Julius Ewald

Julius Wilhelm Ewald (born December 3, 1811 in Berlin ; † December 11, 1891 ) was a German geologist and paleontologist.

Ewald studied in Bonn and Berlin, where he received his doctorate with Christian Samuel Weiss with a mineralogical-crystallographic thesis. Then he traveled with his friend Heinrich Ernst Beyrich for two years through France, Switzerland, Italy and Spain and studied especially the chalk fossils in southern France (especially rudists ). In the course of his life he built up an extensive collection of fossils, which was donated to the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin in 1892 . From 1855 he studied the chalk on the northern edge of the Harz and created a geological map published in 1864 of the area from Magdeburg to the Harz on a scale of 1: 100,000. He was a close collaborator of Leopold von Buch , whose works he co-edited from 1867 (with an unfinished biography of Buch from his hand).

He was inherently wealthy and never held public office.

In 1848 he was one of the founding members of the German Geological Society and alongside Heinrich Ernst Beyrich , Heinrich Girard and Gustav Rose its first secretary. In 1853 he became a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin and in 1860 a member of the Leopoldina .

Julius Ewald died in Berlin in 1891 at the age of 80. His grave is in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Berlin-Schöneberg . A plaque in the Natural History Museum Berlin commemorates him.

Web links

• Karl von Zittel:  Ewald, Julius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 48, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, p. 453.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mineralogical-petrographic collections, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs. Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006, p. 301.