Arnold Zeiss

Arnold Georg Zeiss (born 23 October 1928 in Munich; † 12 April 2020^[1]) was a German geologist and paleontologist.

Zeiss studied in Munich, graduating with a diploma in geology in 1956. He was awarded his doctorate in the same year. After that he was an assistant in Erlangen. In 1967 he became a Privatdozent there and in 1973 a professor. He was a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

He published a geological guide to the Nördlinger Ries and to the palaeontology of the Franconian Jurassic (ammonites).

Fonts

with Hellmut Haunschild and Josef Theodor Groiss: Das Ries und sein Vorland, Borntraeger, Collection Geological Guides 2000

Individual references

↑ Birth data in Bruno von Freyberg: Das geologische Schrifttum über Nordost-Bayern (1476-1965) Teil II: Biographisches Autoren-Register, Geologica Bavarica 71, Bayerisches Geologisches Landesamt 1974

Personal data
NAME	Zeiss, Arnold
ALTERNATE NAMES	Zeiss, Arnold Georg (full name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION	german geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH	23. October 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich
STERBEDATUM	12. April 2020

[1] Birth data in Bruno von Freyberg: Das geologische Schrifttum über Nordost-Bayern (1476-1965) Teil II: Biographisches Autoren-Register, Geologica Bavarica 71, Bayerisches Geologisches Landesamt 1974

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