Albin Castelli

Albin Benedict Castelli (born March 14, 1822 in Dresden , † October 31, 1892 in Großpriesen ) was a German miner, geologist, mineralogist and paleontologist.

Life

After attending grammar school in Dresden and Freiberg, Albin Castelli studied mining at the Freiberg Bergakademie from 1841 . In 1842 he became a member of the Corps Franconia Freiberg , where he was active together with the chemist Robert Richter . After 1845 he left the mining academy without a degree and began practical mining activities in the Bohemian Salesel near Großpriesen for the Saxon mining company Salesler Coal Union . There he rose to the position of mountain director. Under his leadership, the lignite underground mining there developed extremely successfully.

Castelli had an active role in researching the geology, mineralogy and palaeontology of the Bohemian Central Uplands by using his professional experience to support geologists such as Josef Emanuel Hibsch in their scientific work. He put on mineralogical and paleontological collections that received worldwide attention. Through his scientific collaboration with the Dresden paleontologist Hermann Engelhardt , he promoted phytopaleontological research into the North Bohemian tertiary sediment .

Awards

• Corresponding member of the Austrian Geological Society , the Geological Society of London and the geological societies in Germany, Russia and the USA
• Honorary member of the Austrian Geological Society
• Member of the Natural Science Society ISIS Dresden
• Corresponding member of the Scientific Community in Ústí nad Labem
• Name giver for the taxon Ilex castellii
• Namesake for the castellite , a type of titanite found in some phonolites of the Bohemian Central Uplands .

literature

• Miroslav Radoň: Albin Benedikt Castelli: from an Exilian Descendant to a Renowned Mining Administrator of Coal Mines in his Homeland . In: GeoLines , Volume 15, 2003, p. 200 ( digitized version )
• C. Schiffner: From the life of old Freiberg mountain students. E. Maukisch, Freiberg 1935, p. 323f.

Web links

• Muž, který se zapsal do dějin naší geologie Albin Benedikt Castelli (p. 5, photo of the tomb with exact date of birth and death)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The spelling Benedict instead of the Czech spelling Benedict results, for example, from the calendar for the Saxon mountain and hut man for the year 1843 . ( Digitized version) ( Memento from November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Corps list Corps Franconia in Freiberg, Saxony, March 5, 1838 to October 27, 1935, and Corps Franconia Fribergensis in Aachen since November 28, 1953, as of the summer semester 1985, p. 2, No. 21
3. ^ According to the calendar for the Saxon mountain and hut man for the year 1845 , he was still a student in Freiberg in 1845. ( Digitized ( Memento from November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ))