Carl Schmidt (geologist)
Carl Schmidt , also Karl Schmidt , (born June 23, 1862 in Brugg , † June 21, 1923 in Basel ) was a Swiss geologist .
Life
Schmidt came from a family who immigrated to Basel from Germany after the events of the revolution of 1848. His father was a pharmacist in Basel. Schmidt attended school in Aarau and studied from 1882 first in Geneva and from 1883 in Strasbourg geology and related sciences, among others with Albert Heim , Emil Cohen , Hugo Bücking and Ernst Wilhelm Benecke . In 1886 he received his doctorate in Strasbourg (on some porphyries from the Central Alps), then was an assistant in Freiburg im Breisgau and completed his habilitation in 1888 in nearby Basel while he was still in Freiburg. In 1890 he became associate professor for geology and in 1891 full professor for geology and mineralogy in Basel, where he founded the mineralogical-geological institute. Carl Emanuel Burckhardt studied with Schmidt. In 1906 he was rector of the university.
Schmidt dealt with mineral resources in Switzerland (and beyond in Spain, France, Germany, Romania, Poland and Russia) and published a geological map of the mineral raw materials of Switzerland in 1917 , the explanations of which appeared in 1920. Encouraged by Hugo Bücking, he and his students examined the geology and oil deposits in Indonesia. He wrote engineering geological reports on important Swiss tunnel construction projects such as the Simplon tunnel , Lötschberg tunnel , Rickentunnel and Weissenstein tunnel and published on the alpine geology in the Simplon area.
His son Georg Schmidt was an art historian, Hans Schmidt an architect and politician.
literature
- Barbara Sperling: Schmidt, Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 169 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Published in Geological-Petrographic Messages about some porphyries of the Central Alps ; New yearbook f. Mineral. Geology, hatchet. 4, 1886, pp. 388-472
- ↑ On the geology of the Simplon region and the tectonics of the Swiss Alps, in: Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 9, 1907, pp. 484-584
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmidt, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brugg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 21, 1923 |
| Place of death | Basel |