Ernst Wittich (geologist)

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Ernst Ludwig Maximilian Emil Wittich (born August 22, 1871 in Neu-Isenburg , † 1952 there ) was a German geologist and paleontologist .

Wittig was the son of a factory owner in Neu-Isenburg and attended grammar school in Darmstadt until he graduated from high school in 1891. Even as a schoolboy he was drawn to geology when he heard lectures by Georg Friedrich Kinkelin at the Senckenberg Institute in Frankfurt. He studied natural sciences at the TH Darmstadt, at the University of Munich and Gießen with the state examination for the higher teaching post in 1895. Afterwards he was assistant to Richard Lepsius at the Grand Ducal State Museum in Darmstadt and was an employee of the Geological State Office in the geological state survey of Hessen. He is known for the first fundamental investigation of the Messel pit in his dissertation in geology in Gießen in 1898. After that he was a teacher, among other things at the New Gymnasium in Darmstadt , in whose annual report he published in 1907 on the geology of Hesse. He later moved to Mexico where he worked as a geologist. At that time he was at the national geological institute in Mexico City and researched the geology of the north of the Baja California peninsula with Emil Böse .

In 1910 he published a commemorative publication in Mexico in tribute to Alexander von Humboldt on the anniversary of Mexico's independence.

He still lived in Mexico in 1935, but returned to Germany and died in his hometown in 1952. In 1938/39 he lived in Berlin. He published on the newspaper industry and early printing in Mexico.

Fonts

  • Contributions to the knowledge of Messel lignite and its fauna, treatise Großherzog-Hessische Geologische Landesanstalt, Darmstadt 1898 (dissertation in Gießen), digitized , digitized
  • Overview of the geological conditions in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Supplement to the annual report of the New Gymnasium in Darmstadt Easter 1907, Darmstadt 1907 digitized
  • As editor and co-author: Memoria científica para la inauguración de la estatua de Alejandro de Humboldt: obsequiada por SM el emperador alemán Guillermo II á la nación mexicana con motivo del primer centenario de su independencia, México, 13 de septiembre 1910, Mexico: Müller 1910
    • Simultaneously published in German: Scientific Festschrift for the unveiling of the Humboldt monument donated by His Majesty Kaiser Wilhelm II to the Mexican people on the anniversary of their independence, Mexico: Müller 1910, for the German Colony of Mexico, (therein by Wittich: Alexander von Humboldt - biographical sketch, and: The Nevado de Toluca, one of the two great Mexican volcanoes that A. von Humboldt climbed, and: Humboldt's Reisen in Mexico, pp. 47–63)
  • New outcrops in the Coyoacan lava field near Mexico, New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology, 1910, pp. 131-137 Archives
  • Strandlinien on the south coast of Baja California, in: Globus, Volume 97, 1910, p. 379 digitized
  • About ocean fluctuations on the coast of California, Journal of the German Geological Society, 64, 1912, pp. 505-512 Archives
  • with Pastor y Giraud: Giant gypsum crystals from Chihuahua , North Mexico, Centralblatt für Mineralogie, No. 22, 1912, pp. 731–733
  • Geology and Pay Minerals, in: Mexico. Brief report on economic progress over the last decade with statistical information, Mexican Consulate in Germany in Hamburg, 1923
  • Contribution to the geology of the Gulf region of Mexico, Verh. Naturhist-Mediz. Verein Heidelberg, Volume 15, Supplement 2, 1923, pp. 1-4
  • Los Minerales de Huautla, Morelos y Chiautla, Bol. Minero, Puebla, Vol. 15, No. 3, 1923, pp. 320-345
  • The development of the newspaper industry in Mexico, in: Zeitungswissenschaft, Volume 10, 1935, pp. 479-515

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stadtarchiv Neu-Isenburg commemorates Karl-Ludwig Koch and other explorers from Neu-Isenburg, op-online, 2009.
  2. ↑ Exact dates of birth and curriculum vitae up to 1898 in the curriculum vitae of his dissertation
  3. ↑ The final report was published in 1913, Böse, Wittich, Informe relativo a la exploracion de la region norte de la costa occidental de Baja California, Parergones de Inst. Geol. Mexico, Mexico City 1913, pp. 219–441
  4. ↑ Iberoamerican Institute ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2016 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. , Berlin, materials on Wittich, including photography from 1935  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sondersammlungen.iai.spk-berlin.de
  5. ^ Indication of origin in Ernst Wittich, The first printing house in America: their founders and their printing works, Ibero-American Archives, Volume 12, 1938/39, pp. 68–87, first page
personal data
SURNAME Wittich, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wittich, Ernst Ludwig Maximilian Emil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Neu-Isenburg
DATE OF DEATH 1952
Place of death Neu-Isenburg