Gustav Carl Laube
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 .
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 .
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 .
- Spongitariums, corals , echinids and crinoids . 1865.
- Brachipods and Bivalves . 1865.
- Gastropods . 1868.
- Gastropods. 1869.
- 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
- Kühn: Arbor Gustav Carl. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 44 f. (Direct links on p. 44 , p. 45 ).
- Heribert Sturm : Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries. Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) , Volume II, R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich 1984, ISBN 3-486-52551-4 , p. 393 f. with numerous other references.
- Franz Stark: The KK German Technical University in Prague, 1906, p. 350
- Franz Wähner : Gustav Carl Laube (obituary dated June 2, 1923), in: Lotos Prag 72, 1924, pp. 1–14 with a list of publications [1]
Web links
- Meyers-1905
- Literature by and about Gustav Carl Laube in the catalog of the German National Library
- WorldCat
- Pedigree (accessed December 19, 2014)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
- ^ 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
- ↑ Member entry of Gustav Laube at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 20, 2015.
personal data | |
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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 |