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DE. JOSEF FELIX POMPECKJ, professor of geology and palaeontology in the University, of Berlin, and Geheimer Bergrat, died on July 8, while still in the midst of his activities. He was born in East Prussia on May 10, 1867, and graduated as Ph.D. at Königsberg in 1890, with a thesis on Trilobites. He had a varied official career, beginning in 1891 as assistant in the geological institute at Tübingen, and removing two years later to Munich, where he was both a curator in the Palæontological Museum and privat-docent in the University. In 1904 he became professor in the Agricultural Academy at Hohenheim, and in 1907 he was promoted to the professorship of geology first in the University of Königsberg and then in the University of Göttingen, where he followed A. von Koenen. He remained at Göttingen for six years, and in 1913 returned to Tübingen as professor in succession to E. Koken. In 1917, on the retirement of his old teacher, W. Branca, he was appointed professor in the University of Berlin, and in 1925–26 he served his term as rector of the University.
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Prof. J. F. Pompeckj. Nature 126, 319–320 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126319a0
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