Joseph Anton Julius Schill
Joseph Anton Julius Schill (born April 4, 1821 in Neuershausen , † February 18, 1880 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German philologist and geologist .
Due to a stay of several years in Stockach , he collected fossils and rocks and described the geology of the area in the treatise: The Tertiary and Quaternary Formations of the Land on Northern Lake Constance and in Höhgau . He then worked in Karlsruhe and Freiburg im Breisgau. He was an employee and cartographer for the Statistical Bureau in Baden and responsible for the geological survey of the country, among other things he created the sheet Waldshut (1867). Philipp Friedrich Platz and Wolfgang Moritz Vogelgesang also worked for the office during his time . He was friends with Fridolin Sandberger . By finds of Flußgeröllen on plateaus he unlocked the Wutach deviation .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Google Book Search Online
- ↑ ETH Library Rara
- ↑ Cornelia Kluth: Wolfgang Moritz Vogelgesang: An important Montanist, geologist and school man of the 19th century . In: Writings of the Association for History and Natural History of the Baar in Donaueschingen , Volume 34, 1982, p. 165, ISBN 3-88277-007-4 ( digital copy ; PDF; 41.4 MB)
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SURNAME | Schill, Joseph Anton Julius |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philologist and geologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1821 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuershausen |
DATE OF DEATH | February 18, 1880 |
Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |