Heinrich Ernst Beyrich

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Ernst Beyrich

Heinrich Ernst Beyrich (born August 31, 1815 in Berlin ; † July 9, 1896 there ) was a German geologist and paleontologist .

Life

Ernst Beyrich passed his Abitur at the age of 16 at the Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster . At the beginning of his studies at the University of Berlin , he was unsure whether to study botany , zoology or mineralogy . Under the influence of Christian Samuel Weiss , he opted for the latter. In 1834 he went to Bonn to study palaeontology and geology with August Goldfuß .

After graduation, he wandered for two years with his friend Julius Ewald (1811-1891) through Germany, France, Switzerland and Northern Italy. In 1837 he was in Berlin with a thesis on the goniatites the Rhenish Massif doctorate . The doctoral thesis received a lot of attention and enabled Beyrich to contact Leopold von Buch , who did not break off until Buch's death.

In 1841 Beyrich completed his habilitation as a private lecturer at the University of Berlin and was brought in for the land survey on behalf of the Prussian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Public Works under the direction of Ernst Heinrich von Dechen . Silesia , which up to now has hardly been considered geologically, was assigned to it as the coverage area . After two years of work, he presented his report, which had a major impact on the reorganization of the Silesian mining districts.

In 1845 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy . In 1848 he became an assistant at the "Mineralogical Museum" and from 1857 headed the "Paleontological Collection". In December 1848 he was a founding member of the German Geological Society and alongside Julius Ewald , Heinrich Girard and Gustav Rose its first secretary. At the Bergakademie Berlin he worked from 1857 as a private lecturer, as an associate professor and from 1865 as a full professor of geology and palaeontology.

In 1866 he was commissioned with the creation of the “Special Geological Map of Prussia” on a scale of 1: 25000 and was appointed general manager of Prussian geological mapping the following year. He dealt with the task of creating the map, which could never be completed, until the end of his life, i.e. for over 34 years. In 1869 he was one of the founding members of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory , of which he was deputy chairman from 1877 to 1894 - with a one-year break in 1884, when he chaired the society.

In 1873 he became first director of the Prussian Geological State Institute together with his former student Wilhelm Hauchecorne . From 1881 he headed the project of the Carte géologique internationale de l'Europe on behalf of the International Geological Congress , which was published from 1893 and completed by Franz Beyschlag .

In 1875 he was appointed director of the united museums for natural history. On September 29, 1876, he was appointed Secret Bergrath by the state government.

Ernst Beyrich founded the chronostratigraphic time interval of the Oligocene in 1854 .

Since 1847 Beyrich was married to the children's and youth author Clementine Helm , the niece of his teacher Christian Samuel Weiss. The marriage remained childless.

Ernst Beyrich died in Berlin in 1896 at the age of 80. He was buried in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Schöneberg , where his wife was to find her final resting place just four months after him. Both graves have not been preserved. The grave site will be marked in September 2018 by a memorial stone in memory of Clementine Helm.

honors and awards

Fonts

  • About some organic remains of the Lettenkohl formation in Thuringia . In: Journal of the German Geological Society , II, pp. 153–168, Plate VI, Berlin 1850
  • Overview of the ammonites found in the Muschelkalk at Rüdersdorf near Berlin . In: Journal of the German Geological Society , 6, Berlin 1854, pp. 513-515
  • About the position of the Hessian tertiary educations . In: Report on the negotiations of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin, which are suitable for publication, Berlin 1854, pp. 640–666 ( digitized version )
  • About the crinoids of the shell limestone. Physical treatises of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin from 1857, pp. 1–49, 2 plates, Berlin 1858
  • About ammonites of the lower shell limestone. Journal of the German Geological Society, X, pp. 208–214, panel IV, Berlin 1858
  • About some cephalopods from the shell limestone of the Alps and about related species. Treatises of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin from 1866, pp. 105–149, 5 plates, Berlin 1867

literature

Web links

  • Entry at Personenlexikon.net

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 748.
  2. ^ Andreas Conrad: Memorial stones for forgotten women writers . In: Der Tagesspiegel , September 2, 2019; accessed on March 13, 2019.
  3. ↑ Member entry of Heinrich Ernst Beyrich at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 3, 2016.
  4. ↑ Member entry of Heinrich Ernst Beyrich (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 3, 2016.
  5. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Volume 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Series 3, volume 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 39.
  6. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1850-1899 . amacad.org (PDF); accessed on September 24, 2015
  7. ^ Winner of the Cothenius Medal of the Leopoldina
personal data
SURNAME Beyrich, Heinrich Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beyrich, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1896
Place of death Berlin