Walter Steiner (geologist)

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Walter Steiner (born June 12, 1935 in Böhmisch Leipa , Czechoslovakia ; † December 5, 2012 in Jena ) was a German geologist, paleontologist and museum director.

Steiner fled from Bohemia to Germany in 1945 and from 1949 attended high school in Halle (Saale) . After graduating from high school in 1953, he studied geology and paleontology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and from 1958 was a geologist at the State Geological Commission in Halle (Saale), Blankenburg and Stendal . From 1960 he was initially an assistant at the Weimar University of Architecture and Construction , where he received his doctorate in 1964, became a senior assistant and research associate, and completed his habilitation in 1972 . From 1991 until his retirement in 2000 he was director of the Weimar City Museum, the German Bee Museum in Oberweimar and the art gallery on Goetheplatz. In addition, from 1992 he was honorary professor for geology at the Bauhaus University Weimar.

In addition to geological work, he also published on the local history and art history of Weimar. He was co-editor of Weimar. Lexicon on city history .

Fonts

  • with PG Brosin : Siles and Rotliegende north of the Thuringian Forest. - In: Hoppe, W./Seidel, G. (Ed.): Geology of Thuringia . Pp. 449-515; Gotha-Leipzig (1974).
  • with Otfried Wagenbreth : Geological Forays. Landscape and geological history between Cape Arkona and Fichtelberg, Leipzig 1982, 1985, 1989, 1990
  • The travertine from Ehringsdorf and its fossil finds, Wittenberg 1979 and 1981
  • On the Pamir glaciers. A geological adventure, Leipzig 1982, 1988
  • The heyday of the dinosaurs, Leipzig, Jena, Berlin, Hanover 1986, 1990
  • Europe in primeval times, Munich 1992 a. 1993
  • with G. Michalski: The Weimar Hall. History of construction and impact, Weimar 1994
  • The " Parkhöhle " in Weimar, Weimar 1996
  • with others: Weimar 1945. A historical protocol, Weimar 1997
  • with U. Kühn-Stillmark: Friedrich Justin Bertuch . A life in classic Weimar between culture and commerce, Cologne-Weimar-Vienna 2001

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