Wilhelm von Branca

Carl Wilhelm Franz von Branca ( until 1895: Wilhelm Branco, 1895-1907: William of Branco, born September 9, 1844 in Potsdam, † March 12, 1928 in Munich) was a German geologist and paleontologist.

He was first officer, then a farmer and eventually studied geology in Halle and Heidelberg. After graduation, he went in 1876 to Strasbourg and Rome to Karl Alfred von Zittel. In 1881 he completed his habilitation in Berlin and then was a lecturer, even briefly in Aachen. Then he became the country geologist at the Prussian Geological Survey in Berlin. In 1887 he was a professor in Königsberg from 1890 to 1895 in Tübingen, then at Hohenheim and finally from 1899 to 1917 in Berlin. In Berlin, he was director of the Museum of Natural History.

Branca research on paleontology, stratigraphy, volcanism, about the evolution of ammonites and fossil vertebrates as well as Paläanthropologie. In 1883 was chosen by Branca member of the Scholars Academy Leopoldina, 1900 he became a member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin. 1909-1912 he accompanied the expedition to Tendaguru German East Africa.

Works

  • The volcanoes of the country Hernici in Frosinone in central Italy. Berlin 1877.
  • Contributions to the knowledge of the genus Lepidotus, etc. ( Atlas. ). 1887
  • Swabia 125 volcanic embryos and their tufferfüllte outbreak tubes; the largest Maargebiet the earth. In: Annual Reviews Patriotic Natural History. Volume 50, Stuttgart 1894 (also printed separately: Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 1894, online).
  • The volcanic Ries at Nördlingen in its meaning for questions of general geology. 1901
  • Cause and effect of earthquakes. Speech on birthday of his book printer Gustav Schade Majesty the Emperor and King Wilhelm II in the auditorium of the Royal Friedrich -Wilhelms University in Berlin on 27 January 1902., Berlin 1902.
  • The kryptovulcanische pool of Steinheim. In 1905.
  • The application of X-rays in paleontology. In 1906.
  • The storage conditions Colorful breccia on the railway line Donauwörth- Treuchtlingen ... in 1907.
  • Are all boys lying in the interior of Ichthyosauren exception embryos? In 1907.
  • The state of our knowledge of the fossil man, etc. 1910.
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