Albert von Reinach

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Albert Baron Reinach (born November 7, 1842 in Frankfurt am Main ; † January 12, 1905 ) was a German banker, geologist, paleontologist and patron of science.

Life

Albert von Reinach was born as the eldest son of the banker Adolph von Reinach . After attending the Hassel Institute , he studied natural sciences, geology and mining for two years at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic and for just as long at the Bergakademie . In 1860 he became a member of the Corps Franconia Freiberg . His academic teachers included Fridolin Sandberger , Theodor Petersen and Bernhard von Cotta .

To support his father, he joined his father's bank in 1861. In 1872 he became a partner. After the death of his father, he ran the bank from 1877 until it was sold to the Straßburger Allgemeine Elsässer Bank-Gesellschaft at the beginning of 1886, as a nervous problem prevented him from continuing business.

He turned to geology and in 1892 became an employee of the State Geological Institute. In the following years he geologically recorded the eastern Wetterau as well as the west and south sides of the Vogelsberg . In his research into the geology of the Taunus, which spanned many years, he was able to use the fossils he discovered to determine the Koch phyllites together with the lying arkose and conglomerate as the deepest Lower Devonian. He undertook numerous research trips, including to England, France, Russia and Syria. Scientifically, he came together with Hugo Bücking , Jules Gosselet and Charles Barrois .

In addition to his stratigraphic work, he was active in paleontology . He was considered a proven expert in the assessment of fossil turtles.

In the last years of his life he dealt with water production in the Taunus and supported Kronberg, Frankfurt, Homburg vor der Höhe, Königstein, Saalburg and Wiesbaden in this.

Von Reinach was one of the important patrons of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society in Frankfurt am Main. He made the construction of the Senckenberg Nature Museum possible through generous donations . He was the founder of the Reinach Prize of the Senckenberg Society, which has been awarded every two years since 1893 for work in the fields of geology, palaeontology and mineralogy in the wider Frankfurt area. His collection of prehistoric stone weapons from the Taunus landscape was bequeathed to the emperor in the Saalburg Museum .

Awards

Fonts

  • The Rothliegende in the Wetterau and its connection to the Saar-Nahe region , 1892
  • Turtle remains in the Mainz Tertiary Basin and in neighboring deposits of approximately the same age , 1900
  • Turtle remains from the Egyptian Tertiary , 1903
  • About the tunnels built for water extraction in the central and eastern Taunus , 1904

literature

  • Georg Friedrich Kinkelin : In memory of Dr. phil. Albert von Reinach . In: Report of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society in Frankfurt am Main 1905 , pp. 63–72 ( digitized version )
  • Directory of geological writings A. v. Reinachs . In: Report of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society in Frankfurt am Main 1905 , pp. 73–74 ( digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Corps list Corps Franconia in Freiberg, Saxony, March 5, 1838 to October 27, 1935, and Corps Franconia Fribergensis in Aachen since November 28, 1953, status summer semester 1985, p. 6
  2. ^ Report on the Senckenberg Natural Research Society in Frankfurt am Main from June 1895 to June 1896 , p. XVI
  3. ^ Patronage carved in stone (press release of the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research from November 27, 2012)
personal data
SURNAME Reinach, Albert von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reinach, Albert Baron von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker, geologist, paleontologist and patron of science
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1905