Emanuel Kayser

Emanuel Kayser (* March 26, 1845 in Königsberg i Pr; † November 29, 1927 in Munich) was a German geologist and university professor. The founded together with Wilhelm Dames, the Palaeontological memoirs and was the first chairman in 1910 he co-founded the Geological Association.

Life

He grew up in Bingen on the Rhine and in 1854 in a German Education Institute in Moscow. From 1864 to 1870 he studied natural sciences at the University of Halle ( 1864-1866 ), chemistry at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg ( 1866-1867 ) by Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and geology at the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Berlin. In 1871 he received a doctorate in phil .. Since 1871 he has been a lecturer at the University of Berlin, ab1872 habilitated lecturer at the Berlin Mining Academy and since 1881 honorary professor, he was from 1873 to 1885 State Geologist for the Prussian Geological Survey, for which he several sheets of Prussian Geological map edited. In 1881 he became a professor at the Mining Academy in Berlin. In 1885 he was appointed to the University of Marburg to the chair of geology and paleontology. 1896/97 he was rector of the Philipps- University. From 1910 to 1920 he was Chairman of the Geological Association, which he founded with. After his 32-year professorship, he became professor emeritus in 1917. His ten year retirement he spent in Munich.

It dealt mainly with the stratigraphy, paleontology and tectonics of the Palaeozoic, particularly in the resin and in the Rhenish Slate Mountains. His PhD is one of Rudolf Richter and his postdoctoral Hans Cloos. His textbook of geology has been completely revised later by Roland Brinkmann in new editions and continued.

He was in 1912 one of the few who supported the continental drift hypothesis by Alfred Wegener.

1882 to 1897 he was with Wilhelm Dames editor of the Palaeontological memoirs and 1910 co-founder of the Geological Association.

Works (selection)

• Textbook of Geology: Volume 1 General Geology, Stuttgart 1893, 2nd edition 1905
• Volume 2 Geological formation customer, Stuttgart 1891, 2nd edition 1902
• In 6th Edition 1923, 1924 and 1931 appeared in four volumes.