Christian Ernst Weiss

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Christian Ernst Weiss , according to other sources Weiss , (* May 12, 1833 in Eilenburg , † July 4, 1890 in Schkeuditz ) was a German mineralogist , geologist and phytopalaeontologist . He is the nephew of the mineralogist Christian Samuel Weiss . Its botanical author's abbreviation is " CEWeiss ".

Life

Christian Ernst Weiß was the son of the Eilenburg ironmonger Friedrich Weiß and of Charlotte Auguste nee. Schmidt. First he attended the boys' school in Eilenburg. Since both parents died before he was ten years old, relatives from Merseburg took over the upbringing of the gifted student. After successfully completing high school in Merseburg, Weiss began studying geology and mineralogy at the University of Halle in 1854, and one year later moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , where he taught among others Heinrich Ernst Beyrich , Gustav Rose , Carl Ritter and his uncle Christian Samuel Weiss was taught. Even before his doctorate, he acquired his teaching qualification (“pro facultate legendi”) at the University of Berlin in 1858. In 1859 he was about his work Concerning the crystallographic development of the quartz system and crystallographic developments in general at the University Hall to Dr. phil. PhD.

In 1860, Weiß followed a call to teach at the mountain school in Saarbrücken . During his seven years teaching activity in Saarbrücken, he dealt with geological research in the “Palatinate-Saarbrückner coal mountains and with phytopalaeontological studies”. As a phytopalaeontologist in particular , he achieved groundbreaking research results during this time. 1868 White was appointed in Bonn as a member of the Geological Survey and was moved to the Rhine, where he joined as a lecturer for mineralogy and geology at the University of Bonn habilitated .

After Ferdinand Zirkel left for Leipzig , Weiß was appointed full professor of mineralogy, geognosy and geology at the University of Kiel . However, Weiss made a different decision, took up the professorship for mineralogy at the Bergakademie Berlin in 1872 and became a regional geologist in Berlin. In addition to the geological survey of the land, which was accompanied by a corresponding journalistic activity in the form of numerous maps and explanations, Weiss continued to work in the field of paleontology . His focus was on the systematic recording of organic remains and the determination of their relationship to still living forms. By determining their geological distribution in the rock layers, clues should be obtained in order to identify structures of the same and unequal ages. With the four volumes of the contributions to fossil flora (1888) he left a comprehensive work on his research work. In 1882 he became a member of the Leopoldina .

On July 4, 1890, Weiss died at the age of 57 in Schkeuditz near Leipzig after a long illness. Parts of his estate are now in the special paleobotanical library at the Museum für Naturkunde Chemnitz and in the teaching and research collection at the Technical University of Berlin .

