Wilhelm Dames

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Wilhelm Dames

Wilhelm Barnim Dames (born June 9, 1843 in Stolp , † December 22, 1898 in Berlin ) was a German paleontologist and geologist .

Life

The father, Louis Dames, was a judge of appeals in Breslau. Wilhelm Dames attended the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium there from 1858 . After graduating from high school in 1864, he studied at the universities in Berlin and with Ferdinand von Roemer in Breslau , where he also received his doctorate in 1868 . In 1871 Dames was assistant at the Museum of Geology and Paleontology at the University of Berlin (today: Museum of Natural History (Berlin) ). After his habilitation in 1874, he became an associate professor at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin in 1878 . In 1877 he married the daughter of the Estonian baron Robert v. Great ( ADB Vol. 38, pp. 416-421 ). And in 1891 Wilhelm Dames was appointed full professor of geology and paleontology to succeed Heinrich Ernst Beyrich .

Wilhelm Dames died in Berlin in 1898 at the age of 55 and was buried in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Schöneberg . The grave is preserved.

Services

In 1881, 1884 and 1890 Dames visited Sweden . He wrote various treatises about the scientific knowledge he gained there, including Geological Travel Notes from Sweden (1881). Together with Emanuel Kayser, professor of paleontology and geology at the University of Marburg , he published the periodical Paläontologische Abhandlungen from 1881 onwards . The topics of his publications were mainly fossil vertebrates, Ice Age deposits in the north German plain and their debris as well as studies on trilobites and echinids ( sea ​​urchins ). They appeared in the journal of the German Geological Society , as treatises and special reports of the Prussian Academy of Sciences , Berlin, of which he had been a member since 1892, and in the New Yearbook for Mineralogy .

The name Wilhelm (Barnim) Dames can be found again and again in paleontological literature, especially in connection with the ancient bird Archeopteryx . The specimen he describes is called Archeopteryx siemensi because Dames was able to induce the physicist Werner von Siemens to finance the rare fossil from the Solnhofen slate for the Museum of Natural History at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Dames was the first German geologist to support Otto Martin Torell's inland ice theory . He also made a special contribution as director of the Geological Museum, Berlin.

From 1882 to 1897 he was editor of the paleontological treatises with Emanuel Kayser .

Wilhelm Dames' private library was bought by the university library of Berlin's Humboldt University in 1899, one year after his untimely death.

Fonts

  • About the Devonian deposits occurring in the area of Freiburg in Silesia , Breslau 1868
  • About Archeopteryx. Berlin 1884
  • The ganoids of the German Muschelkalk. Paleontological Treatises. Edited by W. Dames and E. Kayser, Volume 4, no. 2, 50 p., 7 plates, printed and published by Georg Reimer, Berlin 1888
  • Anarosaurus pumilio nov. gen. nov. sp. Journal of the German Geological Society, XLII, 74 - 85, panel I, Berlin 1890
  • About zeuglodonts from Egypt and the relations of the archaeocetes to the other cetaceans , Jena 1894
  • The glacial formations of the north German plain , Berlin 1886
  • About the sequence of layers of the Silurian formations in Gotland and their relationship to the Upper Silurian sediment in northern Germany , Berlin 1890
  • About bird remains from the Limhamn Saltholm limestone near Malmö , Stockholm 1890
  • The Chelonians of the North German Tertiary Formations , Jena 1894
  • Commemorative speech for Ernst Beyrich , Berlin 1899

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 748.
personal data
SURNAME Dames, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dames, Wilhelm Barnim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Stumble
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1898
Place of death Berlin