Adolf Gurlt
Friedrich Adolf Gurlt (born July 14, 1829 in Berlin ; † August 1, 1902 in Bonn ) was a German mining engineer and geologist .
Life
After graduating from high school in Easter 1849, Adolf Gurlt studied at the Berlin Köllnische Realgymnasium, later at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and at the Royal Saxon Mining Academy in Freiberg . During his training he stayed in Manchester , where he applied for a patent for a process for desilvering ores and received an English patent on October 10, 1850 for "an improved method of extracting silver from argentiferous minerals".
In 1855 he was awarded a doctorate in Berlin with his dissertation De ferri carburetis eorumque ad ferri crudi constitutionem relatione on May 10, 1855. phil. PhD .
Adolf Gurlt, who lived in Bonn from 1858, worked as a consulting engineer in Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Norway, Spain, North America and Mexico.
From 1858 to 1864 he edited the newspaper Der Berggeist , a newspaper for mining, metallurgy and industry , which appeared in Cologne from July 1, 1856, first every Tuesday and later every Tuesday and Friday.
In 1886, in the negotiations of the Natural History Association of the Prussian Rhineland, Westphalia and the Reg.-District Osnabrück, he announced a piece of iron from Wolfsegg that looked like artificially processed , which was allegedly found in several million years old brown coal and that after its determination that It is an iron meteorite, which subsequently became known nationwide as the Vöcklabrucker meteorite , Salzburg iron cube or Wolfsegg iron . The exhibit is now in the Heimathaus Vöcklabruck and, after several follow-up examinations, the majority of authors do not consider it to be a meteorite or prehistoric iron, but rather a modern piece of cast iron .
He was a member of the Natural History Association of the Prussian Rhineland and Westphalia .
Fonts
- Notes on the Recent Advances in the Copper Mill Process in England . Engelhardt, Freiberg 1852 ( digitized version )
- Overview of the pyrogenic artificial minerals, especially of the crystallized metallurgical products . Engelhardt, Freiberg 1857 ( digitized version )
- with N. von Egerstroem: The influence of the rotation on the deviation of the projectiles from their trajectory . Eisen, Cologne 1857 ( digitized version )
- Overview of the tertiary basin of the Lower Rhine . Bonn 1872 ( digitized version )
- The Darlington Rock Drill, a new drilling machine for operating mines, tunnels and quarries . Cohen, Bonn 1875 ( digitized version )
- Mining and metallurgy, a concise representation of the historical and artistic development of mining and metallurgy . Bädeker, Essen 1877 ( digitized version )
- with Moritz Ferdinand Gätzschmann : Collection of mining expressions . 2nd edition, Craz and Gerlach, Freiberg 1881 ( digitized version )
- A strange iron meteorite, a so-called holosiderite, in tertiary brown coal. In: Negotiations of the Natural History Association of the Prussian Rhineland, Westphalia and the Reg.-District Osnabrück, 43, Bonn 1886, pp. 188-189 ( digitized version )
literature
- Johann Christian Poggendorff : Biographical-literary concise dictionary for the history of the exact sciences . Volume 4, Section I, 1904, pp. 553–554 ( digitized version )
Web links
- Gurlt, Adolf in the CERL Thesaurus
- Literature by and about Adolf Gurlt in the bibliographic database WorldCat
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gurlt, Adolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gurlt, Adolph; Gurlt, Friedrich Adolf; Gurlt, Friedrich Adolph (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mining engineer and geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1829 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 1, 1902 |
| Place of death | Bonn |