Karl von Seebach

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Karl Albert Ludwig von Seebach (born August 13, 1839 in Weimar ; † January 21, 1880 in Göttingen ) was a German geologist and professor of geology and paleontology at the Georg August University of Göttingen .

Life

His father was a major and chamberlain in Sachsen-Weimar from the von Seebach family and collected fossils and minerals , something he had been inspired to do by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe himself. Seebach went to school in Rudolstadt and Weimar (grammar school), collected fossils as a teenager and published articles in the journal of the German Geological Society in 1857, still relevant today, with the first name of a cephalopod ( Goniatites tenuis , today: Beneckeia tenuis (SEEBACH 1857)) as well as ostracodes from the Triassic of Thuringia . After graduating from high school in 1858, in preparation for a career in mining, he did an internship in the ore mines in Kamsdorf and then studied geology and paleontology in Breslau (with Ferdinand von Roemer , with whom he traveled to Russia ), Göttingen and Berlin with Heinrich Ernst Beyrich . In 1862 he received his doctorate in Göttingen with a work that had been suggested under Beyrich (The Conchylia Fauna of the Weimar Triassic). He became an associate professor there the following year. He had received the call to do so even before his doctorate - in Göttingen, in addition to Sartorius von Waltershausen , a Plutonist (and godchild of Goethe), they wanted a Neptunist as a balance (the two schools had faced each other since the end of the 18th century and at times the geologists were divided ).

From 1870 he was a full professor after he had turned down a call to the University of Strasbourg . In 1864/65 he traveled to Central America ( Guatemala , Costa Rica and others), where he originally wanted to study marine fossils, but then studied the numerous active volcanoes there. Volcanology became one of his main geological interests, and he particularly studied the Santorini volcano , which he was present when it erupted in 1866. This resulted in a new classification of volcanoes, which replaced the classification by Alexander von Humboldt . Von Seebach was the first to distinguish stratovolcanoes . In a work on the earthquake in Central Germany on March 6, 1872, he tried to determine the depth of the earthquake center from precise time comparisons and to draw conclusions about the earth's interior (using the method of Robert Mallet , whom he also criticized, and William Hopkins ). He published, among other things, about Ice Age mammal finds in the Leinetal , the Jura in the Hanover area , the chalk in the Ohm Mountains , plans for a canal from the Caribbean to the Pacific in Central America and the geology of Bornholm as well as various paleontological works. He built up a geological-paleontological collection at the University of Göttingen. In 1877 the Museum für Naturkunde was opened in Göttingen and in the same year geology and palaeontology separated from mineralogy at the university and Seebach was the first director of the geological-paleontological institute.

On behalf of the Prussian State Geological Institute , he mapped Worbis and Niederorschel . The preparation of a geology congress in Göttingen in 1878 overwhelmed his health. He was in Portugal for recreation in 1878/79 (where he also worked geologically), but died soon afterwards in January 1880.

He was an assessor since 1864 and a full member since 1876 of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

He had been married since 1867.

Fonts

  • Goniatites tenuis. Journal of the German Geological Society, IX, p. 24, Berlin 1857
  • Entomostrace from the Thuringian triad. Journal of the German Geological Society, IX, 198 - 206, Plate VIII, Berlin 1857
  • The conchyllium fauna of the Weimar Triassic. Journal of the German Geological Society, XIII, 551 - 666, panel XIV - XV, Berlin 1861
  • To the criticism of the genus Myophoria Bronn and its Triassic species. News from the Royal. Society of Sciences and the Georg August University of Göttingen, 375 - 384, 1867
  • About Estheria Albertii Voltz sp. News from the Royal. Society of Sciences and the Georg August University of Göttingen, 281-285, 1868
  • About volcanoes in Central America . Treatises of the Royal Society of Sciences in Göttingen, Volume 38, Dieterichsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Göttingen 1892

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About the volcano Santorini and the eruption of 1866 , Abh. Kgl. Ges. Wiss., Göttingen 1867
  2. ↑ Seebach preliminary communications on the typical differences in the construction of volcanoes , magazine d. German geolog. Society, Volume 18, 1866, p. 643
  3. ^ Meyers Konversationslexikon 1885-1892, Vulkane
  4. ^ About the central German earthquake of March 6, 1872. A contribution to the doctrine of the earthquakes , Leipzig: Haessel 1873
  5. ↑ Seebach Der Hannoversche Jura , Berlin, W. Hertz 1864, online
  6. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 222.
personal data
SURNAME Seebach, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seebach, Karl Albert Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1880
Place of death Goettingen