Ernst Erhard Schmid

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Ernst Erhard Friedrich Wilhelm Schmid

Ernst Erhard Friedrich Wilhelm Schmid (born May 22, 1815 in Hildburghausen , † February 16, 1885 in Jena ) was a German paleontologist , petrograph , mineralogist and geologist and professor of natural history at the University of Jena .

Life

Ernst Erhard was the son of Jena law professor Karl Ernst Schmid (1774-1852) and his wife Sophie Zehelein (1794-1861). He grew up in Jena and attended grammar school in Weimar . Schmid studied natural sciences from Michaelis 1833 at the University of Jena , where he studied with Jakob Friedrich Fries , among others . During that time he was a member of the fraternity from 1833 to 1839 and had continued his studies at the University of Vienna for a year. Returning to Jena, Michaelis received his doctorate in philosophy in 1839 with the thesis Elementa doctrinae de luce undulatione inductionibus comprobata and in March 1840 he qualified as a lecturer in physics and mineralogy due to a thesis on the wave theory of light.

On June 2, 1843, he took over an extraordinary professorship for natural sciences, founded the Physiological Institute with Matthias Jacob Schleiden and gave lectures on mineralogy, geology, chemistry, physics, mathematics and economics. On January 18, 1854 he became a full honorary professor, on January 19, 1856 he became a full professor of natural history, at the same time director of the grand-ducal institutes for mineralogy and concentrated in this task on geology and mineralogy. In 1860 he became a councilor. On December 10, 1861 ( matriculation number 1961 ) he was given the surname C. v. Sternberg elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1880 he became a Privy Councilor. He also participated in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the alma mater in the summer semester of 1860, 1882, and in the winter semester of 1867 .

Schmid mapped for the Prussian Geological State Institute (PGLA) in Thuringia (around 25 individual maps ) and published in their yearbooks.

honors and awards

Species named after Ernst Erhard Schmid:

  • Tholodus Schmidi Meyer, 1848

Fonts

  • Textbook of meteorology, Voss, Leipzig 1860 ( google books )
  • Ground plan of meteorology , Voss, Leipzig, 1862 ( google books )
  • with MJ Schleiden: The geognostic conditions of the Saalthal near Jena. Leipzig: Engelmann 1846, ( google books )
  • with Karl Heinrich Emil Koch : Footprints in the colorful sandstone. Jena 1841, ( google books )
  • About Muschelkalk and Muschelkalkboden from the Saalthale near Jena. In: Archiv der Pharmazie, 86, 1843, 143–155.
  • Topographical-geognostic map of the area around Jena, Frommannsche Hofbuchhandlung 1859.
  • Explanations of the topographic-geognostic map of the surroundings of Jena, Frommann, Jena 1859 ( archive )
  • About fossil dinosaur bones from the shell limestone of Jena. In: Archiv der Pharmazie, 88, 1844, 251–257.
  • About the basaltic rocks of the Rhön. In: Zeitschr. d. German geolog. Ges., Volume 5, 1849, 227.
  • The organic remains of the shell limestone in the Saal-Thale near Jena. In: New yearbook for mineralogy, geognosy, geology and petrefacts customer, year 1853, pp. 6–30.
  • About tertiary marine conchylia near Buttstadt. In: Zeitschr. d. German geol. Ges. 1867.
  • About fish teeth of the Triassic near Jena. In: Nova Acta Leopoldina, Volume 29, 1861.
  • The Melphyr from the Mombächler Höfe between Baumholder and Grumbach and the Labrador enclosed in it. In: Annalen der Physik, Volume 195, 1863, 138-145.
  • About the quartz-free porphyries of the central Thuringian Forest, which are usually summarized as melaphyres. In: Zeitschr. d. German geol. Ges., Vol. 30, 1878, 558-562.
  • The structure of the upper Triassic. In: Zeitschr. d. German geol. Ges. 1864.
  • The kaolins of the Thuringian red sandstone. In: Zeitschr. d. German geol. Ges., Vol. 28, 1876, 87-110.
  • From eastern Thuringia. Over shell sandstone in the uppermost shell limestone. In: Zeitschr. d. German geol. Ges., Vol. 23, 1871, 473-485.
  • About the Lower Keuper of eastern Thuringia. In: Treatises on the special geological map of Prussia and the Thuringian states, Volume I, Issue 2, 1874.
  • The Ehrenberg near Ilmenau, 1876.
  • The shell limestone of eastern Thuringia. Jena 1876.
  • The East Thuringian Röth. In: Yearbook of the Royal Prussian Geological State Institute and Bergakademie zu Berlin for the year 1881. Berlin 1882, pp. 92–156.

literature

  • Wilhelm von Gümbel:  Schmid, Ernst Erhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 659-661.
  • Dietrich Georg von Kieser (ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 3rd issue. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1861, p. 2 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 194 ( archive.org ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry by Ernst Erhard Friedrich Schmid at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on May 18, 2017.
  2. ↑ HvMEYER: communications addressed to Professor Bronn. Tholodus Schmidi from the terebratulide lime from Zwetzen. In: New yearbook for mineralogy, geognosy, geology and petrefacts customer, year 1848, E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung und Druckerei, Stuttgart 1848, pp. 465–473.
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Ernst Erhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmid, Ernst Erhard Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist, mineralogist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildburghausen
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1885
Place of death Jena