Karl Strübin
Karl Strübin (born June 12, 1876 in Liestal ; † April 17, 1916 ibid) was a Swiss geologist and teacher who researched the Swiss Jura in the area around Basel . In the Baselland he was considered a nature conservation pioneer.
Life
Strübin was the son of the city forester in Liestal and went to school there at the upper secondary school in Basel. In 1895 he graduated from high school . In Liestal he was a student of Franz Leuthardt and in Basel Andreas Gutzwiller (1845–1917), who made a special contribution to researching the Tertiary in the Basel area. He then studied natural sciences - especially geology - at the University of Basel , where he received his doctorate in 1901 under Carl Schmidt . Another teacher was the private lecturer August Tobler , who, in contrast to Schmidt, also dealt with the law.
In his dissertation he mapped and examined the area of the Swiss Jura between his home town of Liestal and Augst . He provided detailed stratigraphic and palaeontological investigations of the Jura in the area around Basel, which the Basel professors Albrecht Müller (1819–1890) and Peter Merian and, for the area of the eastern edge of the Black Forest, the Baden geologist Ferdinand Schalch had started. Fritz Mühlberg (1840–1915), professor at the Aarau Cantonal School , the doctor in Delsberg Jean-Baptiste Greppin (1819–1881) and his son Eduard Greppin (1856–1927, chemist in Basel) also contributed to the knowledge of the Jura near Basel , Louis Rollier and Amanz Gressly .
After receiving his doctorate, Strübin worked as an assistant at the Basel Natural History Museum in the geological collection, became a teacher at the secondary school in Pratteln in 1902 and at the district school in his home town of Liestal in 1905. There he lived with his widowed mother in his parents' house, where he also married. His son Theodor also became a teacher. Out of consideration for his mother, he did not want to work as an oil geologist abroad like many other young Swiss geologists (including his teacher Tobler). Strübin died of a longstanding kidney disease.
His geological map with profile map, which he started in his dissertation, was no longer published, but was z. B. used by Serge von Bubnoff . It is kept in the Natural History Museum Basel.
Strübin gave many lectures and published activity reports for the Natural Research Society of Basel and Baselland. In addition to the geology of the Swiss Jura, they concern erratic blocks near Basel, which he registered and protected as natural monuments, as well as paleontology . In the Basellandschaftliche Zeitung he published popular science articles, some anonymously.
He also worked as an engineering geologist and appraiser, among others for the Weissenstein tunnel , the Schweizerhall salt works and the Augst-Wyhlen hydropower plant .
literature
- Obituary by August Buxtorf , Negotiations of the Swiss Natural Research Society, Volume 98, 1916, pp. 19ff, pdf
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hansjörg Schmassmann: History of geological research in the Basel area 1900-1949 , activity report of the Natural Research Society Baselland Volume 18, 1948/49, p. 41
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Strübin, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss geologist and teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liestal |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 17, 1916 |
| Place of death | Liestal |