Wilhelm Kegel

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Wilhelm Ottmar Kegel (born May 6, 1890 in Breitscheid near Gießen ; † March 15, 1971 in Brazil ) was a German geologist who dealt with regional geology in Germany and Brazil.

Life

Wilhelm Ottmar Kegel was born as the son of the Breitscheid teacher Wilhelm Reinhard Kegel and his wife Bertha Lina Petry.

During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Marburg . Kegel received his doctorate in geography from the University of Göttingen in 1910 ("The size of the shelf surfaces based on a new calculation"). He then worked from 1912 to 1939 at the Prussian Geological State Institute , where he dealt with the Lahn region ( Gießener blanket ) , among other things . Here he continued the work of Johannes Ahlburg , who died early in 1919 .

He lived in Brazil from 1949, where he was professor of geology at the national initiative for the training of geologists CAGE in Rio de Janeiro (Campanha Nacional de Formação de Geólogos) and geologist at the national ministry of mines (Departamento Nacional de Producao Mineral, DPNM). Wilhelm Kegel researched the geology and tectonics of the northeast of Brazil in particular.

Awards

  • 1958: Hans Stille Medal
  • 1965: José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva Prize of the Brazilian Geological Society

Fonts

  • A estrutura geológica do nordeste do Brasil . Rio de Janeiro: Ministério das Minas e Energia, Departamento Nacional da Produção Mineral, Divisão de Geologia e Mineralogia, 1965.
  • Outline of the geology of the Lahnmulde. Explanations of an overview map left by Johannes Ahlburg and profile representation of the Lahnmulde, with 1 overview map 1: 125,000, treatises PGLA, NF, H. 86, 1922

literature

  • Obituary in the news of the German Geological Society, 1971, issue 4, p. 1
  • Obituary in Geological Yearbook (Office for Soil Research Hanover), Volume 89, 1971, p. 13

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 911 No. 1725, p. 16 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 108.
  3. ^ Members of the PGLA , with photo
  4. ↑ Abriß der Geologie der Lahnmulde, Abh. Preuss. Geolog. State Office, 1922. Geology of the Dillmulde , Abh. Preuss. Geolog. State Office 1934
  5. ↑ Barroso, 40 years of CAGE, Portuguese, pdf ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ppegeo.igc.usp.br
  6. ↑ Paleontology of Bacias do Parnaiba, history, Portuguese, with a short biography and photo, pdf
personal data
SURNAME Kegel, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kegel, Wilhelm Ottmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Breitscheid (Hesse)
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1971
Place of death Brazil