Fonts

  • About the crystallographic development of the quartz system and about crystallographic developments in general , Phil. Diss., HW Schmidt, Halle (Saale) 1859
  • The minerals of the Freiberg veins: E. Weiss. Preceded and provided with comments by B. von Cotta , 1860
  • About Voltzia and other plants of the colorful sandstone between the lower Saar and the Rhine. New yearbook for mineralogy, geology and palaeontology, year 1864, 279 - 294, panel V, Stuttgart 1864
  • Contributions to the knowledge of feldspar formation and application to the formation of quartz trachyte and quartz porphyry , 1866
  • Accompanying words to the geognostic overview map of the coal-bearing Saar-Rhine area , 1868
  • Structure of the Triassic in Saarbrücken. New yearbook for mineralogy, geology and palaeontology, year 1869, 215 - 219, Stuttgart 1869
  • Fossil flora of the youngest coal formation and the Rothliegend in the Saar-Rhine area: along with 20 panels and text figures , 1869
  • About Anomopteris Mougeoti. New yearbook for mineralogy, geology and palaeontology, year 1871, 363 - 368, Stuttgart 1871
  • The occurrence of small shell remains from the lower red sandstone from Dürrenberg, Province of Saxony. Journal of the German Geological Society, XXVII, 710–712, Berlin 1875
  • Hard coal calamari: with special consideration of their fructifications , Neumann, 1876
  • On the development of fossil flora in the geological periods , 1878
  • Atlas of 3 lithographic plates for a treatise on the flora of the Rothliegende from Wünschendorf near Lauban in Silesia , 1879
  • The laws of crystallization since Ch. S. Weiß, in particular the doctrine of hemiëdrie, discussed at Diamant , 1880
  • On the vertical distribution of coal plants , 1881
  • The coal-bearing layers near Ballenstedt on the northern edge of the Harz Mountains , AW Schade's Buchdruckerei, 1882
  • About some plant remains from the Rubengrube near Neurode in Nieder-Schliesen , 1884
  • On the flora of the oldest layers of the Harz , 1884
  • Petrographic contributions from the northern Thuringian Forest , 1884
  • About a red sandstone sigillaria and its closest relatives. Yearbook of the Royal Prussian State Geological Institute and Mining Academy in Berlin for the year 1885, 356 - 361, Berlin 1886
  • The sigillaries of the Prussian coal regions. - I. The group of favularia , Simon Schropp'sche Hof-Landkartenhandlung (JH Neumann), Berlin 1887, digitized
  • Contributions to the fossil flora I – IV , 1888
  • Questionable lepidodendron remains in the Rothliegende and younger strata , AW Schade's Buchdruckerei, 1889
  • Explanations on sheet Ludweiler - edition 17 of Geologische Specialkarte von Elsass-Lothringen / Ed. By the Commission for the geological investigation of Alsace-Lorraine , with H. Grebe and Leopold van Werveke , Strassburger Druckerei und Verlagsanstalt, Strasbourg 1891 (published posthumously )
  • Explanations to Blatt Lubeln - Edition 24 of Geologische Specialkarte von Elsass-Lothringen, published by the Commission for the geological investigation of Alsace-Lorraine , with H. Grebe and Leopold van Werveke, Strassburger Druckerei und Verlagsanstalt, Strasbourg 1894? (published posthumously)
  • Explanatory notes on Bliesbrücken sheet - Edition 27 of Geologische Specialkarte von Elsass-Lothringen, published by the Commission for the geological survey of Alsace-Lorraine , with H. Grebe and Leopold van Werveke, Strassburger Druckerei und Verlagsanstalt, Strasbourg 1891 (published posthumously )
  • Explanations to sheet Wolmünster - Edition 28 of Geologische Specialkarte von Elsass-Lothringen, published by the Commission for the geological survey of Alsace-Lorraine , with H. Grebe and Leopold van Werveke, Strassburger Druckerei und Verlagsanstalt, Strasbourg 1891 (published posthumously )
  • Explanations on sheet Roppweiler - edition 29 of Geologische Specialkarte von Elsass-Lothringen, edited by the Commission for the geological investigation of Alsace-Lorraine , with H. Grebe and Leopold van Werveke, Strassburger Druckerei und Verlagsanstalt, Strasbourg 1891 (published posthumously )
  • Explanations to Blatt Bitsch - Edition 39 of Geologische Specialkarte von Elsass-Lothringen, published by the Commission for the geological investigation of Alsace-Lorraine , with H. Grebe and Leopold van Werveke, Strassburger Druckerei und Verlagsanstalt, Strasbourg 1891 (published posthumously )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Professor Dr. phil. Christian Ernst Weiss in The Personalities of Eilenburg , page 119 ff., Books on Demand , Norderstedt 2012
  2. ^ Wilhelm von Gümbel:  White, Christian Ernst . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 562 f.
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. page 5  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ifg.uni-kiel.de
  4. ↑ Member entry by Ernst Weiss at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 19, 2015.
  5. ↑ http://www.naturkunde-chemnitz.de/index.php?id=natur&pg=spezialbibo
  6. ↑ http://www.universitaetssammlungen.de/person/1366
personal data
SURNAME Weiss, Christian Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES White, serious; White, Christian Ernst; Weiss, Ernst; CEWeiss (botanical author abbreviation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist, mineralogist and paleobotanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Eilenburg
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1890
Place of death Schkeuditz