Johann Gottfried Zehler

Geological map of the Siebengebirge by Johann Gottfried Zehler (1837)

Johann Gottfried Zehler (* 1811 in Gröben ; † 1873 in Zeitz ) was a German teacher and naturalist .

Life

Johann Gottfried Zehler studied with Georg August Goldfuss at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and worked from 1836 to 1838 as a natural history teacher in Krefeld. He was an external member of the seminar for all natural sciences at the Rhenish Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität and was friends with Hermann Friedrich Emmrich , Heinrich Ernst Beyrich and Gustav Wohlers, to whom he dedicated his book about the Siebengebirge , published in 1837 . In doing so, he created a geological map of the Siebengebirge in a north-east orientation on a scale of about 1: 25000 and lists the fossils known to him from what is now known as the Rott fossil deposit in his work, in addition to other sites . In later years he ran the Kapitelschenke in Zeitz as a private scholar.

Fonts

• The Siebengebirge and its surroundings are shown after the more interesting relationships . Funcke, Crefeld 1837 ( digitized version )

literature

• Wolfhart Langer: Portraits of Researchers. From the beginning to the middle of the 20th century . In: Wighart von Koenigswald (Hrsg.): Rott fossil deposit near Hennef am Siebengebirge. Life on a subtropical lake 25 million years ago . 2nd expanded edition. Rheinlandia-Verlag, Siegburg 1996, pp. 99-104
• Otfried Wagenbreth : History of the geology in Germany . Springer Spektrum, 1999, p. 87 and p. 258