Viktor Hohenstein
Viktor Hohenstein , also Victor, (born March 6, 1888 in Weil der Stadt ; † September 16, 1974 ibid) was a German paleontologist, geologist and soil scientist.
Hohenstein's father had a tannery and a leather wholesaler in Weil der Stadt, where Hohenstein went to school. In 1906 he passed the final examination at the Königliche Realanstalt in Esslingen am Neckar (today Schelztor-Gymnasium) and studied geology and palaeontology with Ernst Koken at the University of Tübingen from 1908 to 1911 , where he received his doctorate in 1913 (contributions to the knowledge of the middle shell limestone and the lower Trochite limestone on the eastern edge of the Black Forest). It described a rich flora small mollusks of two chert -Horizonten of shell limestone ( Anisian ). After that he was onNatural History Museum in Berlin and from 1914 to 1919 assistant to Johannes Walther at the University of Halle , where he mainly dealt with soil science work at the newly established Agricultural Institute. From 1921 to 1945 he was back in Berlin as a scientific advisor to the Nitrogen Syndicate. During the war, he lost all of his possessions and had a difficult time immediately after the war. From May 1946 until his retirement in 1950 he worked for the German Fertilizer Center.
After the death of his wife Helene Sarbok, he moved back to his hometown in 1966, where he lived with his sister. He returned to paleontology and undertook research to revise and complete his 1913 study. He also put together a new collection, which, like the unfinished work (he died of kidney failure while working), went to the Geological-Paleontological Institute in Tübingen. Part of his fossil collection also came to the State Museum for Natural History in Stuttgart.
The first descriptions of Microconchus aberrans (HOHENSTEIN, 1913) from the group of microconchida (post squirrel tubes, fossils with spirally rolled tubes made of lamellar calcite skeleton, which appeared from the Ordovician to the middle of the Jurassic and whose systematic classification is open) come from him, among others. , the clams Neoschizodus germanicus (HOHENSTEIN, 1913) and Pseudocorbula plana (HOHENSTEIN, 1913) and the snails Hologyra amabilis (HOHENSTEIN, 1913) and Actaeonina kokeni (HOHENSTEIN, 1913)
From 1910 he was in the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg , from 1914 in the Upper Rhine Geological Association , in the Hallescher Verband for the exploration of Central German mineral resources, in the German Geological Society , the Society for Geography and in the Geological Association .
Fonts
- Contributions to the knowledge of the middle shell limestone and the lower trochitic limestone on the eastern edge of the Black Forest. Preliminary communication. Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, year 1911, pp. 643–656
- Contributions to the knowledge of the middle shell limestone and the lower trochitic limestone on the eastern edge of the Black Forest. Geol. Pal. Abh. NF 12, H. 2, 1913, 100 p., 8 plates.
- Contributions to the paleontology and stratigraphy of the German upper shell limestone. Scientific weekly journal, New Series Volume 17, 1918, pp. 238–240
- The East German Black Earth (Tschernosem) with brief remarks about the East German Brown Earth, boarding school. Mitt. Bodenkunde, Volume 9, 1919, pp. 1–31, 125–178
- The loess and black earth soils of Rheinhessen, annual report Mitt. Oberrhein. Geolog. Association, New Series, Volume 9, 1920, pp. 74-97
literature
- M. Warth: Viktor Hohenstein, in: Annuals of the Society for Natural History in Württemberg, Volume 130, 1975, pp. 390–392
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hohenstein, Viktor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hohenstein, Victor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German paleontologist and geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Because of the city |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 16, 1974 |
| Place of death | Because of the city |