Casimir Mösch

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Casimir Mösch (born February 15, 1827 in Frick AG ; † August 18, 1898 in Zurich ) was a Swiss geologist and paleontologist .

Live and act

After attending secondary school in Rheinfelden and the Aarau Cantonal School , Casimir Mösch began training as a pharmacist with positions as an apprentice and assistant in Lucerne, St. Immer, Pruntrut and Basel. During the subsequent studies in Munich, under the influence of Franz von Kobell , he gave up the pharmacist profession and turned to the natural sciences. After returning from Munich, from 1853 he tried trading fossils and lithographic stones that he had found on the Bözberg and, after this deposit proved to be insufficient, also with Solnhofen stone , which however did not bring him any success. In 1855 he married and lived first in Effingen , later in Brugg . In 1857 Mösch submitted a geological map of the canton of Aargau (1:50 000) to the natural scientists' meeting in Basel .

In 1864 he moved to Zurich, where he came to the Polytechnic through Arnold Escher von der Linth , with whom he was on friendly terms and who was his teacher . He supported him in geological field work and became a conservator at the paleontological-geological collection . In 1866 he was appointed director of the zoological collection of higher animals at the Polytechnic by the Swiss school board . From 1868 to 1874 he was a private lecturer at the University of Zurich , but because of his weak voice he had great difficulty attending lectures. In 1872 he received his doctorate in Jena. In 1887 he showed the relationship between the Japanese giant salamander and the "poor sinner" described by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer . In 1889 he traveled to Sumatra to expand the collection, about which he published a travel report in 1897: To and from the pepper country , pictures and natural history sketches of Sumatra .

He went on excursions in the Aargau Jura with geologist Urban Schlönbach, among others . His book on the stratigraphy of the Aargau Jura from 1867 became his main work.

Some of the stratigraphic names he introduced, such as "cheek layers", "bathing layers" and "wetting layers" as well as "birmen peat layers" and "effinger layers" are z. Some of them are still valid today (example: "Effingen Member") . He bequeathed his extensive fossil collection to the Natural History Museum in Bern .

Memberships

  • 1854 member of the Swiss Society for Natural Research

Fonts

  • The Flötz Mountains in the canton of Aargau. New memoranda of the Swiss Natural Research Society 15, Basel 1857
  • Geological description of the Aargau Jura and the northern areas of the Canton of Zurich. Geol. Map of Switzerland, IV Lief., Commission at J. Dalp, Bern 1867.
  • Geological descriptions of the surroundings of Brugg with maps and profiles. Zürcher & Furrer, Zurich 1867
  • The Jura in the Alps of Eastern Switzerland. Dissertation to obtain the doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Jena, Zürcher & Furrer, Zurich 1872
  • Geological description of the limestone and slate formations in the cantons of Appenzell, St. Gallen, Glarus and Schwyz. Commission at J. Dalp (K. Schmid), Bern 1881.
  • Geological guide through the Alps passes and valleys of Central Switzerland. Raustein, Zurich 1897.

literature

  • A. Baltzer: Casimir Mösch: 1827–1898 . In: Negotiations of the Swiss Natural Research Society . 82, 1899, pp. IX-XIX.
  • Adolf Hartmann: Casimir Mösch (1827–1898). In: Argovia , annual journal of the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau, vol. 68–69, 1958, p. 549 ( digitized version ).
  • Max Oettli : Earth history of the area around Wettingen. In: History of the community of Wettingen. 1978.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Oettli: Geological history of the area around Wettingen. In: History of the community of Wettingen. 1978. p. 518 ff.
  2. ↑ The Flötz Mountains in the canton of Aargau. New memoranda of the Swiss Society for Natural Research 15, Basel 1857, p. 55
  3. ^ Lithostratigraphic Lexicon of Switzerland (strati.ch) - Effingen-Member

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personal data
SURNAME Mösch, Casimir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss geologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Frick AG
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1898
Place of death Zurich