Guido Sandberger
Heinrich Guido Friedrich Emanuel Sandberger (born May 29, 1821 in Dillenburg , † January 22, 1879 in Bonn ) was a Nassau , German geologist and paleontologist.
Life
Sandberger, the son of the teacher in Weilburg Johann Philipp Sandberger (1782–1844), went to school in Weilburg and was interested in natural history from an early age. His father built a natural history cabinet at the museum in Weilburg. Sandberger studied from 1839 natural sciences (especially geology and zoology) in Heidelberg, Marburg, Bonn and Berlin with a doctorate in Heidelberg in 1843 and was from 1845 a collaborator at the grammar school in Wiesbaden and from 1847 teacher for natural sciences at the secondary school there. In 1853 he became vice rector. In 1861 he retired for health reasons.
He published on stratigraphy and palaeontology especially of the Devonian of his homeland ( Rheinisches Schiefergebirge ) with his brother Fridolin Sandberger , who was a professor in Würzburg. Her The Petrifications of the Rhenish Layer System was a standard work with the description of 365 species, including 160 initial descriptions by the brothers (various marine invertebrates, but also plants, Lower Devonian to Lower Carboniferous). He also wrote small essays on botany, mycology and entomology.
He was on the board of the Natural History Association in the Duchy of Nassau .
The brothers' paleontological collection is in the Wiesbaden Museum .
Fonts
- The first epoch in the history of the earth's development, year books of the Nassau Association for Natural History 2, 1845, pp. 89–124
- with Fridolin Sandberger: The fossils of the Rhenish layer system in Nassau. With a brief geognosy of this area and with constant consideration of analogous strata from other countries, Wiesbaden, 2 volumes, 1850, 1856, Biodiversity Library
- with Fridolin Sandberger: Preliminary overview of the fossil plants of the Rhenish layer system in Nassau, yearbooks of the Nassau Association for Natural History 7, 1851, pp. 141–144
- Clymeniarum et Goniatitum natura etc., Bull. Der Moskauer Naturforschenden Ges. 1856
- About Clymenia, New Yearbook on Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology, 1853, pp. 513-523
- Geognostic description of the Eifel, Trier 1853
- About goniatites, and in particular about the variety series of Goniatites retrorsus v. Buch's, New Yearbook on Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology, 1851, pp. 536–554
- with Franz Querbach: The earth body, a cosmic whole, 1856
- Overview of the natural history of the Duchy of Nassau, Wiesbaden: Kreidel 1857
- Geological ABC, 1861
literature
- Gümbel, Wilhelm von: Sandberger, Guido . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 340.
Web links
References and comments
- ↑ Biographical data according to Vierhaus (ed.), German Biographical Lexicon, De Gruyter, Saur
- ^ Doris Heidelberger, Sandberger Collection, Museum Wiesbaden
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sandberger, Guido |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sandberger, Heinrich Guido Friedrich Emanuel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geologist and paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1821 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dillenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1879 |
| Place of death | Bonn |