ZITTEL, KARL ALFRED VON (18391904)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 992 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: YAK-ZYM

ZITTEL, KARL ALFRED VON (18391904) , German palaeontologist, was born at Bahlingen in Baden on the 25th of September 1839. He was educated at Heidelberg, Paris and Vienna. For a short period he served on the Geological Survey of Austria, and as assistant in the mineralogical museum at Vienna. In 1863 he became teacher of geology and

mineralogy

MINERALOGY

in the

polytechnic

POLYTECHNIC (Gr. aroWus, many, and rEXvn, an art)

at Carlsruhe, and three years later he succeeded Oppel as professor of palaeontology in the university of Munich, with the charge of the state collection of fossils. In 188o he was appointed to the geological professorship, and eventually to the directorship of the natural history museum of Munich. His earlier

work

WORK

comprised a monograph on the Cretaceous bivalve mollusca of Gosau (186366); and an essay on the Tithonian stage (187o), regarded as equivalent to the Purbeck and

Wealden

WEALDEN

formations. In 187374 he accompanied the Rohifs expedition to the Libyan desert, the primary results of which were published in Uber den geologischen Bau der libyschen Wiiste (188o), and further details in the Palaeontographica (1883). Dr

Zittel

ZITTEL, KARL ALFRED VON (1839–1904)

was distinguished for his palaeontological researches. From 1869 until the close of his life he was

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

editor of the Palaeontographica (founded in 1846 by W. Dunker and H. von Meyer). In 1876 he commenced the publication cf his

great

GREAT

work

WORK

, Handbuch der Palaeontologie, which was completed in 1893 in five volumes, the fifth volume on palaeobotany being prepared by W. P. Schimper and A. Schenk. To make his work as trustworthy as possible Dr

Zittel

ZITTEL, KARL ALFRED VON (1839–1904)

made

special

SPECIAL

studies of each

great

GREAT

group, commencing with the fossil sponges, on which he published a monograph (187779). In 1895 he issued a summary of his larger work entitled Grundzuge der Palaeontologie (ed. 2, part 1, Invertebrata, revised by Dr Zittel in 1903; the American edition of 1900 by C. R. Eastman is so revised, sometimes in opposition to Zittel's views, as to be practically an independent work). He was author of Aus der Urzeit (1873, ed. 2, 1875); and Die Sahara (1883). In 1899 he published Geschichte der Geologic and Paiaeontologie bis Ende des 19 Jahrhunderis, a monumental history of the progress of geological science (Eng. trans., Mrs Maria M. Ogilvie-Gordon, 1901). Dr Zittel was from 1899 president of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and in 1894 he was awarded the Wollaston medal by the Geological Society of London. He died on the 5th of January 1904.
Obituary with portrait and bibliography, by Dr F. L. Kitchin, Geol. Mag. (February 1904).
I 2 3 4 5
No. I is only used for pas-sages in

double

notes and for chords.
v v

ZIZKA

ZIZKA, JOHN (c. 1376-1424)

-ZOBEIR RAHAMA

End of Article: ZITTEL, KARL ALFRED VON (18391904)

If you wish, you can link directly to this article.

<a href="http://jcsm.org/StudyCenter/Encyclopedia/YAK_ZYM/ZITTEL_KARL_ALFRED_VON_1839190.html">
ZITTEL, KARL ALFRED VON (18391904)
</a>

(Previous)
ZITTAU

(Next)
ZIZKA, JOHN (c. 1376-1424)

JCSM was founded in 1997 and exists to help the community and bring people into a life-changing and productive relationship with Jesus Christ. JCSM offers over 200,000 free web pages, including its weekly inspirational emails that were sent continuously for over a decade.

Jesus Christ Saves Ministries
P.O. Box 9297
San Diego, CA 92169
1-888-887-0417 or Email