Karl Gustav Amelung

Karl Gustav Amelung (born November 10, 1818 in Arnsberg , † August 15, 1866 in Breslau ) was a German mining official and most recently director of the Wroclaw Higher Mining Office.

Live and act

Karl Gustav Amelung was born in Arnsberg as the son of the government secretary (Hofrat) Wilhelm Amelung (* 1785 - 18 January 1850 ) and his wife Amalie Christine, b. Bredt born.

After attending grammar school, Amelung gained practical experience in the mines in Saarbrückens and Siegens for two years. In 1839 he was accepted as a mountain expector (candidate). Amelung then studied at the Bergakademie Berlin . On May 18, 1847 he was appointed senior miner trainee . In 1848 he is a mountain sworn in Stadtberge . On December 27, 1855 he was appointed mountain assessor . In 1856 he was for a short time a member of the Bochum Mining Authority and Bergmeister in the Essen Mining Authority . Subsequently, he was employed as a "helper" in the ministerial department of the ministry. In 1857 he became director of the Halberstadt Mining Authority . In 1860, the secret mountain ridge Amelung was one of the lecturing councils in the ministerial department. When he was promoted to Mining Captain on May 11, 1864, Gustav Amelung became director of the Wroclaw Mining Authority . He died of cholera on August 15, 1866 .

2 shafts of the Von der Heydt mine are named after him: Amelung I and Amelung II. Amelung was awarded the 4th Class Red Eagle Order .

family

He married Ida Florentine Pescatore in May 1849 in Arnsberg (born January 28, 1823 ).

Works (incomplete)

• Decomposition of the coarse pale ore from Kamsdorf in: New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geognosy, Geology and Petrekakten-Kunde , 1846, page 725
• Analysis of the Prehnite from Harze in New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geognosy, Geology and Petrekakten-Kunde , 1847, page 343
• The ore veins in the chalk marl near Blankenrode not far from Stadtberge in: Decheniana , Volume 10, Negotiations of the Natural History Association of the Prussian Rhineland and Westphalia , 1853, page 217
• Chemical investigation of clay slate near the Ramsbeck ore deposit in: Decheniana, Volume 10, Negotiations of the Natural History Association of the Prussian Rhineland and Westphalia , 1853, page 228
• Chemical investigation of the spherosiderite found between Borlinghausen and Willebadessen in: Decheniana, Volume 10, Negotiations of the Natural History Association of the Prussian Rhineland and Westphalia , 1853, page 230

literature

• Serlo, Walter: Miners families in Rhineland and Westphalia , in: Rheinisch-Westfälische Wirtschaftsbiographien , Volume 3, 1937, pages 172-173
• Journal for the mining, smelting and salt works in the Prussian state , published in the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Public Works, Berlin 1854–1866
• Schlesische Provinzialblätter , 6th volume, Breslau 1867, Nekrolog 15 August 1866, page 639