Josef Felix Pompeckj
German palaeontologist and geologist
About Josef Felix Pompeckj
Lived 1867 – 1930 (aged 63). Josef Felix Pompeckj was a German geologist, paleontologist, malacologist, university teacher, scientist and executive.
Josef Felix Pompeckj (May 10, 1867, Groß-Köllen – July 8, 1930, Berlin) was a German paleontologist and geologist.
He was born in Groß-Köllen, Kingdom of Prussia (now Kolno in Poland). He studied geology and paleontology at the University of Königsberg, receiving his doctorate in 1890 with the thesis Die Trilobitenfauna der ost- und westpreußischen Diluvialgeschiebe. In 1903, he became an associate professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and from 1904, he taught classes in geology and mineralogy at Hohenheim Agricultural Academy.
In 1907, he relocated to the University of Göttingen, where he eventually became a full professor of geology and paleontology. From 1913, he worked as a professor at the University of Tübingen, then in 1917 moved to the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin as successor to Wilhelm von Branca. At the Friedrich WIlhelm University of Berlin, he was appointed director of Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut und Museum where one of his doctoral students was Hertha Doreck.
Selected publications Pompeckj JF. Ueber Aucellen und Aucellen-ähnliche Formen. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie. 1881 Pompeckj JF. Uber Ammonoideen mit anormaler Wohnkammer. Jahreshefte des Vereins für Vaterländische Naturkunde, 1884 Pompeckj JF. Die Fauna des Cambriums von Tejřovic und Skrej in Böhmen. Jahrbuch der Geologischen Reichsanstalt, 1896 Pompeckj JF. Uber Calymene Brongniart. Neues Jahrbüch für Mineralogie, 1898 Pompeckj JF. Marines Mesozoikum von König Karls Land. Stockholm, Vet.-Akad. Öfvers., Arg, 1899 Pompeckj JF. Pompeckj JF. Jura-Fossilien aus Alaska. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlichen Russischen Mineralogischen Gesellschaft zu St. Petersburg. Zweite Serie. Bd.XXXVIII. Nr.1. 239-282. 1900 PDF Pompeckj JF. Die Juraablagerungen zwischen Regensburg und Regenstauf. Geogn. Jahrb, 1901 Pompeckj JF. Ueber Aucellen und Aucellen-ähnliche Formen.—Neues Jahrb. f. Min., Geol. u. Palaeontol. Bd XIV Pompeckj JF. Aus dem Tremadoc der Montagne Noire (Süd-Frankreich). Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaontologie, 1902 Pompeckj JF. Die zoogeographischen Beziehungen zwischen den Jurameeren NW-und S-Deutschlands. J.-Ber. nieders. geol. Ver., Hannover, 1908 Pompeckj JF. Über einen Fund von Mosasaurier-Resten im Ober-Senon von Haldem. 1910 Pompeckj JF. Zur Rassenpersistenz der Ammoniten. Jahresbericht des Niedersachischen Geologischen Vereins, 1910 Pompeckj JF. Amphineura-Palaontologie. Handworterbuch der Naturwissenschaften, 1912 Pompeckj JF. Das Meer des Kupferschiefers. Sonderabdruck aus der Branca-Festschrift. (Leipzig, Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1914). Pompeckj JF. Die Bedeutung des Schwäbischen Jura für die Erdgeschichte. Stuttgart, 1914 Kupferschiefer und Kupferschiefermeer. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften, Band 72. p. 329-339 Pompeckj JF. Das Ohrskelett von Zeuglodon. Senckenbergiana, 1922 Pompeckj JF. Ammoniten des Rhät Pompeckj JF. Ein neues Zeugnis uralten Lebens. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 9: 287–313. 1927 Schuchert C, LeVene CM, Pompeckj JF. Brachiopoda:(generum et genotyporum index et bibliographia). 1929 W. Junk, Berlin
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German palaeontologist and geologist (1867-1930)
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Josef Felix Pompeckj was born on 10 May 1867 in Kolno.
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Josef Felix Pompeckj died on 8 July 1930 in Berlin.
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Josef Felix Pompeckj was a geologist, paleontologist, malacologist, university teacher, scientist and executive.
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