Curt Teichert

Curt Teichert ( born May 8, 1905 in Königsberg, † 10 May 1996 Arlington ) was a German - American paleontologist and geologist.

Life

Curt Teichert studied geology at the University of Munich, the Albert- Ludwigs- University of Freiburg and the University of Königsberg, where he received his doctorate in 1928. After that, he was an assistant in Freiburg and 1930 with a Rockefeller Fellowship in the United States (Washington DC, New York City, Albany ), where he conducted research on ammonites. 1931/32 he participated in the Danish expedition to Greenland in part as a geologist. After that, he conducted research for some time in Copenhagen before he went in 1937 to the University of Western Australia in Perth as a lecturer. From 1945 he was Assistant Chief Geologist of the Mines Department of Victoria from 1947 to 1952 and Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne (whose Syme Prize he received in 1949 ). He was one of the founders of the Geological Society of Australia and Advisor to the Bureau of Mineral Resources. In Australia he conducted stratigraphic studies, studied sedimentary basins, ammonites and coral reefs (including the Great Barrier Reef ). In 1949 he was invited by Raymond C. Moore, edit the Ammonites band for the Treatise of Intervertebrate Paleontology and keep guest lectures in the United States, for which he 1951/2 received a Fulbright scholarship. In 1952, he moved all in the USA as Professor of Geology at the New Mexico School of Mines in Socorro (New Mexico), where he studied the Devonian of New Mexico. From 1954 he worked for he set up at the U.S. Geological Survey ( USGS), 1955, Fuels Geology Laboratory in Denver and directed. 1961 to 1964, he headed for the USGS support a project to establish a Geological Survey of Pakistan, where she organized stratigraphic research. He studied there with B. Kummel the Permian-Triassic transition in the salt rock. In 1964 he became a professor at the University of Kansas. In 1977 he retired and was there until 1995, Adjunct Professor at the University of Rochester.

1964-1979 he was ( in his third volume to mollusks he published in 1964 posts ) and 1971/72 President of the Paleontological Society, the Paleontological Society Medal he was awarded in 1984 co-editor of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. 1976 to 1980 he was president of the International Paleontological Association and he served as Vice President of the International Paleontological Union. In 1969 he was made an honorary member of the Paleontological Society. In 1982 he received the Raymond C. Moore Medal from the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists.

It was founded in 1928 with Gertrud Kaufmann ( † 1993), daughter of the physicist Walter Kaufmann married.

Writings

  • Australia and Gondwanaland, Geological Rundschau, Volume 47, 1959, pp. 562-590
  • From Karpinsky to Schindewolf: Memories of some great Paleontologists, Journal of Paleontology, Volume 50, 1976, p 1-12
  • Main features of cephalopod evolution, in MR Clarke, ER Trueman (Editor) The Mollusca, Volume 12, Academic Press, 1988, p.11 -79
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