Carl Amandus Kühn

Carl Amandus Kühn (* 1783 in Dresden , † March 29, 1848 in Freiberg ) was a German geologist , mountain commissioner and advocate of Neptunism .

Life

He first studied from 1800 at the Freiberg Mining Academy and during this time was involved in the geognostic survey of Saxony under the direction of Abraham Gottlob Werner . After a job as a mountain sworn in Annaberg , he volunteered for the allied troops during the Napoleonic Wars . From 1816 the head driver Kühn received an appointment as assistant teacher and assistant to Werner at the Bergakademie Freiberg and began to build up a deposit collection.

After Werner's death, on June 26, 1818, he became Professor of Mining Art and Geognosy , at the same time Friedrich Mohs from Graz was appointed Professor of Oryctognosy and the curator of the Werner Collection, Ludwig Gustav Ferdinand Köhler , was appointed Mining Academy Inspector.

Kühn headed the work on the production of a geological map of the Kingdom of Saxony until 1834 and then moved to the Oberbergamt in Freiberg as a mountain ridge . The revision of the map was carried out by Carl Friedrich Naumann and Bernhard von Cotta since 1835 and all the sheets were published by 1845.

In 1848 he had an accident while driving and fell into the 96 m deep tower courtyard shaft.

In his extensive Handbook of Geognosy , published in 1836 , he adhered to the Neptunistic doctrine , although this had already been largely refuted. When it was published, the work was rejected by experts as “yesterday's knowledge”.

He was Heinrich Gottlieb Kühn's brother .

Web links

• Literature by and about Carl Amandus Kühn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Carl Amandus Kühn in the Saxon Bibliography