Heinrich Fiedler
Carl August Heinrich Fiedler (born February 10, 1833 in Neisse ; died January 22, 1899 in Breslau ) was a German geologist , mineralogist and educator .
Live and act
Fiedler studied natural sciences and mathematics in Breslau. From 1854 to 1876 he worked as a teacher at the municipal secondary school of the first order of the Holy Spirit . From 1855 he also worked as a curator at the Mineralogical Museum of the University of Wroclaw . On October 16, 1856 he was elected a member (matriculation no. 1784) of the Leopoldina with the academic surname de Charpentier in the Mineralogy, Crystallography and Petrology Section .
In 1859 he was elected secretary of the Breslau Trade Association and was its chairman from 1879 to 1893. In 1862 he was a co-founder of the Silesian Central Trade Association . In the autumn of 1874 the higher trade school in Breslau was established with his help, and he became its director in 1876. From 1875 until his death he was a member, temporarily also second president, of the Wroclaw City Council. From the same year he was chairman of the Breslau Masonic Lodge .
From 1878 Fiedler took part in numerous deliberations on the school system in Berlin and was a member of the Prussian December Conference in 1890 . He campaigned for the equality of upper secondary schools with grammar school and secondary school . In 1891 he was appointed to the permanent commission for technical education.
Fiedler wrote numerous reports, expert opinions and memoranda as well as some mineralogical and geological studies.
After the death of his wife, Fiedler married a second time a few years before his death. He had two sons and a daughter. His widow was only appointed as a secret councilor after Fiedler's death.
Works
- Contribution to the knowledge of the Karpolithen of the coal formation . Inaug. Diss., Breslau 1853
- The minerals of Silesia with consideration of the neighboring countries . FEC Leuckart, Breslau 1863
literature
- Sander: Fiedler, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 48, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 552-554.
- Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 283 (archive.org)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member entry of Heinrich Fiedler at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on January 6, 2018.
- ^ Otto Höffer: Fifty Years of the Silesian Central Business Association 1862–1912 . Wroclaw, 1912
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fiedler, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fiedler, Carl August Heinrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geologist, mineralogist and educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1833 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neisse |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1899 |
| Place of death | Wroclaw |