Josef Felix Pompeckj

Josef Felix POMPECKJ ( born May 10, 1867 in East Prussia United Köllen; † July 8, 1930 in Berlin) was a German paleontologist and geologist.

Life

POMPECKJ made ​​at the grammar school in Elbing graduated from high school and studied from 1885 Geology and Paleontology at the University of Königsberg, where he became in 1885 a member of the fraternity Alemannia. He received his PhD in 1890 under Wilhelm von Branca ( The Trilobitenfauna the East and West Prussian Diluvialgeschiebe ). Then he followed by Branca as an assistant at the University of Tübingen. In 1894 he moved to the Paleontological State Collection in Munich, where he habilitated in the same year Karl von Zittel on ammonites. After that, he was a lecturer at the University, from 1897 curator and associate professor in 1903. In 1896 he traveled on behalf of the Government of Romania and Romania Russian Poland. In 1904 he was briefly on the Imperial Geological Institute in Vienna and in the same year professor at the Agricultural University of Hohenheim. In 1907, he was first an associate and then full professor in Göttingen and 1913 at the University of Tübingen. In 1917 he became full professor of geology and paleontology and director of the Geological- Palaeontological Institute and Museum of the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University (now Humboldt University of Berlin), as successor to Wilhelm von Branca. At the same time he was appointed in 1917 to the Privy Bergrat. POMPECKJ remained until his death in Berlin. During the Weimar Republic, he supported public calls in the German National People's Party ( DNVP ). 1923/24, he was dean and 1925/26, Rector of the University. Along with Wilhelm Westphal ( physicist ) he sat down in the 1920s for scientific exchange with the Soviet Union.

Science

POMPECKJ was as a high school teacher in Berlin very successful and established his own school of palaeontologists. According to him the Pompeckjsche threshold is named, with the other hand he told the Faunenunterschied of trilobites in the lower and middle Cambrian of Bohemia on the one hand and the Baltic States and Poland ( 1896). The term was coined by Wilhelm Haack 1926. It proceeded from the Nordsudeten to the lower Elbe and Schleswig -Holstein. 1930 transferred Alfred Bentz the term also to a hypothetical threshold in the Mesozoic, but during large parts of the Mesozoic did not exist. That's why the name was already in 1963 by Ehrhard Voigt severely limited. In the tectonics of Lower Saxony in the Mesozoic, the term was coined Pompeckjsche plaice.

He was a member of the Göttingen Society of Sciences, the Prussian Academy of Sciences ( 1920) and the Leopoldina (1925 ). He was a foreign member of the Paleontological Society of America and the Geological Society of London. 1920 to 1930 he was a board member of the Geological Society.

He was editor of Palaeontographica since 1903, Geological and Palaeontological of essays ( with Friedrich von Huene ) of Lethaea geognostica and New Yearbook of mineralogy, geology and paleontology.

Writings (selection )

  • About Aucellen and Aucellen -like shapes. New year book of mineralogy, geology and paleontology. 1881
  • About ammonoids with abnormal living chamber. Annual Reviews of the Association for Patriotic Natural History, Stuttgart, 1884
  • Contributions to a revision of ammonites of the Swabian Jura. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 1893-1896 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.46837
  • The fauna of the Cambriums of Tejřovic and Skrej in Bohemia. Yearbook of the Imperial Geological Institute, 1896
  • About Calymene Brongniart. New Year book of Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology, 1898
  • Marines Mesozoic of King Karls Land. Stockholm, Ofvers. K. Vetensk - Akad. Forh. , Volume 56, 1899, page 449-464.
  • Jurassic fossils from Alaska. Negotiations of the Imperial Russian Mineralogical Society of St. Petersburg. Second series. Bd.XXXVIII. No.1. 239-282. 1900 PDF
  • The Jurassic deposits between Regensburg and rain Stauf. A contribution to the knowledge of the eastern border of the Franconian Jura. Geognostic Annual Reviews, Volume 14, 1901, pp. 139-220
  • About Aucellen and Aucellen -like shapes. New Jahrb f min, Geol and Paleontology, Volume 14
  • From the Tremadoc of the Montagne Noire (southern France). New Yearbook for mineralogy, geology and paleontology, 1902
  • The zoogeographic relationships between the Jurassic seas NW and S- Germany. J.- Ber. Nieders. geol. Ver., Hannover, 1908
  • About a Fund of mosasaurs residues in the upper Senonian of Haldem. J.- Ber. Nieders. geolog. Ver., 1910, pp. 122-150
  • To Rassenpersistenz the Ammonites. Annual Report of the Lower Saxony Geological Association, 1910
  • Amphineura Paleontology. Handbook of Natural Sciences, 1912
  • The Sea of ​​copper slate. Offprint from the Branca - Festschrift. (Leipzig, Borntraeger Brothers, 1914).
  • The importance of the Swabian Jura of the Earth's history. Stuttgart, 1914
  • Copper slate and copper slate sea. Journal of the German Society for Geosciences, Volume 72 p. 329-339
  • The ear skeleton of Zeuglodon. Senckenbergiana, 1922
  • Ammonites of the Rhaetian, New Yearbook of Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology, 1895, pp. 1-46
  • A new certificate of ancient life. Paleontological Journal 9: 287-313. 1927
  • Charles Schuchert, CM Levene: Brachiopoda: ( generum et genotyporum index et Bibliographia ). 1929 W. Junk, Berlin
  • Adaptation and persistence in the light of geological tradition ( Rector's Address 1924), Berlin 1925, reprinted in Contributions to the History of the Humboldt University of Berlin, No. 30, 1992, p 32
  • Ages the earth?, Berlin, 1926 Ebering
  • The importance of the Swabian Jura of the earth's history ( inaugural 1913), Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 1914
  • POMPECKJ was editor of several volumes of the Catalogus Fossilium, Leiden, Backhuys
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