bergisch Gladbach (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge) , Decheniana vol. 117, issue 1/2, Bonn 1964
  • Bibliography on the geology and palaeontology of the Bergisch Gladbach-Bensberger area 1775-1977 , special publication by the Geological Institute of the University of Cologne, Volume 32, Cologne 1977
  • Explanations for sheet 5009 Overath , published by Geological State Office North Rhine-Westphalia, Krefeld 1982
  • Geological map of North Rhine-Westphalia / 5009. Overath 1982
  • Geological map of North Rhine-Westphalia / 5010. Engelskirchen , 1983
  • In collaboration with his wife Herta Jux: In the shadow of the big city, aerial warfare, artillery fire and occupation of Bergisch Gladbach , Joh. Heider Verlag GmbH, Bergisch Gladbach 2002, ISBN 3-87314-380-1
  • When the stone carvers in Lindlar established their guild and broke the marble , Association of Friends and Supporters of the Bergisches Freilichtmuseum, Lindlar 2007

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c City Archives Bergisch Gladbach, N 16 Prof. Dr. Ulrich Jux accessed on January 14, 2013
  2. ↑ a b c d Eugen Karl Kempf: Festschrift Ulrich Jux , Geological Institute of the University of Cologne, special publication No. 70, Cologne 1993, ISSN  0069-5874
  3. ^ Homepage of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg eV, accessed on January 14, 2013
  4. ↑ Ulrich Jux's memorial page. Accessed May 31, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Even as a scientist, he always remained connected to his homeland, accessed on January 14, 2013

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personal data
SURNAME Jux, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Hope valley
DATE OF DEATH 2nd April 2017
Place of death Bergisch Gladbach