Karl Wiebel (natural scientist)

Karl Werner Maximilian Wiebel (born February 2, 1808 in Wertheim ; † April 16, 1888 ibid) was a German teacher and naturalist .

Life

After studying natural sciences in Bonn and Heidelberg and traveling through Germany, Belgium and Switzerland, Wiebel started teaching physics and chemistry at the Physikalischer Verein in Frankfurt am Main in 1833 . In 1835 he accepted the call to Aarau at the canton school there to take over the professorship for the same subjects before he took over the professorship at the Academic Gymnasium in Hamburg in 1837 , which he held until 1881. There he taught mathematics, physics and chemistry and was also rector from time to time (the rectorate changed every year). Wiebel also took over the management of the chemical laboratory, which had been planned since 1838 and was founded in 1841, the teaching laboratory of the Academic Gymnasium, which he gave up in 1877 due to illness, as he had been blind since around 1870.

Karl Wiebel was President of the Natural Science Association in Hamburg from 1847 to 1864 and was accepted into the Leopoldina on November 24, 1873 . His son Ferdinand Wibel emerged from his marriage to Anna Maria Helene Albertine Franciska Hoffmann in Wertheim on October 27, 1835 . The last work he started on Wertheim Castle was published by his son in 1895, albeit with major changes.

Works (selection)

• The island of Helgoland . Studies of their size in the past and present, from the standpoint of history and geology. With two cards and a board. In: Treatises from the field of natural sciences published by the natural science association in Hamburg . Second volume, first section. Herold'sche Buchhandlung, Hamburg 1848 ( archive.org ).
• To the fauna and gays of the West African coastal countries and islands . Printed by Theodor Gottlieb Meissner, Hamburg 1850, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-211409 .
• The physical cabinet and chemical laboratory of the Academic Gymnasium in Hamburg . History of their development and description of their current state. Printed by Theodor Gottlieb Meissner, Hamburg 1863, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-215209 .
• The island of Kephalonia and the sea mills of Argostoli . Attempt to solve this geophysical riddle. With 1 map, 3 sketches and 5 woodcuts. Printed by Th. G. Meissner, Hamburg 1873, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-214084 .
• The town church of Wertheim and its grave monuments . To commemorate the celebration of its 500th anniversary by Count Johann I, called "im Bart", on the day of John the Baptist in 1384. Bechstein, Wertheim a. M. 1884 (2nd, improved and enlarged edition 1888).

literature

• Wibel (Wiebel) (Karl Bernhard Maximilian, Phil. Dr.) . In: Hans Schröder , AH Kellinghusen (Hrsg.): Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present . On behalf of the Association for Hamburg History. tape 8 . Hamburg 1883, p. 7 ( archive.org ).
• CH Knoblauch : Biographical Communications . In: Leopoldina . Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. Issue 24, No. 11-12 , June 1888, pp. 111-112 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
• Short biography and publications by Karl Wiebel . University of Hamburg, Department of Chemistry. Last modified on July 31, 2014
• Herbert Weidner : From the history of the Natural Science Association in Hamburg , in: Negotiations of the Natural Science Association in Hamburg , N [eue] F [olge] Vol. 30, Hamburg 1988, p. 39, PDF
• Member entry of Karl Wiebel at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on December 12, 2016.