Schutz, Heinrich
Entry updated 28 November 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1888-1945) German biologist and author of Der sterbende Gletscher ["The Dying Glacier"] (1928; trans Frank Barnes as When Mammoths Roamed the Frozen Earth 1929), a Prehistoric SF tale describing in melodramatic terms the end of the last Ice Age, with mammoths and other stranger Monsters battling each other for food, and a Lost Race. Schutz's underlying thesis, that the ice departed convulsively, has been disproven. His presentation of early Homo sapiens killing off the larger beasts in huge numbers adheres more closely to present assumptions about this point in the Origin of Man. [JC]
Heinrich Schutz
born Pforzheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire: 1888
died 1945
works
- Der sterbende Gletscher ["The Dying Glacier"] (Leipzig, Germany: Haberland, 1928) [binding unknown/]
- When Mammoths Roamed the Frozen Earth (London: Jonathan Cape, 1929) [trans by Frank Barnes of the above: hb/uncredited]
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