Johann Karl Ludwig Hehl
Johann Karl Ludwig Hehl (born September 18, 1774 - † July 3, 1853 ) was a German doctor, mineralogist , geologist and petrographer .
He was the son of Stuttgart's mayor Johann Hehl (died 1813) and attended grammar school and, from 1784, the Hohe Karlsschule in Stuttgart. He then studied medicine in Würzburg, Göttingen and Vienna and received his doctorate in medicine in Tübingen in 1796. He was a resident doctor in Dürrmenz, Neuenstadt and Möckmühl and from 1804 in Stuttgart. There he also became the overseer of the lightning rods and mountain ridge in 1806. He was also the overseer for minerals in the natural history cabinet. He was a member of the Patriotic Association for Natural History in Stuttgart.
His mineral and rock collection (around 20,000 copies) was bought by the University of Tübingen, whereby Friedrich August Quenstedt (who was related to him through Hehl's wife) in 1852 in his recommendation for the purchase pointed out the outstanding position of the collection in historical terms - it was still under the influence of the pioneer of geology in Germany Abraham Gottlob Werner .
In 1836 he received the great gold medal for art and science from the King of Württemberg. In 1844 he became a member of the Leopoldina .
In 1815 he married the daughter of the ducal personal physician Friederike Klein.
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- The geognostic conditions in Württemberg 1850
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References and comments
- ↑ Wolf von Engelhardt , Helmut Hölder, Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology at the University of Tübingen from the beginnings to the present, Mohr 1977, p. 29
- ^ Member entry by Johann Karl Ludwig Hehl at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 17, 2015.
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| SURNAME | Hehl, Johann Karl Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mineralogist and geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1774 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 3, 1853 |