OTTO C. VON SCHLICHTEN

THE OHIO JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 51(4): 207, July, 1951

Professor Otto C. Von Schlichten, University of Cincinnati, was made a member of the Geology Section of the Academy in 1928 and advanced to Fellowship in 1929. Professor Von Schlichten was born in Cincinnati on July 19, 1886, and was graduated from the University of Cincinnati with the A.B. degree in 1911. He pursued graduate work at the University of Wisconsin during the years 1912 and 1913 and also at the University of Michigan in the summers of 1920 and 1921. In 1911 he was appointed Instructor in Geology and German in the University of Cincinnati. From 1913 to 1915 he served as geologist for the Bureau of Geology and Mines of the State of Missouri. In 1915 and 1916 he was Instructor of Geology in the University of Cincinnati. In 1916 and 1917 he was Instructor of Geology at Lehigh University and in 1917 he returned to Cincinnati as Assistant Professor of Geology in which rank he taught until 1940. At that time he was advanced to the rank of Associate Professor which position he retained to his death. Professor Von Schlichten was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America, and the A.A.A.S. and a member of Alpha Delta chapter of Sigma Gamma Epsilon. His field of study and interest was geology, especially mineralogy and petrography. He published a treatise on "Landslides in the Vicinity of Cincinnati" in the "The Compass" of March, 1935. In 1914 he married Miss Anna Erlwein and to this union were born Captain Harold C. Von Schlichten and Margaret Von S. Myers (Mrs. Eugene F. Myers). On October 4, 1950, Professor Von Schlichten suffered a fatal heart attack and was buried in the Vine Street Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.