Carl Wilhelm Casimir Fuchs

The mausoleum of CWC Fuchs in the main cemetery in Mannheim .

Carl Wilhelm Casimir Fuchs (born September 15, 1837 in Mannheim , † July 26, 1886 in Karlsruhe ) was a German geologist , mineralogist and botanist . From 1876 he was an associate professor for geology at the University of Heidelberg .

Life

His parents were Friedrich Fuchs and Caroline Luise Juliane geb. Dyckerhoff (1809-1872). During his studies he became a member of the Schwarzburgbund - Association of Burschenschaft Germania Göttingen in the winter semester of 1857/58 .

His testamentary donation of 20,000 gold marks (purchasing power 2011: approx. € 350,000) was earmarked for the city of Mannheim for the construction of the later Lower Luisenpark , the oldest part of today's large park. He set the same amount for the construction of his mausoleum.

In his honor there is a boulder in the Lower Luisenpark with the text: “Prof. Dr. Carl Wilhelm Casimir Fuchs, natural scientist, founder of the foundation for the Luisenpark, 1837 - 1886 ”.

The inscription on his honorary grave in the mausoleum in Mannheim's main cemetery reads: “To the honored fellow citizen resting here, Professor Dr. Karl Wilh. Kasimir Fuchs keeps grateful memories of 'The City of Mannheim'.

Publications

The volcanic phenomena of the earth, winter, Leipzig 1865
Instructions for determining the minerals, Heidelberg, editions of 1868, 1875, 1890 and 1898
- 3rd edition / reworked, possibly u. exp. by Aug. Streng. - Giessen: Ricker, 1890. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
The artificially represented minerals, classified according to G. Rose 's Krystallo-chemical mineral systems: Haarlem (Holland), De Erven Loosjes, 1872 (an award document awarded by the Dutch Society of Sciences in Haarlem on May 20, 1871)

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The Library, Curtis Schuh's Biobibliogarphy of Mineralogy
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The cemeteries in Mannheim, signposts to the graves of well-known Mannheim personalities: Mannheim 1992.

Individual evidence

^ Leopold Petri (ed.): Directory of members of the Schwarzburgbund. Fourth edition, Bremerhaven 1908, p. 149, no. 140.

personal data
SURNAME	Fuchs, Carl Wilhelm Casimir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German geologist, mineralogist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 15, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH	July 26, 1886
Place of death	Karlsruhe

[1] Leopold Petri (ed.): Directory of members of the Schwarzburgbund. Fourth edition, Bremerhaven 1908, p. 149, no. 140.