Josef Felix Pompeckj
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Josef Felix Pompeckj (May 10, 1867, Groß-Köllen – July 8, 1930,
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. He was born in Groß-Köllen,
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). He studied geology and paleontology at the
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, receiving his doctorate in 1890 with the thesis ''Die Trilobitenfauna der ost- und westpreußischen Diluvialgeschiebe''. In 1903 he became an associate professor in
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, and from 1904 taught classes in geology and
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at the agricultural college in Hohenheim.Pompeckj, Josef Felix
In:
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(NDB). Band 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, , S. 613 f.
In 1907 he relocated to the
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, where he eventually became a full professor of geology and paleontology. From 1913 he worked as a professor at
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, then in 1917 moved to the
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as successor to
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. At Berlin, he was appointed director of Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut und Museum where one of his doctoral students was
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.


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. 190
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* 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


References

1867 births 1930 deaths People from Olsztyn County Scientists from the Province of Prussia 19th-century German geologists German paleontologists 20th-century German geologists University of Königsberg alumni Academic staff of the University of Göttingen Academic staff of the University of Tübingen Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin Scientists active at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin {{Germany-scientist-stub