Albrecht Reinhard Bernhardi

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Albrecht Reinhard Bernhardi (* 1797 in Ottrau ; † 1849 ) was a German geologist . He was a professor at what was then the Forestry Academy in Drei 30acker near Meiningen and the discoverer of the Pleistocene Fennoscan inland freezing .

In 1832 he put forward the thesis in an essay that Scandinavia and the entire lowlands up to the foothills of the German low mountain range were buried in the past under an "... immense sea of ​​ice". The basis of this bold vision was the work of Jens Esmark , who had established that the glaciers of Norway used to be much larger and reached as far as the sea coast, and by Johann Friedrich Hausmann on the boulders and boulders that were found throughout the north-central European lowlands and mainly originated in Scandinavia Attachments . Their origin in Scandinavia was known much earlier. He also saw support for his thesis in Franz Joseph Hugi's assumption that the glaciers in the Alps used to be much larger.

Although published in one of the most important magazine, the breakthrough work remained completely ignored, even after in 1844 with the discovery of glacial striations in the Hohburger mountains by Carl Friedrich Naumann proof has been furnished for the domestic icing. It was not until much later that his services were recognized when the Bernhardi Heights , a mountain range in the East Antarctic Coatsland , were named after him in 1971 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Albrecht Bernhardi: How did the rock fragments and debris from the north, which can be found in northern Germany and the neighboring countries, get to their current location? In: Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geognosy, Geology and Petrefactology. 3rd year. Heidelberg 1832. pp. 257-267 [1]
  2. ^ Jens Esmark: Bidrag til before Jordklode's history. In: Magazin for naturvidenskaberne. Born in 1824. Christiania (Grondahl) 1824. pp. 28–49. [2]
  3. ^ Jens Esmark: Remarks tending to explain the Geological History of the Earth. In: Edinburgh new philosophical journal. Volume 2. Edinburgh 1827. pp. 107–121 [3]
  4. ^ Johann Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann: De origine saxorum, per Germaniae septemtrionalis regiones arenosas dispersorum. In: Göttingische Scholars Ads. 151st and 152nd pieces. Göttingen (Huth) 1827. pp. 1497-1517. [4]
  5. ^ Georg Adolph von Winterfeld: From the fatherland of the Mecklenburg granite rock. In: Monthly by and for Mecklenburg. Volume 3. Schwerin 1790. pp. 475–478. [5]
  6. ↑ Von Arenswald: History of the Pomeranian and Mecklenburg Petrifications. In: The natural scientist. 5 pieces. Halle (Gebauer) 1775. pp. 145–168. [6]
  7. ^ Franz Joseph Hugi: Natural History Alpine Tour. Read to the natural research society in Solothurn. Solothurn (Amiet-Lutiger) / Leipzig (Fleischer) 1830. P. 328 ff. [7]
personal data
SURNAME Bernhardi, Albrecht Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Ottrau
DATE OF DEATH 1849