Gustav Carl Laube

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Gustav Carl Laube , also Gustav Karl Laube (born January 9, 1839 in Teplitz-Schönau , Bohemia , Austrian Empire , † April 12, 1923 in Prague , Czechoslovakia ) was a Bohemian-Austrian geologist, paleontologist and explorer.

Life

Gustav Carl Laube studied geology and palaeontology at the Charles University in Prague , the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . After receiving his doctorate in 1865 as Dr. rer. nat. he became an assistant at the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna and was assistant at the court mineral collection at the Technical University and the University of Vienna under Eduard Suess and qualified as a professor in 1866 in paleontology .

The ships Germania (left edge of the picture) and Hansa leave Bremerhaven on June 15, 1869

From 1869 to 1870 he took part as a geologist in the Second German North Polar Expedition under the direction of the captain of the Germania Karl Koldewey on the sailing ship Hansa under captain Friedrich Hegemann with the also embarked zoologist Reinhold Wilhelm Buchholz . The Hansa was enclosed in the ice, crushed and sank. The expedition participants were able to save themselves on an ice floe, drifted 1,500 kilometers south and landed in Friedrichsthal ( Narsaq Kujalleq ) after more than 6 months .

The Hansa in Not, 1869.

In 1871 Laube became a full professor of mineralogy and geology at the Polytechnic in Prague and from 1878 to 1910 professor of geology and paleontology at the German Karl Ferdinand University in Prague. In 1893/94 he was its rector . He set up the new geological-paleontological institute in Prague, was a specialist in all geology and petrography , since 1891 chairman of the Society for the Promotion of Science, Art and Literature in Bohemia and from 1892 to 1923 managing director of the Association for the History of Germans in Bohemia .

recognition

In the summer of 1870, the Laube-Berg on the east coast of Svalbard was named after him.

In 1874 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . Gustav Carl Laube became an honorary citizen of his hometown Teplitz-Schönau in 1879 for the recovery of the thermal springs after the water ingress in a mine in neighboring Dux ( Duchcov ) on February 10, 1879.

At the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy , before 1918, he was raised to the hereditary-Austrian nobility as Edler von Laube (Hans von Stratowa: Wiener Genealogisches Taschenbuch 1926–1937, self-published Vienna, 1st year 1926)

family

The women's rights activist Lucia Laube (born May 28, 1872 in Prague, died on October 14, 1945 in the internment camp for Germans 1945–1948 in Terezín , Leitmeritz district / Czechoslovakia) is his daughter. She was president of the Prague German Women's Employment Association and a member of the Federation of Austrian Women's Associations .

Fonts

Complete list see Lotos 72, 1924, pp. 8 to 14

  • The fauna of the strata of St. Cassian: a contribution to the paleontology of the Alpine Triassic .
  1. Spongitariums, corals , echinids and crinoids . 1865.
  2. Brachipods and Bivalves . 1865.
  3. Gastropods . 1868.
  4. Gastropods. 1869.
  5. Cephalopods . 1869.
  • The echinoids of the upper tertiary deposits . Vienna 1871.
  • The journey of the Hansa into the northern Arctic Ocean - geological observations , 1871
  • From the past of Joachimstal . Prague 1873.
  • with Carl Tragau and Georg Bruder (1856–1916), founders of the geological museum in Aussig on the Elbe, relocated to Türmitz: panels for use when studying geology and palaeontology. Prague: Calve, 1878.
  • Geological excursions in the thermal area of ​​north-western Bohemia . Leipzig: Veit, 1884.
  • Geology of the Bohemian Ore Mountains , 2 volumes, Prague 1886/1887.
  • The geological structure in Bohemia , 1891, 1923
  • Popular traditions from Teplitz and the surrounding area . Prague 1896.
  • Turtle remains of the Bohemian lignite formation , 1896
  • The geological conditions of the Giesshübl Sauerbrunn mineral water area . Kyselka: Mattoni, 1898.
  • The origin of the colored connections at the Prague universities . German work, I vol. (1902), no. 7.
  • The Hallstadtsiedlung am Borschen , 1927

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
  2. ^ Johann Jakob Egli : Nomina geographica. Language and factual explanation of 42,000 geographical names of all regions of the world. Friedrich Brandstetter, 2nd edition, Leipzig 1893, p. 527
  3. ↑ Member entry of Gustav Laube at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 20, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Arbor, Gustav Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arbor, Gustav Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian (Austrian) geologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Teplitz
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1923
Place of death Prague