Ernest Guglielminetti

Ernest Guglielminetti (born November 23, 1862 in Glis ; † February 20, 1943 in Geneva ) was a Swiss doctor , inventor and honorary citizen of Brig-Glis .

Guglielminetti studied medicine in Brig , Freiburg im Üechtland and Bern . He completed this course in 1885/1886 with a doctorate .

Tarred roads

Guglielminetti worked as a doctor in Java and Borneo . He got to know the sealing of buildings with tar in India . From this he developed a precursor of today's method asphalting of roads . As a doctor in Monaco on March 13, 1902, Guglielminetti had 40 meters of road coated with hot tar to combat dust . This procedure was then also used in many other countries, which Guglielminetti nicknamed Dr. Goudron (French for 'tar') brought in.

Breathing apparatus

the Guglielminetti-Dräger breathing apparatus

the Guglielminetti - Dräger breathing apparatus

He is also considered to be the inventor of the breathing apparatus for mountaineers , fire fighters , pilots and divers .

On March 10, 1906, the Courrières mine disaster occurred in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France . 1,099 miners died (to date the largest mining disaster in Europe). There was no breathing apparatus in the pit. A rescue team of 25 volunteers - German mine fighters from the Shamrock (Herne) and Rheinelbe (Gelsenkirchen) collieries traveled to Courrières. Thanks to their devices, they were able to penetrate the gas plumes; they hid numerous dead there. The disaster and the rescue operation attracted worldwide attention at that time; Photos like the one on the right appeared in newspapers. They demonstrated the usefulness of breathing masks in mining. The breathing masks were known in France as Appareil Guglielminetti-Drager (meaning Johann Heinrich Dräger , the founder of the Drägerwerke ).

literature

Werner fighting: Guglielminetti, Ernest. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 295 f. ( Digitized version ).

Georges Tscherrig: Dr. med. Ernest Guglielminetti, alias Dr. Goudron . In: Hans Steffen, Richard Lehner (Ed.): Historia. Bulletin of Pro Historia Glis . No. March 8 , 2002 ( prohistoria.ch ).

Web links

Paul Heldner: Guglielminetti, Ernest. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Ernest Guglielminetti's estate in the Basel University Library
Publications by and about Ernest Guglielminetti in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
Guglielminetti monument

Individual evidence

Jump up ↑ Helga Belach, Wolfgang Jacobsen: Grenzverlänge der Critique . In: Comradeship. Script by Vajda / Otten / Lampel for GW Pabst's film from 1931 (= FILMtext. Scripts of classic German films ). edition text + kritik, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-88377-547-9 ( cinegraph.de [accessed on May 21, 2018]).

personal data
SURNAME	Guglielminetti, Ernest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss doctor and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH	November 23, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH	Glis
DATE OF DEATH	February 20, 1943
Place of death	Geneva

[1] Jump up ↑ Helga Belach, Wolfgang Jacobsen: Grenzverlänge der Critique . In: Comradeship. Script by Vajda / Otten / Lampel for GW Pabst's film from 1931 (= FILMtext. Scripts of classic German films ). edition text + kritik, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-88377-547-9 ( cinegraph.de [accessed on May 21, 2018]).