Theodor Plieninger (paleontologist)

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Wilhelm Heinrich Theodor Plieninger (born November 17, 1795 in Stuttgart ; † April 26, 1879 there ) was a German paleontologist and scientist.

Life

Plieninger studied mathematics, theology and natural sciences at the University of Tübingen , was initially at the Württemberg Church and from 1823 to 1838 teacher (professor) at the Katharinenstift in Stuttgart. In 1832 he also became scientific secretary of the Central Office of the Agricultural Association and was responsible for its collection. Under his direction it was expanded from zoology and botany to include fossils . In 1848 the Centralstelle was dissolved. In 1850 it was taken over by what would later become the Society for Natural History (then the Association for Natural History), of which Plieninger was one of the founding members.

In 1845 Theodor Plieninger was accepted into the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . His academic nickname was Jakob Cammerer . He was a member of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors . In 1858 he became a member of the statistical-topographical bureau with the title senior teacher and he was also the secret secretary of Queen Pauline of Württemberg from 1862 to 1873 . As early as 1845 he became a member of the Stuttgart Freemason Lodge to the three cedars .

Plieninger described the first dinosaur finds in Württemberg , found in 1844 in the middle Keuper of Degerloch by the cigarette manufacturer Gottlieb Reiniger (1803–1868). He described it as Belodon in 1857 (although he mixed up remains of plateosaurs ), Friedrich von Huene called it Gresslyosaurus plieningeri in 1905 in honor of Plieninger (a noun dubium ). Today they are assigned to the plateosaurs. The fossil referred to by Plieninger (1846) first Smilodon, then Zanclodon ( Zanclodon laevis ) was also previously assigned to the plateosaurs, but Rainer Schoch 2011 to the Archosauriformes.

He should not be confused with the chemical industrialist Theodor Plieninger (1856–1930).

Fonts

  • with Hermann von Meyer : Contributions to the paleontology of Württemberg, containing the fossil vertebrate remains from the Triassic formations with special consideration for the Keuper's labyrinthodonts. Stuttgart: Schweitzerbart 1844
  • Annual meteorological reports. 1825 to 1864
  • History of the patriotic natural history of Württemberg. 1845
  • Scientific description of Stuttgart. 1834
  • About inexpedient pursuit of some animals. 1832
  • About the cockchafer. 1838
  • About cheap foods at the time of the Theuration. 1847

literature

  • Obituary by W. Gmelin, Leopoldina 15, 1879, pp. 165–167

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JDF Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 272
  2. ↑ Members of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors 1857
  3. ↑ Plateosaurus, Fossil Works
  4. ↑ Zanclodon laevis, Fossil Works
personal data
SURNAME Plieninger, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plieninger, Wilhelm Heinrich Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist and scientist
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1879
Place of death Stuttgart