Max Schlosser

Max Schlosser ( born February 5, 1854 in Munich, † October 7, 1932 in Munich) was a German paleontologist.

Schlosser was the son of a royal Bavarian battalion physician and attended the Ludwig Gymnasium in Munich. From 1873 he studied natural sciences at the University of Munich and the Technical University of Munich with a teaching degree in 1878 and his doctorate in Karl von Zittel in paleontology 1880 on the Jurassic fauna of the Muschelkalk Kelheimer. In 1884 he went with the recommendation of Zittel to Othniel Charles Marsh to the Peabody Museum of Natural History, but returned a year later back after an illness. He was an assistant with Zittel and in 1890 Curator, 1900, second curator and then head curator. In 1924 he retired, but working as a volunteer on at the Bavarian State Collection.

He was a leading expert in his time for European mammals of the Tertiary in Germany. Among other things, he dug out of a cave lion and cave bear. He also worked on fossil mammals from China ( from purchases of so-called dragon teeth in Chinese pharmacies, published 1903). This he described, among others, a new Säbelzahnkatzenart ( Paramachairodus maximiliani ) 1904. He edited the volume on vertebrate paleontology in the Broad paleontology his teacher Zittel. 1895 to 1904 he was a member of the New Yearbook of mineralogy, geology and paleontology.

Writings

  • The rodents of the European Tertiary, Palaeontographica, Volume 31, 1884, 1-140
  • The monkeys, lemurs, Chiropteren insectivores ... of the European Tertiary, contributions to paleontology Austria -Hungary and of the Orient, Volume 6, 1887, pp. 1-224, Volume 7, 1888, pp. 1-192
  • Geology of the Lower Inn Valley, Yearbook of the Imperial Geological Institute, 1909, pp. 525-574
  • The bears or Tischoferhöhle in Emperor in Kufstein, Proceedings of the Bavarian Academy of Science, Mathematics and Natural Sciences. T. 24, volume 2, 1909, pp. 387-506
  • The Eocänfaunen the Bavarian Alps, Abh Bayr. Acad. , Mathematics and Natural Sciences. Terminal 30, 1925, part 1, pp. 1-207, volume 2, pp. 1-66
  • Guide to the Munich State Collection of Paleontology, 1912.
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