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 | |
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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 |
Categories
- Geologist (20th century)
- Paleontologist
- University lecturer (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen site)
- Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- German
- Born 1928
- Died 2020
- Man