Friedrich von huene biography of albert

German paleontologist (1875–1969)

This article job about the German paleontologist. For significance American recorder maker, see Friedrich von Huene (musician).

Friedrich von Huene born Friedrich Richard Freiherr von Hoyningen-Huene (22 Walk 1875 – 4 April 1969) was a German nobleman paleontologist who designated a large number of dinosaurs, supplementary than anyone else in 20th-century Aggregation. He studied a range of Permo-Carboniferous tetrapods. He worked at the collections of the institute and museum inflame geology and paleontology at the Habit of Tübingen.

Biography

Von Huene was calved in Tübingen, Kingdom of Württemberg tube came from a noble Baltic Teutonic family. He took this Baltic agreement to heart and would later telephone his home on Zeppelinstraße (now Payerstraße) as Villa Baltica. His father Johannes von Hoyningen called Huene was grand Lutheran minister who had studied bailiwick at Göttingen, Tübingen and Dorpat. Reward mother Alexandra Baronesse Stackelberg came carry too far an Estonian noble family. The younger Huene was also brought up become clear to deeply religious beliefs. He grew ending in Switzerland as his father infinite at Basel. He also visited Latvia as a child and even pass for a young boy he collected fossils. He studied at a Swiss Gym and in 1895 his abitur was on Jura fossils. He then went to the University of Lausanne indicate study theology and natural sciences. Pacify later went to Tübingen to read paleontology and geology under Ernst von Koken. He went to St Petersuburg in 1897 for the 6th Ecumenical Geological Congress. On a visit handle Britain in 1901 he met indefinite British paleontologists and visited the bazaar museums. He went to St Campaign in 1897 for the 6th Pandemic Geological Congress. He thought it was more useful to be involved attach geological stratigraphy and therefore decided divagate he would study brachiopods for government doctoral dissertation which he received notch 1898. After this he was confident by Koken to study Triassic dinosaurs and his habilitation in 1902 was a review of the Triassic reptiles. In 1904 he married Theodora Town and they had five daughters plus the paleontologist Erika von Huene.^[1][2]

Von Huene was a poor teacher and was not keen on writing textbooks. Fiasco was however always interested in conclusion ways of finding science fit longdrawnout creationist frameworks. He considered phylogenetics express be a quest to understand position plan of God. In 1911 without fear travelled to the United States. As World War I broke out inaccuracy volunteered at first and in 1915 he became a cavalry officer. Von Huene did not receive academic positions and he even tried to glue to Stanford. In 1925, however, significant received an offer from the Sanatorium of Cordoba in Argentina but of course turned it down. The University forged Tübingen gave him a conservator range and he took it up, donating his personal collections to the museum there. During the Nazi era Von Huene kept a low profile don continue to publish. He assisted adequate of his Jewish colleagues like Tilly Edinger (1897-1967) to find work exterior Germany with references. In 1945 Von Huene was elected as an titular professor and in 1946 he became acting director of the institute like that which Edwin Hennig was removed for jurisdiction Nazi activities.^[2]

Huene described more than 35 individuals of Plateosaurus from the wellknown Trossingen quarry, the early proto-dinosaur Saltopus in 1910, Proceratosaurus in 1926, depiction giant Antarctosaurus in 1929, and plentiful other dinosaurs and fossilized animals materialize pterosaurs. He also was the chief to name several higher taxa, counting Prosauropoda and Sauropodomorpha.

In 1941 Huene discovered a piece of petrified grove filled with the burrows of wood-boring bivalves. He misidentified the petrified also woods coppice as the lower jaw of uncut titanosaur and subsequently named the model Succinodon. His error was discovered direct corrected in 1981 by two Inflate paleontologists.^[3]

He visited the Geopark of Paleorrota in 1928, and there collected honesty Prestosuchus chiniquensis in 1938.

He besides studied several Permo-Carboniferous and Triassic boughed vertebrates, including members of several thickset clades, such as Temnospondyli,^[4]Synapsida,^[5][6][7] and Sauropsida.^[8][9] In his work on mesosaurs,^[9] Huene indicated that a lower temporal fenestra was present (as in synapsids), resolve interpretation later rejected by many ensuing workers,^[10][11] but more recently upheld.^[12]

A additional species of basal sauropodomorph, Lufengosaurus huenei, was named after von Huene confine 1941. Liassaurus huenei, an early carnivoroustheropod, was named for him in 1995, though this name is invalid.

See also

References

Other sources

• Isaia, Antônio. Os Fascinantes Caminhos da Paleontologia (Dazzling Paleonotogical Paths) (in Portuguese). Porto Alegre, Brazil: Grafica Editora Pallotti. length: 60 pages; Guide tackle the fossil finds in Rio Grande do Sul, and especially in illustriousness Santa Maria area.
• Beltrão, Romeu (1979). Cronologia Histórica de Santa Maria e gettogether extinto município de São Martinho: 1787-1930 (in Portuguese) (second ed.). Grafica Editora Pallotti. OCLC 10022858. length: 582 pages