Werner Quenstedt

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Werner Quenstedt (born January 1, 1893 in Munich , † October 25, 1960 ) was a German paleontologist and geologist .

Life

Quenstedt was the grandson of the famous paleontologist Friedrich August Quenstedt , whose biography he wrote. After graduating from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1911 , he first studied medicine, but also geology and paleontology (with Ferdinand Broili and August Rothpletz ) in Munich. During the First World War he volunteered and was active both in the medical service (most recently as a troop doctor in France) and as a field geologist. After the war he completed his medical studies in Munich with a license to practice medicine, but turned to paleontology and received his doctorate in 1922 under Broili. He then worked as an assistant in Königsberg and from 1923 to Josef Felix Pompeckj in Berlin, with whom he completed his habilitation in 1929. In 1935 he became an associate professor and, in 1939, an adjunct professor of paleontology in Berlin. At the end of the war he was in Tyrol (Achenkirch) and received a teaching post in Innsbruck in 1946 and in Munich and Regensburg in 1950. He died of a stroke and is buried in Munich (Nordfriedhof).

In 1925 he married Anne Maria Differing, who was also a granddaughter of Friedrich August Quenstedt and who also worked with him on publications. With her he edited the Fossilium catalogus on hominids (1936) and a bio-bibliographical volume on paleontologists. He was also the editor of the Fossilium catalog from 1931 to 1960. A geological map 1: 100,000 of the Tegernsee comes from Quenstedt. He wrote biographies of geologists and paleontologists for the Neue Deutsche Biographie and dealt with the geology of the Achental and, like his grandfather, with the Jura stratigraphy, although in contrast to this he also included the Jura outside Swabia, in particular the Alpine Jura.

Fonts

  • Adaptation to the burrowing way of life in the history of the Solenomyids and Nuculaceae . Geological and palaeontological treatises, New Series, 18 (1), Jena 1930, pp. 1–119
  • with Anne Quenstedt, Kalman Lambrecht: Palaeontologi- Catalogus bio-bibliographicus, Fossilium Catalogus I, Animalia, pars 72, s'Gravenhage: W. Junk 1938, new edition Arno Press, New York 1978

literature

  • Obituary by G. Mutschlechner, In: Nachrichten der Geologische Bundesanstalt 1961, Issue 1, with a list of publications
  • Helmut Hölder : The diaries of the geologist and paleontologist Werner Quenstedt. In: Baussteine ​​zur Tübinger Universitätsgeschichte 4 (1989), pp. 127-136.
  • Kurt Jaksch: Werner Quenstedt and his Achentaler Ampelsbachprofil (Tyrol) with a contribution to the early development of lamellar lamellae , in: Yearbook of the Federal Geological Institute , Volume 143, Issue 1, 2003, pp. 45–55

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Published in Schwäbische Lebensbilder, Volume 2, Stuttgart 1941, pp. 377–390
  2. ^ Annual report from the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich 1910/11
  3. ↑ Wolf von Engelhardt, Helmut Hölder, Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology at the University of Tübingen, Mohr 1977, p. 127
personal data
SURNAME Quenstedt, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1960