Alfred Eisenack

Alfred Eisenack ( born May 13, 1891 in Altfelde, West Prussia, † April 19, 1982 in Reutlingen, Germany ) was a German paleontologist. He was a pioneer of micropaleontology and palynology. His botanical and mycological author abbreviation is " Eisenack ".

Life

Eisenack went to Elbing to school and studied from 1911 at the University of Jena and from 1913 at the University of Königsberg and began a PhD at Sven Tornquist on the stratigraphy of the Portlandium on Lake Garda, when his studies were interrupted by the First World War. He volunteered and came after the Battle of Lodz in Russian captivity in Chita in Siberia. There he was able to continue form (of Pontoppidan ) at another prisoner of war geologists, but his return was delayed even after the armistice. He had at this time later, good memories, occasionally worked as a chemist in 1920 and returned by ship via Vladivostok to Germany. He first studied further Geology Karl Erich Andrée in Königsberg, but then made ​​his teacher's exam and was from 1925 to 1940 taught at the Bessel secondary school in Königsberg, where he taught science and mathematics. He also dealt with microfossils from Silurian and Ordovician of the Scandinavian attachments. He began about 1930 to publish. In 1942 he became a lecturer in Königsberg. In 1945, he got into East Prussia again in Soviet captivity. After returning 1951, he was an adjunct professor at the University of Tübingen, where he was initially full time teacher at the Oberreutlinger trade school in Reutlingen. In Tübingen, he was academically very active and had several graduate students.

In the micropalaeontology he led among other things the concept chitinozoans (probably fossil egg capsules of Paleozoic marine organisms, which left no skeletal remains ) and Melanosclerit, examined the fossil plankton associated Hystricosphären, dinoflagellates and graptolites.

He was since 1973 Honorary Member of the Palaeontological Society.