Oskar Kuhn

Oskar Kuhn ( born March 7, 1908 in Munich, † 1990) was a German vertebrate paleontologist.

Life

Kuhn went to Dinkelsbühl and Bamberg to school and studied natural sciences and especially geology and paleontology at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich, where he received his doctorate in 1932. There he worked even after the doctorate, on Fossilium Catalogus (Department reptiles and amphibians) and went in 1938 to the University of Halle, where he worked on the fossils of the Geiseltal. Between 1933 and 1936 he was a member of the SA. In 1939 he received his doctorate in Halle on the fauna of the Keuper of Halberstadt. In 1940 he became private, but was in 1941 after a bitter dispute (partly for political reasons ) dismissed with his boss and former mentor John Weigelt ( revocation of teaching certificate ) and was briefly a soldier until he was dismissed in February 1942 with a lung condition. After the war, in 1947 he became an associate professor at the Philosophical- Theological College Bamberg, left there but soon it from. Later he was in Munich.

He wrote numerous books on paleontology. He edited the section reptiles and amphibians in the Fossilium Catalogus (25 Partes 1933-1965 ).

In 1955 he published the villages in the Sass quarries west of Bamberg (whose rocks document the time the turn of Triassic to Jurassic and emerged on a fresh water lake ) discovered the world 's oldest true leaf ( Sassendorfites benkerti ). In 1958 he published from the same layers dinosaur tracks ( he Coelurosaurichnus sassendorfensis attributed ). Dinosaur finds from this period are rare.

In 1938 he barg at Halberstadt [note 1] the remains of an originally complete skeleton of a predatory dinosaur of the genus Liliensternus the Triassic ( for unknown reasons, failed before the rescue).

He was a staunch Catholic and a follower of formerly widely in German paleontology alternative theories of evolution ( Typostrophenlehre ). He explained, for example, 1965: "Whether we should include all animals and plants into a single evolutionary process, we can not decide, especially since the first two thirds of evolution are not supported by paleontological documents ". And further: " The very fact of the absence of almost all Precambrian documents is reason enough to be cautious on the question of whether we are dealing with a single, all-encompassing process of evolution. "

Writings

  • The mammal-like reptiles ( therapsids ), Ziemsen, 1970, New Brehm Library
  • Palaeozoology in tables, G. Fischer 1940
  • Phylogeny of vertebrates, 1938
  • Phylogeny of invertebrate animals, 1939
  • Textbook of Palaeozoology, Schweizerbart 1949
  • Germany prehistoric wildlife, Borntraeger 1941
  • Life images from the prehistoric fauna of Germany, Vowickel 1940 ( Publications of the Society for the Promotion of the Central German Museum of Earth's Hall )
  • Geology and mineral resources of the Bavarian Eastern March, 1938 Borntraeger
  • The theory of evolution. Basics of wholeness Biology, Bamberg, Meisenbach 1951 ( and Munich, Kösel Verlag, 1951)
  • The amphibians and reptiles of old, Wittenberg, Ziemsen 1958
  • With Hartmut Haubold life Images and evolution of fossil dinosaurs, amphibians and reptiles, Wittenberg, Ziemsen, 1961, 2nd edition 1981
  • The prehistoric invertebrates. System and evolution, Krailing near Munich, Oeben 1966
  • The prehistoric fish and fish -like, Wittenberg, Ziemsen 1967
  • The wildlife of the Solnhofen slate, 5th edition, Ziemsen, 1977 ( New Brehm Library )
  • The wildlife of the Mansfeld Kupferschiefer, Ziemsen, Wittenberg 1964
  • The fauna of the covenant Bacher slate, Ziemsen, Wittenberg 1961
  • The prehistoric birds, Ziemsen, Wittenberg, 1971 ( New Brehm Library )
  • The refutation of materialism, Altötting 1970 ( Brothers Geiselberger )
  • The dinosaurs of the German Trias, Altötting 1971 ( Brothers Geiselberger )
  • The dinosaurs of the German law, Altötting 1971 ( Brothers Geiselberger )
  • Amphibians and reptiles: Catalogue of the subfamilies and higher taxa with proof of the first occurrence, G. Fischer 1967
  • The German dinosaurs, publishing Oeben, Krailing 1968 ( Supplement I, 1974)
  • The reptiles. System and phylogeny, publishing Oeben, Krailing 1966
  • The amphibians. System and phylogeny, publishing Oeben, Krailing 1965
  • Editor and founder of Paläoherpetologie Manual / Handbook of Paleoherpetology, G. Fischer, 1978 ( continued by Hans -Dieter Sues, Peter Wellhofer etc.)
  • Geology of Bavaria, 3rd edition, BLV Verlag 1964
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