Werner Zeil
Werner Zeil (born November 19, 1919 in Darmstadt ; † October 25, 2003 ) was a German geologist .
Life
Werner Zeil was born as the son of the architect Karl Zeil and his wife Margret, b. Rathgeber, born. He studied philosophy and geology at the Universities of Göttingen and Munich . In 1948 he obtained a diploma in geology, in 1951 he received his doctorate. In 1954 he completed his habilitation in Munich. From 1954 he taught as a private lecturer at the University of Munich. In 1956 he was a visiting researcher at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago de Chile, and from 1957/58 he was a professor at the University of Heidelberg . In 1960 the University of Munich appointed him an extraordinary professor . In the same year Zeil was appointed full professor and institute director at the Technical University of Berlin . In 1985 he retired.
From 1958 to 1961 he was also secretary of the Geological Association and, since 1961, of the German Geological Society .
Zeil was the author of over 70 magazine articles. He worked on the outline of the geology of Roland Brinkmann and wrote monographs about the geology of Chile (1964) and on the geology of South America (1986).
Werner Zeil had been with Ursula, b. Sommer, married and had three children with her, including today's Bavarian politician Martin Zeil .
Fonts (selection)
- Geology of chile. Bornträger, Berlin 1964.
- South America (= geology of the earth. Vol. 1). Enke, Stuttgart 1986.
literature
- Heinrich Bahlburg: Prof. Dr. Werner Zeil. In: International Journal of Earth Sciences . Vol. 93 (2004), H. 3, p. 474, doi: 10.1007 / s00531-004-0393-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Werner Zeil in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? 15th edition. Berlin 1967, p. 2239 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zeil, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 25, 2003 |