Lukas Hottinger

Luke Conrad Hottinger ( born February 25, 1933, Dusseldorf, † 4 September 2011 in Basel) was a Swiss micro - paleontologist and biologist specializing in foraminifera ( here and macro - foraminifera ).

Life

Hottinger, who came from a family of doctors and was born as a Swiss citizen in Dusseldorf, went to Basel to school ( Abitur at the Humanistic Gymnasium 1952) and studied there ( after a start of the study of medicine) geology, paleontology, mineralogy, zoology and botany. He received his doctorate in 1959 with Manfred Reichel at the University of Basel on the systematics and biostratigraphy of the Foraminiferengruppe Alveolinidae the Paleocene and Eocene. Like his teacher Reichel he had talent for drawing and made the drawings of foraminifera for his dissertation itself. As a post - graduate student, he worked from 1959 to 1964 for the Geological recording of Morocco under Choubert Georges and Anne Faure -Muret. He taught there in Rabat whose first mikropaläontologisches laboratory and taught at the University of Rabat. This led to his habilitation on Basel foraminifera of the Jurassic of Morocco. From 1964, he was auxiliary curator at the Natural History Museum in Basel as a colleague of Hans Schaub, with whom he worked a lot and was a friend. At the museum he set up a permanent exhibition on the Basel area geology. In 1966 he succeeded his teacher Reichel professor of geology and paleontology in Basel and was also at the city's Natural History Museum. In 1998 he retired. Since a visiting professor in 1970 at the Hebrew University, he worked a lot with Israeli scientists ( Zeev Reiss from Steinitz Marine Laboratory in Eilat ) and since 1969 with micropalaeontologists in Slovenia ( Ljubljana). He also had close contacts with research institutes and universities in Barcelona, Lahore, Isfahan and Naples.

He was regarded as an internationally recognized scientist for foraminifera, which he on almost all continents examined (such as the Indo- Pacific, Africa, Atlantic, Mediterranean, Pyrenees ). In addition to fossil foraminifera he also deals with recent, for example, in the Maldives, Mauritius, in the Gulf of Aqaba, in the Mediterranean and in New Caledonia. He used his expertise for studies on environmental pollution and the dumping of radioactive wastes in the deep sea. He was a member of the International Commission for the Paleogene stratigraphic. He had a leading role in the project Early Paleogene Benthos of the IGCP (International Geoscience Program of UNESCO and IUGS ​​), which examined the development of marine fauna after the mass extinction at the turn of Cretaceous-Tertiary, and in IGCP project neritic events at the Middle / Upper Eocene. He stopped in the 1990s courses on Makroforaminiferen within the COMETT program of the EU.

In 2007 he became a corresponding member of the Paleontological Society, and he was a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences Switzerland (whose vice- president until 1994, he was in 1988 ) and the Slovenian Academy of Sciences ( 1993). In 1997 he was awarded for his lifetime achievement award of the Cushman Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, and was honorary doctorate from the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona.

Hottinger has published over 160 articles and six major monographs.

He was married and had three sons.

Writings

  • Recherches sur les Alveolines you Paleocene Eocene et de, Memoires Suisses de Paleontology, Volume 75/76, 1960
  • Foraminous imperforés you Mesozoique Marocain, Notes et Mémoires du Service Géologique du Maroc, Volume 209, 1967
  • Foraminous operculiformes, Memoires Museum National Histoire Naturelle Paris, Band C 40, 1977 ( 129 pages )
  • With Katica Drobne Early Tertiary conical foraminifera, razprave, Volume 22, 1980, pp. 169-276
  • As editor: Rotaliid foraminifera, Memoires Suisses de Paleontology, Volume 101, 1980
  • Larger Foraminifera, giant cells with a historical background, natural sciences, Volume 69, 1982, p 361-371
  • Learning from the past, in R. Levi- Montalcini (Editor) Frontiers of Life, Volume 4, Part 2 (Discovery and spoliation of the biosphere ), 2001, pp. 449-477
  • Illustrated glossary of terms used in foraminiferal research, Notebooks on Geology (Brest), Memoir 2006/2 (126 pages)
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