Friedrich August von Gebler
Friedrich August von Gebler (born December 15, 1781 in Zeulenroda ; † March 9, 1850 in Barnaul , Altai) was a German doctor and naturalist who went to Russia from Thuringia in 1808 and settled in Barnaul in the Altai.
Life
Gebler came from a Prussian-Austrian family of officials. At the age of 16 he began to study medicine and natural sciences at the University of Jena . In 1802 he received his doctorate in Jena as Doctor medicinae et chirurgiae and then practiced in Zeulenroda , Greiz and Dresden . In 1808 he went to Saint Petersburg because of a newspaper advertisement from the Russian government , where he passed the Russian state examination in 1809. He received a contract initially until 1816 for the city of Barnaul in Altai in southern Siberia, where he became a hospital and pit doctor. He married the Russian Alexandra Zonbareva, together they had five children. Gebler became chief physician and chief pharmacist of the region and chief medical inspector of all ore mines in the region, and in 1836 he took on Russian citizenship.
In addition to his duties as a doctor and civil servant, Gebler was a passionate naturalist, he explored the flora and fauna of the Altai region . In the Altai a glacier was named after him, he explored the hot springs of the southern Altai. He was the first to describe several species of beetles and the Altai king chicken , the Tetraogallus altaicus Gebler .
In 1826 the botanist Carl Friedrich von Ledebour visited him, in 1829 Alexander von Humboldt visited him together with Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg on their respective expeditions. Gebler also founded the Natural History Museum in Barnaul in 1823 ; he died in 1850 in a highly respected manner.
In the municipality of Zeulenroda-Triebes , a street and a square are named after Gebler.
literature
- Volker Klimpel : A Zeulenroda doctor in the Altai: Friedrich August von Gebler (1781–1850) , in: Thüringer Ärzteblatt 4/2016, p. 239 online, PDF
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heide Henze: How a Zeulenrodaer became famous in Russia, in: Ostthüringer Zeitung, October 2012 , accessed on January 9, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gebler, Friedrich August von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Russian doctor and naturalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1781 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zeulenroda |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 9, 1850 |
| Place of death | Barnaul |