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Henryk Bronislaw Stenzel (7 February 1899 in Pabianice – 5 September 1980 in Houston), was an American paleontologist of Polish and Jewish descent.[1]
Biographical data
[edit]Biography
[edit]Born Henryk Sztencel, he studied at the University of Breslau, where the administration forced him to change the spelling of his name.[2][3] In 1922 he got a doctoral degree on the basis of a thesis prepared under Hans Cloos. In 1925 he emigrated to the USA, where in 1929 he married Elsie née Brodbeck.[4] He worked on Texas A&M University (then Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas), University of Texas at Austin,[5] University of Houston, Rice University, and Louisiana State University.[2] He retired in 1977 because of health issues;[4] he died after a long illness.[2]
Functions and dignities
[edit]- President of the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists (1949–50)[2]
- President of the Paleontological Society (1955–56)[2]
- Officiale delegate of the USA to the International Geological Congress (Mexico City, 1956)[2]
- Honorary member of the Gulf Coast Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists[6]
Scientific achievements
[edit]In the USA Stenzel worked mainly on Tertiary paleontology, including speciation in fossil bivalves.[7] He described several new taxa of fossil bivalves.[8] His main achievement is a complete taxonomic revision of fossil oysters, published as a separate volume of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology (volume N-3, 1971).[9]
Eponymy
[edit]Stenzelia MacNeil, 1954,[10] a genus (or subgenus) of Eocene bivalves, Stenzeloceras Whetstone & Teichert, 1978, a genus of Cretaceous nautiloids, and a few species[8] have been named in his honor.
Notes
[edit]- ↑ Hoppe, Andreas; Hoppe, Dorothee (2018-03-01). "Geowissenschaftler und ihr Judentum im deutschen Sprachraum des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts". Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften. 169 (1): 73–95. Bibcode:2018ZDGG..169...73H. doi:10.1127/zdgg/2018/0154.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Association, Texas State Historical. "Henryk Stenzel: Pioneer in Paleontology and Stratigraphy". Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved 2025-08-19.
- ↑ "Profesor Stenzel - Wyłowione z "sieci" - www.um.pabianice.pl - Oficjalny portal". um.pabianice.pl. Retrieved 2025-08-19.
- 1 2 Young, Keith (1982). "Memorial: Henryk Bronislaw Stenzel (1899-1980)". 66 (2): 230–231.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ↑ "Henryk B. Stenzel (1899-1980) | Jackson School Museum of Earth History". www.jsg.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2025-08-19.
- ↑ "GCSSEPM Honorary Member". www.gcssepm.org. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
- ↑ H. B. Stenzel (March 1949). "Successional Speciation in Paleontology: The Case of the Oysters of the Sellaeformis Stock". Evolution. 3 (1): 34–50. Bibcode:1949Evolu...3...34S. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.1949.tb00003.x. PMID 18115116. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
- 1 2 "Shellers From the Past and the Present - Stenzel, Henryk Bronislaw". www.conchology.be.
- ↑ Henryk B. Stenzel (1971). Raymond Cecil Moore, Curt Teichert, Lavon McCormick, Roger B. Williams (ed.). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part N: Bivalvia, Volume 3: Oysters. Boulder (Colo.)–Lawrence (Kan.): Geological Society of America & The University of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-8137-3026-4.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link) - ↑ F. Stearns MacNeil (1954). "Stenzelia, New Name for Trinacriella MacNeil". Journal of Paleontology. 28 (2): 217.