Wilhelm Dames

Wilhelm Barnim Dames ( born June 9, 1843 in Stolp, † December 22, 1898 in Berlin) was a German paleontologist and geologist.

Life

The father, Louis Dames, was Appelationsgerichtsrat in Wroclaw. Wilhelm Dames attended from 1858 that Mary Magdalene school. After graduation (1864 ) he studied at the universities of Berlin and Ferdinand von Roemer in Breslau, where he also gained his doctorate in 1868. 1871 was Dames assistant at the Museum of Geology and Paleontology, University of Berlin (now Museum of Natural History (Berlin) ). After his habilitation in 1874, he became in 1878 associate professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1877 he married the daughter of the Estonian Baron Robert von Toll ( ADB Vol 38, pp. 416-421 ). And Wilhelm Dames in 1891 was appointed as the successor of Heinrich Ernst Beyrich appointed professor of geology and paleontology.

Services

In the years 1881, 1884, 1890 Dames visited Sweden. About his scientific knowledge gained there he wrote several treatises, including Geological travel from Sweden (1881 ). Together with Emanuel Kayser, professor of paleontology and geology at the University of Marburg, he gave in 1881 the periodical Paleontological papers out. The topics of his publications were mainly fossil vertebrates, glacial deposits in the north German plain and its attachments as studies on trilobites and echinoids ( sea urchins ). They appeared in the Journal of the Geological Society, as treatises and special reports of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin, which he was a member since 1892, and in New Year book of Mineralogy. In the paleontological literature one finds the name of Wilhelm ( Barnim ) Dames and over again, especially in the context of the primitive bird Archaeopteryx. The specimen described by him bears the name Archaeopteryx SiemensI because Dames could cause the physicist Werner von Siemens to a rare fossil from the Solnhofen slate for the Museum of Natural History of the Humboldt - to fund university in Berlin. As the first German geologist Dames assisted the ice - theory of Otto Martin Torell. Special services he had also earned as head of the Geological Museum, Berlin. The private library of William Dames in 1899, purchased a year after his untimely death, of the University Library of Humboldt University in Berlin.

Publications

  • Palaeontological Memoirs, eds zus with E. Kayser, Berlin 1881 - 1886
  • About Archaeopteryx, Berlin 1884
  • About Zeuglodonten from Egypt and the relations of Archaeoceten to the other cetaceans, Jena 1894
  • The Glacialbildungen the North German Plain, Berlin 1886
  • About the layer sequence of Silurbildungen Gotland and their relationships to obersilurischen attachments northern Germany, Berlin 1890
  • About bird remains from the Saltholmskalk of Limhamn in Malmö, Stockholm 1890
  • The Chelonia the North German Tertiary formations, Jena 1894
  • Commemorative speech on Ernst Beyrich, Berlin 1899
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