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Wilhelm Heinrich Waagen (2nd standing person from right) and the members of the Geological Survey of India, 1870

Wilhelm Heinrich Waagen (born June 23, 1841 in Munich , † March 24, 1900 in Vienna ) was a German geologist and paleontologist .

family

Wilhelm Heinrich Waagen was born as the son of the painter and writer Carl Waagen (1800–1873), who came from Hamburg and converted to Catholicism, and his wife, the singer Nanette Schechner (1806–1860). The father Carl Waagen was the brother of the art historian Gustav Friedrich Waagen (1794–1868).

His older brother was the ennobled Bavarian Major General Gustav von Waagen (1832–1906), another brother of the painter Adalbert Waagen (1834–1898). Wilhelm Heinrich Waagen married the noble Sophie Freiin von Großschedel, niece of Major General Christian von Großschedel and daughter of the Bavarian officer, Joseph Freiherr von Großschedel and his wife Auguste von Weling . The latter was the child of the ennobled Jewish convert Eduard von Weling (previously Eduard Seligmann) and the granddaughter of the Bavarian court factor Aron Elias von Eichthal (previously Aron Elias Seligmann).

Waagen and his wife had several children, their son Wilhelm (1875–1960) was born in Calcutta . He became a Benedictine Father Hildebrand in the Abbey of Seckau and worked a. a. as pastor of the Traboch parish . The son Lukas Waagen (1877–1959), born in Vienna , also became famous in the geology profession.

Life

Waagen studied in Munich and Zurich, did his doctorate at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and was a lecturer in paleontology there from 1866. In 1864 he received a prize for his work The Jura in Franconia, Swabia and Switzerland . For a year he taught the siblings Prince Arnulf of Bavaria and Therese of Bavaria in natural history. In 1870 Wilhelm Heinrich Waagen went to India as a paleontologist at the Geological Survey of India . The climate there was not conducive to his health, which is why he finally returned to Europe in 1875, after he had married the noble Sophie von Großschedel in 1874 and was thus financially secure. Waagen then taught as a lecturer at the University of Vienna and in 1879 became professor at the German Polytechnic in Prague . He published monographs on the paleontology of the Kachchh (English: Cutch) (1873 to 1876), especially the ammonites of the Jura, and the salt mountains (1879 to 1883) as part of the Palaeontologica Indica series . In Prague, after the death of Joachim Barrande in 1883, he continued his Système Silurien de Boheme and wrote the section Crinoids with J. Jahn . In 1890 he became a professor of paleontology at the University of Vienna. In 1888 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . Carl Emanuel Burckhardt worked with Libra as his assistant.

Together with Edmund Mojsisovics von Mojsvár and Carl Diener, he developed a biostratigraphy of the marine Triassic based on ammonoids . Scales and servants dedicated themselves particularly to the lower Triassic.

In 1888 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

In 1898 he received the Lyell Medal . He was a devout Catholic and religiously engaged throughout his life.

Fonts

  • About the attachment point of the adhesive muscles in the nautilus and the ammonides. Palaeontographica, 17, 185 - 210, plate XXXIX - XL, Cassel 1870
  • Preliminary information on the Triassic deposits in the Salt range (Punjab). Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute Volume XLIII, 1892, Issue 2, 377 - 386, Publishing House of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute, Vienna 1893
  • Salt Range Fossils Vol II. Fossils from the Ceratite Formation. Palaeontologia Indica, Series 13 2 (1): 1--323, Pl. I - XL, 1895
  • with C. Diener: I. Lower Trias (Scythian and Dinaric series). In: E. Mojsisovics, W. Waagen, C. Diener: Draft of a structure of the pelagic sediments of the Triassic system. Meeting reports of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, mathematical and scientific class, 104: 1278–1296, Vienna 1895

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hyacinth Holland:  Waagen, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, p. 780 f.
  2. ↑ Hans Michael Schletterer:  Schechner scales, Nanette . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 654-661.
  3. ^ Hyacinth Holland:  Waagen, Adalbert . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, pp. 778-780.
  4. ↑ PDF document on the Cherbonhof in Gaustadt, with detailed information on the von Weling, von Großschedel and Waagen families ( memento from October 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Walter de Gruyter: Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie , 2008, Volume 10, Page 323
  6. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Wilhelm Waagen
personal data
SURNAME Scales, Wilhelm Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1900
Place of death Vienna