Koenigswald, GHRvon (English spelling) KoenigswaldGHRvon

Japanese: Koenigswald,G.H.R.von(英語表記)KoenigswaldGHRvon
Koenigswald, GHRvon (English spelling) KoenigswaldGHRvon

...German-born paleontologist and anthropologist. He studied paleontology at the University of Munich, and in 1931 joined the Geological Survey in Bandung, where he engaged in paleontological surveys in various parts of Java. From 1931 to 1933, he participated in the excavation of the Solo Man ruins in Ngandong, and with the cooperation of local collectors, he worked to collect Pleistocene hominin fossils, discovering mandible B of Pithecanthropus, skulls II, III, and IV, and the mandible of Meganthropus. He also bought keels and dragon teeth from Chinese medicine shops in Bandung and Hong Kong, and among them he discovered a molar of a huge extinct ape, which he named Gigantopithecus blacki. ...

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…ドイツ生れの古生物学・人類学者。ミュンヘン大学で古生物を学び,1931年,バンドンの地質調査所に入って,ジャワ各地の古生物学的調査に従事した。31年から33年にかけて,ガンドンのソロ人遺跡の発掘に参加したのを皮切りに,現地人コレクターの協力をえて更新世人類化石の収集につとめ,ピテカントロプスの下顎骨B,頭骨II,III,IV,メガントロプス下顎骨などを続々と発見した。またバンドンや香港の漢方薬店で,いわゆる竜骨,竜歯を買い集め,そのなかから巨大な絶滅類人猿の大臼歯を発見し,ギガントピテクス・ブラッキと命名して発表した。…

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