Heinrich Grebe

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Heinrich Grebe (born May 11, 1831 in Rauschenberg ; † March 8, 1903 ) was a German geologist.

Life

Grebe attended the secondary school in Giessen and the Polytechnic in Kassel in order to enter the higher service in the mining industry. From 1851 he studied natural sciences and in particular chemistry, geology and mineralogy at the University of Marburg. While still a student, he supported the geological survey of Hesse (mapping between Marburg and Fritzlar) and came into contact with Heinrich von Dechen . After graduating, he went into mining. In 1856/57 he worked in the hard coal mines in Obernkirchen, in iron ore mines on the Rhine and in the construction of railway tunnels on the Rhine. From 1859 he was at the iron ore mines of Böcking in the Hunsrück. However, he kept in touch with Dechen and its mapping work and was involved in the geological survey of the Rhine provinces from 1871 (initially at the transition from the Rhenish Slate Mountains to the Muschelkalk near Merzig on the Saar, later in the Trier Mulde). From 1874 to 1900 he was at the Prussian Geological State Institute , from 1876 as a state geologist. For health reasons he was only able to do limited geological field work from 1897 and in 1900 had to give up his work as a geologist entirely. He lived in Trier .

Grebe researched the history of the river and the Triassic in the Saar and Moselle areas, where he mainly mapped. The area he researched went far beyond his published geological maps to the area south of the Eifel.

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He edited the geological maps 1: 25,000 with explanations of Wincheringen , Saarburg , Beuren (Hochwald) , Freudenburg , Perl (Moselle) , Merzig , Schillingen , Hermeskeil , Losheim am See , Wadern , Wahlen (Losheim am See) , Lebach , Bitburg , Landscheid , Welschbillig , Schweich , Trier , Pfalzel , Mettendorf (Eifel) , Oberweis , Wallendorf (Eifel) , Bollendorf and without explanation and with others: Birkenfeld (Nahe) , Nohfelden , Freisen , Ottweiler , St. Wendel , Schönberg (near Thalfang) , Morscheid , Buhlenberg , Sohren and Hottenbach .

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SURNAME Grebe, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Rauschenberg
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1903