Edwin Hennig

Edwin Hennig ( * April 27, 1882 in Berlin, † November 12, 1977 in Tübingen ) was a German paleontologist.

Hennig was one of five children of a merchant, who died when Hennig was ten years old. He studied from 1902 natural sciences, anthropology and philosophy at the Albert -Ludwigs- University of Freiburg, where he received his doctorate in 1906 with Otto Jaekel ( Gyrodas and the organization of Pycnodonten ). After that, he was an assistant to Wilhelm von Branca at the Geological- Palaeontological Institute of the Humboldt University of Berlin, where in 1913 he qualified as a professor and lecturer was. In World War I he was a military geologist. From 1917 he was professor at the University of Tübingen, where he was 1929/1930 Rector and Director of the Geological- Palaeontological Institute. In 1937 he joined the NSDAP. In 1945 he was removed from office and subjected to a de-Nazification process. In 1951, he went into retirement.

Hennig is known as excavators ( under Werner Janensch ) of dinosaurs in the Tendaguru expedition in East Africa from 1909. 1948 he described Australopithecus afarensis finds from East Africa, collected by Ludwig Kohl- Larsen. He wrote several popular science books.

Similar to previously Othenio Abel he was a follower orthogenischer theories of evolution, as Karl Beurlen, who was also his assistant.

Writings

  • Dinosaurs in East Africa. Reconnaissance trip through the East African bush. Lux -Verlag, Murnau 1961
  • -Been worlds. On dinosaur hunting in the East African bush, Albert Müller Verlag 1955
  • On Tendaguru: life and work of a German research expedition to the excavation primeval giant dinosaur in German East Africa, Schweizerbart 1912, Reprint, Nabu Press, 2010
  • Geology of Greater Germany, Enke Verlag 1942
  • The middle Jurassic in hinterland of Dar es Salaam ( German East Africa ), Borntraeger 1924
  • Life of old. Introduction to Versteinerungskunde, Munich, Lehmann 1938
  • Beings and ways of Paleontology; an introduction to the Versteinerungslehre as a science, Borntraeger 1932
  • Become an earthly, Lux -Verlag 1953
  • Of forced expiration and suppleness in organic development, JBCMohr, Tübingen 1929 ( Rector's Address )
  • Paleontological contributions to the theory of evolution, Tuebingen Scientific treatises, JCB Mohr, 1922
  • The scientific picture of the world of the present, breakthrough Publisher 1937
  • Erich Krenkel Geology of Württemberg, together with Hohenzollern, Borntraeger 1923 ( Manual of Geology and Mineral Resources of Germany )
  • The career of the human race, Tübingen, Matthiesen 1950
  • James Cook. Catalogers of the earth, Stuttgart, Scientific Publishing Company 1952
  • Tübingen prehistory and history, Tübingen 1957
  • Zeitgeschichtliche revelations; a contribution to the study of the recent past, Munich, watchman Publisher 1964
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