Fred Ruhe
Well-known member
OBITUARY
(By the president of SAPE from newsletter 37 for 2023)
Angelika Hesse (1955-2023)
Only aged 67, the German Geologist and Paleontologist Angelika Hesse (*6th November 1955, †16th June 2023) passed away suddenly and unexpectedly this summer.
After her studies of Geology and Paleontology, Angelika made a PhD thesis on fossil birds from the famous Eocene locality Messel (Germany) at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, supervised by the then ornithological curator Dieter Stefan Peters. She intensively studied the Messel rails and created the family Messelornithidae Hesse, 1988. She presented her research on the Messel rails at the 1988 SAPE meeting in Los Angeles and on the avifauna of the Steinheim Basin (Germany) at the 1992 SAPE meeting in Frankfurt.
After some further publications in paleornithology, in 1991 she obtained a position as a curator for the geoscience department in the Museum für Naturkunde und Vorgeschichte in Dessau, Germany. For 30 years she invested all her forces into special exhibitions, the geoscience collection, the organization of field trips, series of lectures, and swap meets of fossils and minerals for people interested in paleontology and geology. Even after her retirement in 2021, she was intensively committed to geoscience and its transfer of knowledge. Unfortunately, her early and sudden death stopped these activities.
Papers on fossil birds by Angelika Hesse
Elmar P. J. Heizmann & Angelika Hesse, 1995
Die Mittelmiozänen Vogel- und Säugetierfaunen des Nördlinger Ries (MN6) und des Steinheimer Beckens (MN7) - Ein Vergleich
Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 181: 171-185
Angelika Hesse, 1988
Die †Messelornithidae-Ein Neue Familie der Kranichartigen (Aves: Gruiformes: Rhynocheti) aus dem Tertiär Europas und Nordamerikas
Journal für Ornithologie 129: 83-95
Angelika Hesse, 1988
Taxonomie der Ordnung Gruiformes (Aves) nach Ostologischen Morphologischen Kriterien, unter Besonderer Berücksichtigung der + Messelornithidae Hesse 1988.
Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 107: 235-247
Angelika Hesse, 1989
Die Messelrallen - Rekonstrution eines Lebensbild
Natur und Museum 119: 110-112
Angelika Hesse, 1990
Die Beschreibung der Messelornithidae (Aves: Gruiformes: Rhynocheti) aus dem Alttertiär Europas und Nordamerikas
Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 128: 1-178
Angelika Hesse, 1992
A New Species of Messelornis (Aves: Messelornithidae) from the Middle Eocene Green River Formation
in Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring Pierce Brodkorb. ed: Jonathan J. Becker
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science series No 36: 171-178
Angelika Hesse, 1997
>> Messelrallen <<
In: Messel - Ein Pompeji der Palaeontologie (Von Koenigswald, W. & Storch, G. (Hrsg.)
Thorbecke, Sigmaringen pg. 120-121
Erich Weber & Angelika Hesse, 1995
The Systematic Position of Aptornis, a Flightless Bird from New Zealand
Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 181: 293-301
Fossil bird taxa described by Angelika Hesse:
Ordo GRUIFORMES C. L. J. L. Bonaparte, 1854
Subordo EURYPYGAE Fürbringer, 1888.
Infraordo EURYPYGIDES Sibley, Ahlquist et Monroe, 1988.
Familia Messelornithidae Hesse, 1988
Genus Messelornis Hesse, 1988
Messelornis nearctica Hesse, 1992
Messelornis cristata Hesse, 1988
Fred
(By the president of SAPE from newsletter 37 for 2023)
Angelika Hesse (1955-2023)
Only aged 67, the German Geologist and Paleontologist Angelika Hesse (*6th November 1955, †16th June 2023) passed away suddenly and unexpectedly this summer.
After her studies of Geology and Paleontology, Angelika made a PhD thesis on fossil birds from the famous Eocene locality Messel (Germany) at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, supervised by the then ornithological curator Dieter Stefan Peters. She intensively studied the Messel rails and created the family Messelornithidae Hesse, 1988. She presented her research on the Messel rails at the 1988 SAPE meeting in Los Angeles and on the avifauna of the Steinheim Basin (Germany) at the 1992 SAPE meeting in Frankfurt.
After some further publications in paleornithology, in 1991 she obtained a position as a curator for the geoscience department in the Museum für Naturkunde und Vorgeschichte in Dessau, Germany. For 30 years she invested all her forces into special exhibitions, the geoscience collection, the organization of field trips, series of lectures, and swap meets of fossils and minerals for people interested in paleontology and geology. Even after her retirement in 2021, she was intensively committed to geoscience and its transfer of knowledge. Unfortunately, her early and sudden death stopped these activities.
Papers on fossil birds by Angelika Hesse
Elmar P. J. Heizmann & Angelika Hesse, 1995
Die Mittelmiozänen Vogel- und Säugetierfaunen des Nördlinger Ries (MN6) und des Steinheimer Beckens (MN7) - Ein Vergleich
Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 181: 171-185
Angelika Hesse, 1988
Die †Messelornithidae-Ein Neue Familie der Kranichartigen (Aves: Gruiformes: Rhynocheti) aus dem Tertiär Europas und Nordamerikas
Journal für Ornithologie 129: 83-95
Angelika Hesse, 1988
Taxonomie der Ordnung Gruiformes (Aves) nach Ostologischen Morphologischen Kriterien, unter Besonderer Berücksichtigung der + Messelornithidae Hesse 1988.
Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 107: 235-247
Angelika Hesse, 1989
Die Messelrallen - Rekonstrution eines Lebensbild
Natur und Museum 119: 110-112
Angelika Hesse, 1990
Die Beschreibung der Messelornithidae (Aves: Gruiformes: Rhynocheti) aus dem Alttertiär Europas und Nordamerikas
Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 128: 1-178
Angelika Hesse, 1992
A New Species of Messelornis (Aves: Messelornithidae) from the Middle Eocene Green River Formation
in Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring Pierce Brodkorb. ed: Jonathan J. Becker
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science series No 36: 171-178
Angelika Hesse, 1997
>> Messelrallen <<
In: Messel - Ein Pompeji der Palaeontologie (Von Koenigswald, W. & Storch, G. (Hrsg.)
Thorbecke, Sigmaringen pg. 120-121
Erich Weber & Angelika Hesse, 1995
The Systematic Position of Aptornis, a Flightless Bird from New Zealand
Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 181: 293-301
Fossil bird taxa described by Angelika Hesse:
Ordo GRUIFORMES C. L. J. L. Bonaparte, 1854
Subordo EURYPYGAE Fürbringer, 1888.
Infraordo EURYPYGIDES Sibley, Ahlquist et Monroe, 1988.
Familia Messelornithidae Hesse, 1988
Genus Messelornis Hesse, 1988
Messelornis nearctica Hesse, 1992
Messelornis cristata Hesse, 1988
Fred
