Wolfgang Struve (paleontologist)

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Wolfgang Struve (born December 24, 1924 in Kassel ; † April 19, 1997 ) was a German paleontologist . He was a senior employee at the Senckenberg Nature Museum and dealt in particular with trilobites , brachiopods and the biostratigraphy of the Devonian region, especially the Eifel .

Struve was the son of a chief customs secretary. During the Second World War he came to the United States as a US captivity soldier. After his release in 1946, he studied geology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , where he graduated in 1950 and received his doctorate in 1951 under Rudolf Richter ( On the geology of the eastern part of the Hillesheimer Mulde (Central Devonian of the Eifel) ). He then went to the Senckenberg Museum, which he had helped to rebuild as a volunteer from 1949 and where he was Richter’s assistant. In 1956 he became curator and edited the magazine Senckenbergiana lethaea with Richter and after his death in 1957 as chief editor . From 1959 until his retirement in 1989 he headed the geological department at the Senckenberg Museum.

He dealt in particular with the (Central) Devonian of the Eifel (and there the Hillesheimer Kalkmulde ) and especially its brachiopods, with which he dealt particularly intensively in the 1960s, and trilobites (also corals). Already in his diploma thesis and dissertation, he mapped the area of Hillesheim (Eifel) .

He was both an honorary and a permanent member of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society. In 1988 he received the Cretzschmar Medal and in 1995 the Alexander von Humboldt Memorial Prize for an essay on a trilobite genus from Morocco. He was a member of the Paleontological Society and a member of the national and international sub-commission on Devonian stratigraphy. Its fine stratigraphy was later the basis for transferring it to other areas, although today it is mostly assigned to conodonts (represented on Senckenberg by Willi Ziegler and Karsten Weddige ).

In 1982 he identified a great gap in the Middle Devon in the fossil record.

Fonts

  • with E.-E. Hotz, W. Kräusel: The Eifel-Mulden von Hillesheim and Ahrdorf , supplements to the Geological Yearbook (State Office for Soil Research Hanover), Volume 17, 1955, pp. 45-192, with geolog. Map 1: 25,000.
  • The Eifelian within the Devonian frame: history, boundaries, definitions , Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Volume 55, 1982, pp. 401-432
  • with R. Werner, K. Vogel: Eifel Excursion Guidebook , Frankfurt 1980

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Contributions to the knowledge of the Phacopina (Trilobita), 18: Die Riesen-Phacopiden from the Maïder, SE-Morockanische Prä-Sahara , Senckenbergiana lethaea, Volume 75, 1995, pp. 77–129
  2. ↑ Struve: The great gap in the record of marine Middle Devonian , in W. Ziegler, R. Werner (Ed.): On Devonian Stratigraphy and Palaeontology of the Ardenno-Rhenish Mountains and related Devonian Matters , Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Volume 55, 1982, pp. 433-447
personal data
SURNAME Struve, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1997