| Lepsius, Richard Karl Georg Dr. born 19th September 1851, Berlin, died 20th October 1915, Darmstadt German geologist and paleontologist, university professor. Between 1870 and 1874 he studied natural science in Geneva, Göttingen and in Strasbourg, devoting himself mainly to geology. He earned a Doctorate in philosophy in 1874 in Strasbourg. In 1876, he qualified in geology and paleontology at the University of Heidelberg. In 1877, he was assigned to a post of adjunct professor and, in 1882, full professor of mineralogy and geology at the Polytechnic College in Darmstadt. At the same time he became inspector of the Provincial Geological Institute of Hessen and, in 1881, became its director. He carried out regional geological studies in the Alps, Alsace and Hessen, the Mainz Basin and adjacent regions. He was mainly interested in the investigation of the Jurassic and Tertiary. In paleontological studies he concentrated mostly on vertebrates. He published almost a hundred of scientific papers, the most important being 'Das westliche Süd - Tirol' (1878), 'Das Mainzer Becken' (1883), 'Geologie von Afrika' (1893), 'Geologie von Deutschland und der angrenzenden Gebieta' (1887 - 1892), 'Geologische Karte des Deutschen Reiches in 27 Blättern' (1894 - 1897), 'Die Einheit und die Ursachen der diluvialen Eiszeit in den Alpen' (1914), and many others. To evaluate his merits he was appointed secret court secretary and secret supreme mining counsellor.
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