Edmund von Fellenberg
Edmund von Fellenberg (born March 9, 1838 in Bern ; † May 10, 1902 there ) was a Swiss Alpine pioneer and geologist .
Life
Fellenberg was the son of a chemist and studied mining at the Bergakademie in Freiberg , Saxony . He was also a geologist and mineralogist with a degree at the University of Bern and worked as an archaeologist and alpinist . In 1863 he was one of the 35 founding members of the Swiss Alpine Club . He was the first to climb the Doldenhorn (1862), the Silberhorn (1863), the Gross Grünhorn (1865) and the Lauterbrunner Breithorn (1865). Other first ascents were the Wellhorn , Wyssi Frau (Blüemlisalp) and first ascents of access routes on the Aletschhorn (from the south), on the Mönch (over the Nollen) and on the Bietschhorn (via the west ridge).
From 1866 he was a member of the museum commission of the Natural History Museum in Bern and its president from 1890 to 1899. From 1874 to 1877 he was the Grand Councilor of the Canton of Bern . In 1881 he donated a collection of minerals spanning several thousand levels and many more samples to the museum in later years. The Edmund von Fellenberg collection turned a rather insignificant regional collection into one of European standing. Many of the minerals he gave are still in the exhibition today. A significant part of his donation are minerals from Saxony.
The «Fellenbergflieli», the Fluh in the Rotbrettgrat ridge of the Jungfrau , is named after him.
literature
- Karl Zimmermann: Fellenberg, Edmund von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Web links
- Literature by and about Edmund von Fellenberg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Edmund von Fellenberg: About the Oltschenalp river path and its technical exploitation. "A historical and scientific memorandum for later times". In: amuseum.de. Retrieved on August 22, 2011 (presentation at a meeting of the Natural Research Society in Bern on February 16, 1889).
Individual evidence
- ↑ erststeiger.de
- ↑ Thomas Schmid, Daniel Anker, et al .: Helvetia Club - 150 years of the Swiss Alpine Club SAC . Ed .: Daniel Anker. SAC Verlag, Bern 2013, ISBN 978-3-85902-362-8 , pp. 64 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fellenberg, Edmund von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss geologist and mountaineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 10, 1902 |
| Place of death | Bern |