Daniel Häberle

Daniel Häberle

Daniel Häberle (born May 8, 1864 on the Daubenbornerhof in the municipality of Enkenbach ; † June 9, 1934 in Heidelberg ) was a German geologist, paleontologist and local history researcher from the Palatinate.

life and work

Häberle came from a family who immigrated to the Palatinate from the Allgäu and had owned the Daubenbornerhof estate (halfway from Enkenbach to Kaiserslautern) since 1748. He attended high school in Kaiserslautern, since he was originally supposed to be a Protestant pastor, but dropped out of school prematurely and went to the merchant navy in 1883, with which he went to sea worldwide (Sweden, England, France, North, South and Central America, West - and East Indies, South and East Asia, Australia, South Seas). He was a one-year volunteer and reserve officer in the Navy and took part in the fight against an Arab uprising in East Africa in 1888/1889 as part of the protection force. From 1891 to retirement due to a tropical disease in 1902, he was a colonial official in German East Africa ( Tanzania ), most recently as a director of the government's main treasury in Dar es Salaam and imperial government councilor (1902).

From 1902 he studied history, geography, economics and natural sciences at the University of Heidelberg and received his doctorate in paleontology in 1907 with a thesis on the Triassic gastropod fauna of Predazzo (South Tyrol). From 1907 he was a volunteer geological employee at the University of Heidelberg and from 1932 lecturer for Palatinate regional studies. He also taught at the Mannheim Commercial College from 1918, and from 1924 as a part-time lecturer. He was a city councilor in Heidelberg (from 1915 on the board and from 1919 deputy chairman) and from 1914 to 1919 he was the commercial director of the largest Heidelberg military hospital in the town hall.

Mainly he made a name for himself as a Palatinate local history researcher, gave many lectures and published a lot about Palatinate local history and is known for contributions to regional and folklore, geology and geography, history and archeology and migration and dialect research for the Palatinate. He was the author of the six-volume standard work Palatine Bibliography . About 600 publications and the establishment of the landscape term Palatinate Forest come from him (according to Häberle, the term was created by forest people in St. John's Cross in 1843 ). He was active in the Palatinate Forest Association , founded in 1903 , in which he published his first local history studies. He undertook many educational hikes with students, the Palatinate Forest Association and the Association for Natural History Pollichia.

In 1899 he married Emilie Grossarth from Odernheim, with whom he had two daughters.

He was the editor of the annual reports and communications of the Upper Rhine Geological Association , the negotiations of the Natural History-Medical Association Heidelberg , the contributions to the Baden regional studies , the Palatinate local history (which he founded and published from 1910 to 1921) and the contributions to the regional studies of the Palatinate . From 1922 he was co-editor of the Palatinate Museum . He was the editor of the Geographische Zeitschrift .

He was the head of the Institute for Palatinate Regional Studies of the von Portheim Foundation for Science and Art in Heidelberg and “Calculator” of the foundation.

He is buried in Odernheim am Glan.

Honors and memberships

In 1917 he received the title of professor from the Grand Duke of Baden and in 1934 he became honorary professor at the University of Heidelberg.

• 1916 corresponding member of the Geographical Society in Munich
• 1917 corresponding member of the Palatinate Historical Society
• 1918 honorary member of the Palatinate Forest Association
• 1920 honorary member of the Association of Palatinate Climbers
• 1920 honorary member of the Historical Association of Mediomatrics for the West Palatinate
• 1921 honorary member of the Upper Rhine Geological Association
• 1923 honorary member of the Society for Bavarian Regional Studies in Munich
• 1924 honorary member of the Natural History Medical Association in Heidelberg
• 1924 corresponding member of the Mannheim Antiquities Association
• 1924 honorary member of the Literary Association of the Palatinate
• 1925 Full member of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science
• 1927 corresponding member of the Geographical Society of Würzburg
• 1930 honorary member of the Palatinate Society in Berlin
• Honorary member of the Geographical Society in Rostock
• Honorary member of the Geological Association Mannheim-Heidelberg.
• 1931 honorary citizen of Enkenbach
• 1933 honorary citizen of Odernheim am Glan (the home of his wife)
• 1954 plaque for his 90th birthday on the Madenburg near Eschbach (Palatinate) by the Palatinate Forest Association

The brachiopod Waldheimia (Curatula) häberlei and the gastropod Worthenia häberlei were named after him.

Fonts

• Paleontological study of triadic gastropods from the Predazzo area. Inaugural dissertation, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Carl Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung, Heidelberg, 1908
• The Upper Rhine Geological Association in the first four decades of its existence (1871-1910) and its reports. In: Reports on the meetings of the Upper Rhine. geol. Ver., 43rd Assembly in Bad Dürkheim on March 29, 2010, Part 2, E. Appendix, 1910, pp. 117-183 digitized
• The rock country of the Palatinate Forest (Palatinate Wasgenwald). An example of the emergence of bizarre weathering forms in the red sandstone, 1911
• The Palatinate Forest. A contribution to regional studies of the Rheinpfalz, Braunschweig: Westermann, 1911, 1913 Humboldt-Uni
• The natural landscapes of the Rhine Palatinate. A contribution to the Palatinate local history 1913
• Berg und Tal im Pfälzerwald, Pfälzerwald-Verein Wanderbuch, Neustadt an der Haardt, 1928, pp. 155–171
• Settlement of the Palatinate Forest, Palatinate Forest Association Wanderbuch, 1930, pp. 47–71
• Old streets and paths in the Palatinate, Palatinate Forest Association hiking book 1931, pp. 66–125
• From the sources in the Palatinate Forest, Palatinate Forest Association Wanderbuch, 1934, pp. 15–54
• Viticulture in the Palatinate, Pädagogische Warte, vol. 32, 1925. H. 14
• The desertification of the Rhine Palatinate based on the settlement history, Kaiserslautern 1921
• The caves of the Rheinpfalz, Kaiserslautern: Kayser 1918
• The mineral springs of the Rhine Palatinate and its closest neighboring areas in a geological-historical relationship, Kaiserslautern 1912
• Emigration and founding of colonies by the Palatinate in the 18th century. To commemorate the 200-year memory of the mass emigration of the Palatinate people (1709) and the Palatinate peasant general Nikolaus Herchheimer , the hero of Oriskany (6 Aug 1777), Kaiserslautern 1909
• The forests of the monastery in Kaiserslautern in the year 1600 after research by the electoral forest master Philipp Velmann: A forest-geographical-historical description, published by the Historisches Verein der Pfalz 1913

Web links

Commons : Daniel Häberle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Historical highlights: Daniel Häberle, Institute for Palatinate History 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CV of Prof. Dr. Daniel Häberle. Verbandsgemeinde Enkenbach-Alsenborn, accessed on May 30, 2019 .