Albert Oppel

Carl Albert Oppel ( born December 19, 1831 in Hohenheim, Stuttgart, † December 22, 1865 in Munich) was a German paleontologist with significant contributions to the study of the geological period of the Jura.

Life and work

Oppel, son of agronomist and Government Council Julius Albert Oppel (1799-1882), studied in 1851 at the University of Tübingen with Friedrich August von Quenstedt and received in 1853 by solving the question of price, " About the middle Lias of Swabia " doctorate. In 1854 and 1855 he went on research trips to the then-known Jurassic sites in France, England, Switzerland and Germany. The results of his research, he presented from 1856 to 1858 in the work of the Jurassic of England, France and the southwest of Germany before.

In 1858 he became a professor of paleontology at the University of Munich in 1861, he was promoted to full professor and in succession by Johann Andreas Wagner for the curator of the Paleontological Museum in Munich. In 1862 he was appointed associate member of the Mathematics and Physics Class of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Since 1862 he was also editor and co-author in the substantiated by the Palaeontological messages.

The law he shared in 36 biostratigraphic " Spots". With this, he introduced term (today Biozone ), Oppel refined the classification levels. The imported by him Jurassic Pliensbachian and Tithonian stages designations are now internationally recognized.

On the moon, the mountains Dorsum Oppel is ( " Oppel - back " ) named after him. 2004 named Günter Schweigert and Alessandro Garassino fossil shrimp genus Albertoppelia from the Tithonian of Eichstätt ( Solnhofen limestone ) to Oppel, whose monograph on the decapods of southwest German Jura is still the most comprehensive work on this topic.

His son was the doctor and histologist Albert Otto Oppel ( 1863-1916 ).

Writings

  • The middle Lias of Swabia. Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart 1853. Google
  • The Jurassic of England, France and southwestern Germany. According to their individual members eingetheilt and compared. Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart from 1856 to 1858. Separately impression of the Württemberg scientific Jahreshefte. 12th - 14th Jg Google
  • Palaeontological Mittheilungen from the museum of the royal. bayer. State. Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart, 1862, Atlas and Text Google Google I. About Jurassic crustaceans
  • II About tracks in the lithographic slate
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