Bernhard Turley

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Bernhard Turley (* 1831 in Przechowo near Schwetz , Prussia ; † December 25, 1908 in Oelsnitz / Erzgeb .; Full name Bernhard Friedrich Hermann Turley) was a German mining official .

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Turley was the son of a mill and landowner. After the first school years he attended high school in Bromberg from 1845 . From 1852 he studied at the University of Berlin . At first he was interested in the philosophy faculty, but later devoted himself to the natural science and law subjects. He was particularly interested in metallurgy and mining subjects. In 1854 he moved to the Bergakademie Freiberg in Saxony, where he a. a. Mineralogy, chemistry, physics, mathematics, mine cutting, mining engineering, deposit theory and many practical courses he completed with an engineering degree. In Freiberg he also met his future wife Eleonore Anna May, whom he married in Dresden in 1860.

His professional career first took him to coal mines in Baden , then to Moravia and from 1860 to Motala in Sweden. Here he met Alfred Nobel in 1863 , for whom he worked temporarily, reported on his work in specialist journals and with whom he was in contact for years. In particular, correspondence with Turley to recognize Nobel's patents is known. From 1872 he was a mountain administrator at the coal industry association Vereinsglück in Oelsnitz in the Ore Mountains in order to develop the presumed deposit. This activity was ended in 1879 (other sources also speak of 1881) and Turley became a timber merchant in Oelsnitz at what is now Kammerrat-Beck-Straße 2, where he built a house for his family for this purpose. Eight children were born in the marriage of Eleonore and Bernhard Turley. The eldest son, Axel Turley, became a telegraph operator in Dar es Salaam .

Turley's special achievements include the invention of the gout hat for blast furnaces to improve the discharge of gases, as well as extensive publications on the mining industry of his time, but also on Nobel's improved explosive powder.

In Oelsnitz, a street called "Turleyring" and the municipal high school bear his name in his memory.

literature

  • Günter Hübsch, Ullrich Winter: Oelsnitzer Lexikon. Volume 1, self-published by the Oelsnitz city administration, 2008, DNB 100987778X , p. 14.
  • Emil Junghanß: Chronicle of Ölsnitz in the Erzgebirge , self-published, Ölsnitz i. E. 1901, p. 113

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] ./Brief of Alfred Bernhard Nobel Bernhard Turley, accessed on March 4, 2019
  2. ↑ homepage Turleyoberschule , accessed on May 30, 2016th

literature

  • Hans L. Richter: Bernhard Turley - a graduate of the Bergakademie Freiberg. His life path, his activity in the mountain field, his "friendship" with Alfred Nobel . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 56, 2010, Issue 3, pp. 195–203.
personal data
SURNAME Turley, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Turley, Bernhard Friedrich Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mining officer
DATE OF BIRTH 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Przechowo near Schwetz , Prussia
DATE OF DEATH December 1908
Place of death Oelsnitz / Erzgeb.