Wilhelm Pabst (paleontologist)

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Wilhelm Pabst (born August 30, 1856 in Gotha , † September 21 or September 22, 1908 in Jena ) was a German paleontologist.

life and work

Pabst was a high school teacher in Gotha . In addition, from 1890 to 1908, as the successor to Otto Burbach, he was curator of the natural history collections at the Gotha Ducal Museum . He had the title of professor.

Orobates pabsti fossil

He played a leading role in the first exploration of the Bromacker fossil deposit in Tambach-Dietharz , in which tracks of tetrapods (primeval dinosaurs ) from the lower Permian (Tambachsandstein, Oberrotliegend) were found. Skeletons were later found there, indicating close relationships with the Permian tetrapod fauna in Texas and the southwestern United States. The site is unique in Europe. One of the skeletons found, found in 1998, was named Orobates pabsti from the Diadectidae family after Pabst in 2004 .

The first finds of ursaur tracks in Tambach came to the attention of the Gotha paleontologist Heinrich Friedrich Schäfer (1839–1930) in 1886 , who acquired them for the Gotha Museum with the curator of the Otto Burbach Museum. Pabst expanded the museum's collection of tracks with his own finds (also beyond Tambach, for example at Friedrichroda ). Some of the finds were sold to other museums and collectors.

On October 29, 1902 ( matriculation number 3153 ) he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Fonts

  • The animal tracks in the red-lying area of ​​Germany . In: Nova Acta Leopoldina, Volume 89, 1908, No. 2, Taf. I - IIIV, pp. 315–481 ( archive )

literature

  • Thomas Martens: Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Pabst (1856–1908) - co-founder of the tracking of fossil vertebrates. Dep. Ber. Museum d. Natur Gotha, (18) 1994: pp. 3-14
  • David S. Berman, Amy C. Henrici, Richard A. Kissel, Stuart S. Sumida and Thomas Martens: A new diadectid (Diadectomorpha), Orobates pabsti , from the Early Permian of Central Germany. In: Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History, No. 35, 2004, pp. 1-36

Web links

References and comments

  1. ^ Orobates pabsti, Museums Thuringia
  2. ^ Member entry by Wilhelm Pabst at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on August 9, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Pabst, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1908 or September 22, 1908
Place of death Jena