Wolfgang Soergel (paleontologist)

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Johannes Wolfgang Adolf Werner Soergel (born January 28, 1887 in Weimar , † July 26, 1946 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German geologist and paleontologist.

Life

After graduating from high school in Weimar, Wolfgang Soergel studied geology from 1907 at the University of Greifswald (among others with Otto Jaekel ) and at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , where he received his doctorate summa cum laude in 1910 with Wilhelm Deecke . He then worked as an assistant in Freiburg and completed his habilitation in 1916 with Josef Felix Pompeckj at the University of Tübingen (Loss, Ice Ages and Paleolithic Cultures, 1919), where he became an associate professor in 1919 (inaugural lecture The Permanence of Continents and Oceans ). In 1926 he succeeded Hans Cloos as professor at the University of Breslau and in 1931 he succeeded Deecke as professor of geology and paleontology in Freiburg, where he remained until his death. His successor in Freiburg was Max Pfannenstiel .

Among other things, he dealt with the stratigraphy of the Ice Age and recognized the importance of periglacial deposits (loess, gravel terraces), which he then examined in Thuringia (on the Ilm ) in 1924 and differentiated 11 cold phases. In 1925 he correlated this with the radiation curves of Milutin Milanković .

He also dealt with the reconstruction of the Chirotherium causer.

In August 1912 he was one of the 34 founding members of the Paleontological Society , became a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences in 1931 and a member of the Leopoldina in 1927 .

He had been married since 1926.

The main building of the Senckenberg Research Institute for Quaternary Paleontology in Weimar is named in his honor.

Fonts

  • Loess, ice ages and palaeolithic cultures, Jena: G. Fischer 1919
  • The hunt of yore, Jena 1922
  • Diluvial river shifts and crust movements, Berlin 1923 Archives
  • The Ice Age, Jena 1938
  • The tracks of Chirotheria, Jena 1925

literature

  • Kurt Sauer: Soergel, Johannes Wolfgang Adolf Werner , in: Bernd Ottnad (Hrsg.): Badische Biographien . New series, volume 1. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-17-007118-1 , pp. 250-252
  • Eugen Seibold: Ice Age and Radiation Curve. Wolfgang Soergel (1887–1946) . In: Christoph Rüchardt (Ed.): 550 years of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. Volume 4. Pioneering scientific and medical research . Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-495-48254-4 , pp. 282-285
  • Heinz Tobien : Obituary in annual reports and communications of the Upper Rhine Geological Association, 32, 1950, 134–144, online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to Tobien, obituary in the Middle Upper Rhine. Geolog. Association, 1950
  2. ^ Palaeontological Journal 1, Issue 1, March 1914
  3. ↑ Member entry of Wolfgang Soergel at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 5, 2015.
  4. ↑ Senckenberg, Weimar
personal data
SURNAME Soergel, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Soergel, Johannes Wolfgang Adolf Werner (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1946
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau