Ernst von Roehl

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Ernst Karl Gustav Wilhelm von Roehl (born May 1, 1825 in Breslau , † September 19, 1881 in Hamm ) was a Prussian major and researcher in the field of paleobotany . Its botanical author's abbreviation is " Roehl ".

Life

Ernst von Roehl, son of the infantry general Johann Ernst Gustav von Roehl (1799–1867), joined the Prussian army as a volunteer after attending secondary school in Düsseldorf in 1843 and participated in both the 1848 and 1849 battles against Denmark with the unrest in the Rhineland , where he advanced to major. In 1869 he resigned from military service in order to prepare for a post in the post office box, but was returned to active military service when the war against France broke out in 1870 and participated with distinction in various military ventures, for which he was awarded the Iron Cross II. Class, the Bavarian Order of Military Merit , the Hessian Order of Ludwig and the Saxon Order of Albrecht was rewarded.

During his stays in various garrison towns, namely in Hamm, he developed a keen interest in the natural sciences, particularly geology . He began with great zeal to collect minerals and plant fossils from the Westphalian coal mountains, which he brought together in rare completeness. He decided to publish a comprehensive work on the flora of the Carboniferous in Westphalia. It was published in 1868 in the 18th volume of Dunker's Paläontographica with 32 plates of carefully drawn illustrations and precise descriptions. The work is valued as an excellent scientific achievement, which is characterized in particular by the fact that the occurrence of the individual plant species on the various coal seams is precisely specified. This achievement was recognized by the award of the Grand Ducal Oldenburg Medal for Science and Art in 1869. However, the aforementioned publication was the only major scientific achievement with which von Roehl stood out. Smaller treatises such as those on nickel pebbles , Cyclopteris and Neuropteris species appeared in the negotiations of the Natural History Association of the Rhineland and Westphalia .

In 1881 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Von Roehl succumbed to a persistent ailment on the night of September 18-19, 1881 in Hamm.

Publications

  • Fossil flora of the coal formation in Westphalia including Piesberg near Osnabrück . In: Wilhelm Dunker (Ed.): Paläontographica Vol. 18, Kassel 1868, pp. 1–192 ( digitized version ).

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  1. ↑ Member entry of Ernst von Roehl at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 23, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Roehl, Ernst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roehl, Ernst Karl Gustav Wilhelm von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major and researcher in the field of paleobotany
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1881
Place of death Hamm