Jacob Nöggerath
Johann Jacob Nöggerath (also Jakob ; also Noeggerath ; * October 10, 1788 in Bonn ; † September 13, 1877 ibid) was a German mineralogist and geologist .
Life
Nöggerath spent his school days at the École centrale in Cologne. He was initially a mountain commissioner in the French service, but then in 1814 became a royal Prussian secret mountain ridge . From 1818 Nöggerath was professor of mineralogy and later of geology at the University of Bonn . From 1824 onwards he wrote countless scientific articles for the then renowned Kölnische Zeitung for almost half a century . He also pursued his journalistic hobby: researching the witch trials of the Middle Ages. In 1826 Nöggerath was rector of the university. He died on September 13, 1877 in Bonn and left 19 children from two marriages. His grave is in the old cemetery .
Honors
In 1819 Nöggerath with the academic surname Knorrius I became a member (matriculation no. 1129) of the Leopoldina . In 1843 he was made an honorary member of the Nassau Society for Natural History . Since 1872 he was a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
After his death in 1935 a street in Bonn was named after Nöggerath. A seat by Nöggerath (by Albert Küppers 1881) has been placed on the Old Cemetery in Bonn . In addition, the Nöggerath crater on the south side of the moon was named after him, as well as the Permo-Carboniferous Gondwana plant Noeggerathiopsis .
Fonts
- The mountains in Rhineland-Westphalia, according to mineralogical and chemical references . 4 volumes. 1822-1826
- The creation of the earth . 1843
- The Laacher See and its volcanic surroundings . 1870
- Testimony to the architectural and technical value of the volcanic tuff from women . Bonn 1874 ( digitized version )
literature
- Lutz Koch : The mountains in Rhineland-Westphalia and the formation of the earth. Works by Johann Jakob Nöggerath in the Schwelm city archive . In: Contributions to the local history of the city of Schwelm and its surroundings, New Series , 54th year (2005), pp. 7–26, Fig. 1–12, Tab. 1 ( online )
- Werner Kroker: Noeggerath, Johann Jacob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 310 f. ( Digitized version ).
- 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. 249 (archive.org)
- Christian von Stramberg: Memorable and Useful Rhenish Antiquarius, Volume 14, Part 3 , 1869, pp. 777-780
Web links
References and comments
- ^ Member entry by Jacob Noeggerath at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 12, 2018.
- ^ Noeggerathstrasse in the Bonn street cadastre
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nöggerath, Jacob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nöggerath, Johann Jacob; Noeggerath, Johann Jacob; Nöggerath, Jakob; Knorrius I. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mineralogist and geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1788 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 13, 1877 |
| Place of death | Bonn |