William van Leckwijck
William van Leckwijck (born November 16, 1902 in Antwerp , † June 19, 1975 ibid., Wilryck district ) was a Belgian geologist.
Life
Van Leckwijck went to England with his family at the beginning of the First World War , where he attended a school in Bristol . In 1926 he graduated as a mining engineer in Liège and then undertook geological field studies, particularly in coal fields in Canada, England and Scotland. In the 1930s, he made a geological map of the eastern half of the northern Atlas Mountains . and conducted research in Greece (Crete, Chios, minerals on Lesbos), Bulgaria (iron and manganese deposits), Finland (iron ore deposits), France, Italy (asbestos), Tunisia (various ore deposits).
During the Second World War , he worked for the Belgian prospecting company Société Ougrée Maribaye and also studied paleontology at the University of Liège .
After the Second World War, he became the director of a Belgian state research company on coalology (Association pour l'Étude de la Paléontologie et Stratigraphie Houillère). In 1964 he succeeded Theodor Sorgenfrei (1915–1972) General Secretary of the International Union of Geological Sciences and in the same year professor of paleontology at the Catholic University of Leuven , where he set up a laboratory for micropaleontology.
In 1958 he became a member of the Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten , whose Prijs Baron van Erborn he received in 1956. In 1964 he received the Waterschoot van der Gracht Medal from the Dutch Geological Society. He was an honorary doctor of the Witwatersrand University , the University of Southampton and an honorary member of the Lorraine Academy of Sciences and the Swedish Geological Society.
In 1968 he received the Leopold von Buch badge .
He spoke fluent Flemish, French, English, Spanish, German and Arabic and was considered an expert on the Koran . He also played the violin well.
Individual evidence
- ↑ also Vereniging voor de Study van de Paleontologie en de Stratigrafie van de Steenkoolformaties
- ↑ also Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences
- ↑ Named after the geologist Willem van Waterschoot van der Gracht (1873–1943).
- ↑ Named after the geologist Leopold von Buch (1774–1853).
Web links
- Article in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography by JPCO Bouckaert
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leckwijck, William van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Antwerp |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 19, 1975 |
| Place of death | Wilryck |