Heinz Ebert

Heinz Eber
Born	(1907-10-13)13 October 1907 Saxony,German Empire
Died	26 April 1983(1983-04-26)(aged 75) Rio Claro, São Paulo,Brazil
Nationality	German-Brazilian
Alma mater	University of Leipzig
Scientific career
Fields	Geology Natural History

Heinz Ebert(13 October 1907 inChemnitz,Saxony– 26 April 1983 inRio Claro, São Paulo,Brazil) was a German-Braziliangeologist,naturalist,andeducator.

Life

Ebert had his basic training inchemistry,physics,andanalytical chemistryand natural sciences and served as geologist at the Geological Survey ofSaxony(Geologisches Landesamt). He was obtained hisPhDat theUniversity of Leipzigin 1933, where he became anassociate professorin 1934. He worked onpetrographyat the Geological Survey of Saxony and developed methods to recognize stratigraphic sequences by petrographic and structural analysis. From 1939 to 1946,World War IIinterrupted his geological activity. After the war he returned togeologyand opened an office for applied geology (groundwater,drilling,economic geology,geology for dams, etc.) Ebert was married to Sophie Wagner, daughter of botanist Albert Wagner for whom the palmTrachycarpus Fortunei Wagnerianusis named.

He moved toRecifein 1950 and was influential in creating the CAGE (Campaign for Training Geologists). From 1950 to 1956, he was a "specialized geologist" at the Division of Geology andMineralogy,which evolved from the oldGeological Survey of Brazil,and mapped the regions ofSão João del Rei,Juiz de Fora,andBarbacena,a whole complex metasedimentary southern region ofMinas Gerais.He was director ofSudene,training technicians in areas of groundwater in crystalline rocks.

In 1962 he moved to Rio Claro, São Paulo, to teach various subjects in the field of geosciences at the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of theUniversidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho,assisting in the creation of the geology course. He continued his studies with attention to the south and southwest of the state of Minas Gerais. He made several trips abroad, bringing to Brazil contributions of his observations and contacts. He had many students, many of them becoming professors and continuing his work, especially in teaching mineralogy,petrology,structural geology,and the creation and maintenance of the Museum of Minerals and Rocks "Heinz Ebert".This museum has a vast collection that Ebert donated, including many didactic collections.

Ebert formed inRecifemore graduate students. He published around 60 works on geosciences, especially of Brazil. Between 1977 and 1980 he also collaborated with the course of geology at theUniversidade Federal de Mato Grosso.

In 1974, Ebert won theJose BonifacioGold Medal of theSociedade Brasileira de Geologia,the highest prize in Brazilian geology.

As a naturalist, Ebert had a passion forbutterflycollection. He died in 1983, in Rio Claro, Brazil.

Selected works

• Das Grundgebirge im Elbtale nördlich von Tetschen.(Leipzig, phil. thesis, 1933), – Abhandlungen d. Sächs. Geol. Landesamtes. H. 14 (1934)..
• Die Elbtalzone und das Lausitzer Massiv im Bereiche des Kartenblattes Dresden.– Erläuterungen zur geologischen Karte Sachsen, No. 66: Blatt Dresden. 3. ed., Geologisches Landesamt, Leipzig 1934, pp. 9–50.
• with Wilhelm Jaeger:Erläuterungen zur geologischen Karte von Sachsen. No. 152: Blatt Klingenthal-Zwota. nebst einem kleinen Teil von Blatt 155, Landwüst.2. ed., Geologisches Landesamt, Leipzig 1935.
• Das vortertiäre Grundgebirge des Kartenblattes Hirschfelde.– Erläuterungen zur geologischen Karte von Sachsen, No. 89: Blatt Hirschfelde. Geologisches Landesamt. Leipzig 1937, pp. 6–24.
• Das granitische Grundgebirge der östlichen Lausitz.habil. thesis(″Diss. phil. habil.″ of 13. Nov. 1940), Universität Leipzig, Leipzig 1943 (printed: Hirzel Verlag, Leipzig 1943).

See also

List of geologists

External links

• About Heinz Ebert
• Museum of Rocks and Minerals "Heinz Ebert"atRio Claro, São Paulo