Reinhold Lotze

Reinhold Lotze (1887–1951) is best known today for Jahreszahlen der Erdgeschichte, first published in 1922. The book was issued by the Kosmos society in Stuttgart and presents geological time and the history of the Earth in a style aimed at interested non-specialists.

Surviving catalog and library records also connect him with other popular-science writing, including Zwillinge. Einführung in die Zwillingsforschung from 1937, and with at least one geological paper published in 1930. Taken together, those records suggest a writer with a strong grounding in the natural sciences who worked to explain scientific subjects clearly for a broader readership.

Reliable biographical details beyond his birth and death years are limited in the sources I could confirm here, so this overview stays close to the record. What stands out most is his role as an accessible interpreter of science at a time when publishers and learned societies were trying to bring modern scientific knowledge to a wider public.