Friedrich Goldenberg
Carl Friedrich Goldenberg (born November 11, 1798 in Halzenberg near Wermelskirchen , † August 26, 1881 in Malstatt near Saarbrücken ) was a German paleobotanist and paleo- entomologist .
Goldenberg was the son of a factory owner, but was orphaned at an early age. He attended a private school in Jülich and stood out there for his mathematical talent. He was a teacher from 1815 and from 1826 a teacher at the mountain school in Saarbrücken. It was there that his interest in paleontology, especially fossil plants from coal mining, began. In 1829 he became an assistant teacher at the Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Saarbrücken and in 1836 a senior teacher for mathematics and physics. In 1873 he retired. Goldenberg had a doctorate (Dr. rer. Nat.).
He dealt with plant fossils and stratigraphy of the Carboniferous in Saarland and he was one of the first to describe the insect fossils of the Carboniferous in Saarland. After the early death of his wife in 1849, he was supported in this work by his daughter Johanna, who later married Wilhelm Barthold, the son of the historian Friedrich Wilhelm Barthold.
In 1852 he became a member of the Leopoldina . He was also active in the church as presbyter and district synodal of the Malstatt community and from 1848 to 1852 a member of the school committee of the Saarbrücken synod and from 1850 to 1855 a member of the synodal accounting commission.
Fonts
- Basic features of the geognostic conditions and the flora of the present and the past in the immediate vicinity of Saarbrücken, program of the Saarbrücken grammar school, 1835
- Flora saraepontana fossilis, The plant fossils of the coal mountains of Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken: Neumann'sche Buchhandlung, 1855 to 1862 (Issue 1, 1855, pp. 1-38, Issue 2, 1857, pp. 1-60, Issue 3, 1862, p . 1–47)
literature
- Journal for Saarland local history, Volume 1, 1951, pp. 93-103
- Karl-Heinz Josten: Goldenberg, Carl Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 604 ( digitized version ).
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| SURNAME | Goldenberg, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Goldenberg, Carl Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German paleobotanist and paleo-entomologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1798 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halzenberg near Wermelskirchen |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 26, 1881 |
| Place of death | Malstatt near Saarbrücken |