Karl August Reiser (geologist)

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Karl August Reiser

Karl August Reiser (born April 18, 1853 in Kornau , Oberstdorf ; † May 8, 1922 in Kempten (Allgäu) ) was a German teacher, geologist and local researcher .

Life

Reiser was first a teacher at a middle school in Deidesheim , then an elementary school teacher in Munich and later there was also a professor at the Ludwigskreisschule.

He was in 1889 with a thesis on the University of Munich volcanics of the Allgäu doctorate .

Karl August Reiser supported the establishment of a natural science museum in Kempten with his long-standing collection of minerals , fossils and rock samples . He donated his collection to the city of Kempten in 1906, according to other sources in 1911.

Karl August Reiser died on May 8, 1922 in Kempten after severe suffering.

Reiser Collection

From 1914 to 1958 the Reiser collection was continuously accessible to the public in various municipal buildings and was continuously expanded. In 1971 the concept of the collection was renewed: The rock collection was categorized according to the usual division into six geological building units, which make up the Allgäu Alps and the foothills of the Alps . These rocks, photographs and reliefs show the mountain forms and geological profiles , whereby the history of the origin of the Kempten soil and the surrounding area is given attention. The mineral room set up in 1988 with the motto “Minerals from all over the world” in the Zumsteinhaus rounded off the “Minerals” topic. The Zumsteinhaus will be converted into the new Kempten Museum in 2018. It has not yet been decided where the Reiser collection will be shown in the future.

Publications

Reiser not only dealt with the Allgäu as a geologist, but also as a local researcher. Many of Karl August Reiser's publications can be assigned to this area.

  • Guide through Hindelang and the surrounding area. (several editions)
  • Sagas, customs and proverbs of the Allgäu. Kösel-Verlag, 1895 (several editions)
  • Allgäu legends. Kösel-Verlag, 1914
  • About newly collected Allgäu folk tales. 1888
  • Geology of the Hindelanger and Pfrontener Mountains in the Allgäu. Piloty & Loehle, 1922
  • History of the lead and calamine mines on Rauschenberg and Staufen in Upper Bavaria. Wolf & Sohn, Munich 1895 ( digitized version )
  • Popular vernacular, proverbs, idioms, popular rhymes and vocabulary of the Allgäu. 1899

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About the igneous rocks of the Algäu. A contribution to the geology of Bavaria . Dissertation Munich 1889.
  2. ↑ Volker Dotter Weich, Karl Filser u. a. (Ed.): History of the city of Kempten. Dannheimer, Kempten 1989, ISBN 3-88881-011-6 , p. 390.
  3. ↑ Witnesses of the Earth's History. in Kreisbote.de, January 13, 2009 (accessed June 15, 2014)
  4. ↑ Zumsteinhaus with Roman Museum and Natural History Museum. In: www.kulturbox.de (accessed on June 15, 2014)

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SURNAME Reiser, Karl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, geologist and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Kornau , Oberstdorf
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1922
Place of death Kempten (Allgäu)