Johannes Weigelt

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Johannes Weigelt in 1941

Theodor Otto Gustav Johannes Weigelt (24 July 1890 in Reppen, 22 April 1948 in Klein-Gerau) was a German palaeontologist and geologist.[1]

Weigelt was the first proponent of taphonomy, the study of how organisms decay and eventually become fossilised.[2] In 1934, he was the founder of the Museum for Earth Science of Central Germany at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.[3][4]

Life[edit]

After finishing high school, which he spent in Halle and Blankenburg in 1909,[5] Weigelt studied natural sciences and prehistory at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. In 1911 to 1912 he was assistant to Otto Schlüter at the geographical department.[5] In 1913, he became an assistant to Johannes Walther at the Institute of Geography.[6] Just one year later, in 1914, he wrote a geological-archaeological thesis, but was only awarded his doctorate in December 1917 due to the outbreak of the World War I and his voluntary participation in it.[6] In 1915, Weigelt was severely wounded in the war by shrapnel in and spent the next two and half years in hospital.[6] Just one year after his doctorate, Weigelt habilitated in 1918, with a geological-palaeontological thesis.[5] In December 1918. he found work as collection assistant at the Geological Institute of the University of Halle.[6]

In 1924 he was appointed associate professor, and in 1926 he received a lectureship at the University of Greifswald, where he became full professor of geology and palaeontology in 1928.[7] A year later, in 1929, Weigelt became full professor of geology and palaeontology at the University of Halle, succeeding his former scientific mentor Johannes Walther.

Publications[edit]

  • Weigelt, Johannes; Schaefer, Judith (2009) [1927]. Recent Vertebrate Carcasses and Their Paleobiological Implications Recent Vertebrate Carcasses and Their Paleobiological Implications. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226881683.

References[edit]

Citations[edit]

  1. ^ Klee 2015, p. 661.
  2. ^ Gómez López 2019, pp. 195–214.
  3. ^ Brain 1990.
  4. ^ Hunger 1958.
  5. ^ a b c Hoßfeld, Uwe 2020.
  6. ^ a b c d Eberle 2024.
  7. ^ Hellmund.

Bibliography[edit]

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