Franz Keil (cartographer)

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Franz Keil
Map of the Stone Sea by Franz Keil (heights in Parisian feet )

Franz Keil (born June 22, 1822 in Graslitz , † March 10, 1876 in Marburg an der Drau ) was a Bohemian-Austrian geoplastic , cartographer and alpinist . He is considered an important builder of the mountain reliefs popular in the 19th century .

Life

Due to the poor financial situation of his family, Keil was initially unable to afford a degree. He completed an apprenticeship as a pharmacist in Königsberg and later in Falkenau . From 1845 he finally attended the German Karl Ferdinand University in Prague, where he studied pharmacy. In 1846 he became an assistant for botany, but broke off his studies in 1848 and had to give up his position as an assistant. He then went to Vienna and later worked in Graz and Bad Gastein as a provisional. From October 1852 to September 1858 he was a pharmacist in Lienz . There he started mountain climbing. In 1853 he climbed the Großvenediger , in 1855 the Großglockner .

In addition to geognosy , cartography and meteorology, he began to deal with the production of reliefs . After his first successful work, a representation of the Lienz Dolomites , he was able to carry out this activity full-time from 1859 onwards , supported by the Austrian Academy of Sciences . He created his reliefs, which were particularly valued as teaching aids, without templates, only from memory and based on his own height measurements. Nevertheless, his relief of the Glockner Group , one of his most highly regarded works, was long considered the most accurate representation of the area. A fourteen-part alpine panorama on a scale of 1: 48,000, which includes the Hohe Tauern , the Berchtesgaden Alps and other parts of the state of Salzburg, was awarded at the World Exhibition in London in 1862 , although only 10 parts were really completed. Originally the panorama was to consist of 35 parts. His reliefs of the Schneeberg and Untersberg also became known .

As an alpinist, Franz Keil was able to record, among other things, the first known ascent of the Hochschobers , which is now the Franz-Keil-Weg . The Keilspitze ( 2739  m above sea level ) in the Lienz Dolomites and the Keilscharte in the Hohe Tauern are named after him. He is also considered the first to climb the Rainerhorn ( 3559  m ) and the Spitzkofel ( 2717  m ) near Lienz. The construction of the Johannishütte in the Venediger group goes back to his initiative.

Franz Keil died in Marburg in 1876 , where he had lived since 1870, after being seriously injured in a crash and paralyzed by a resulting spinal cord disease.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 1888 ( peter-hug.ch [accessed on May 24, 2009]).
  2. ^ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 1888 ( peter-hug.ch [accessed on May 24, 2009]).
  3. ^ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 1888 ( retrobibliothek.de [accessed on May 24, 2009]).
  4. ↑ a b Franz Keil. The rediscovered Ore Mountains, 2007, accessed on May 24, 2009 (Czech).
  5. ^ Wolfgang Pusch: Grossglockner . Bergverlag Rother, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-7633-7509-0 , p. 27 .
  6. ^ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . Leipzig 1907 ( zeno.org [accessed May 24, 2009]).
  7. ↑ a b c Constantin von Wurzbach : Keil, Franz . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 11th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1864, pp. 132-134 ( digitized version ).
  8. ↑ Schobergruppe - huts and paths. (pdf; 3.7 MB) Austrian Alpine Club , accessed on May 24, 2009 .
  9. ↑ Large chisel tip. (pdf; 217 kB) (No longer available online.) Austrian Alpine Club , archived from the original on April 7, 2014 ; Retrieved May 24, 2009 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oeav-events.at
  10. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.alpenverein-sudeten.de
  11. ↑ Johannishütte. gibmirberge.at, accessed on May 24, 2009 .
personal data
SURNAME Wedge, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geoplastic artist, cartographer and alpinist
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Kraslice
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1876
Place of death Maribor