Leopold van Werveke

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Leopold van Werveke (born February 11, 1853 in Diekirch , † August 4, 1933 in Magdeburg ) was a German-Luxembourg geologist.

Life

The son of a sergeant from the old Flemish family attended the Athenaeum in Luxembourg and, after graduating from high school, did an apprenticeship as a pharmacist with Jean Meyer in Eich (City of Luxembourg) with subsequent studies in pharmacy at the University of Heidelberg in 1873/74. He ran a pharmacy in Echternach for a year and studied geology at the University of Strasbourg from 1875 on, with a doctorate in 1878 on the mineral springs of Bad Mondorf . While still a student, he worked in the commission for the geological survey of Alsace-Lorraine and was an assistant at the Petrographic Institute and then at the Geological Institute of the University of Strasbourg. In 1892 he created a classification of the lower carbonthe Vosges. In 1898 he was in Java and Sumatra. In 1913 he became a secret mountain ridge. 1914 to 1918 he was director of the geological institute of Alsace-Lorraine. After Alsace-Lorraine fell to France after the First World War, he retired in 1918, moved to Gengenbach and in 1931 to live with his daughter in Magdeburg .

He dealt in particular with the potash salt deposits in Alsace (and other mineral resources and mineral springs / hydrology in the Alsace-Lorraine region and the surrounding area). He wrote over 300 scientific articles.

After his retirement he dealt with the Ice Age (then called Diluvium ) in northern and central Germany, especially the Magdeburg Börde, with numerous publications on the connection to archeology (including Hundisburger layers), water resources and mineral resources. However, because of his advanced age, he could no longer look for all the information himself and was criticized by the geologists of the Prussian Geological Institute and the specialists for the north and central German Pleistocene ( Fritz Wiegers , Felix Wahnschaffe , Konrad Keilhack ). Instead of three, as assumed up to then and still today, he noted only four (1924) and then six in 1928 in the area of ​​Magdeburg. Van Werveke also assumed, contrary to the prevailing doctrine, that ice age loess formed in water. He gained a certain popularity among the general public through lectures and publications, but his writings in this field were later used mainly because of the precise description of information that is no longer available today. Was recognized z. B. his geological profile of the vineyard near Hohenwarte (breakthrough of the Elbe to the north in the Saale Ice Age).

Handwritten memoirs have been lost, but he published travel reports from his time as a geologist in what was then the Dutch Indonesia. His estate is in the geological archive in Freiburg / Breisgau, at the branch office for prehistory and early history of the State of Saxony-Anhalt in Magdeburg and letters in the Ummendorf stock exchange museum .

He was an honorary member of the Upper Rhine Geological Association .

In 1887 he became a German citizen.

Fonts

  • The mineral water of Mondorf and its relationship to the middle shell limestone, Strasbourg 1878 (dissertation)
  • Explanations on the Saarbrücken sheet of the geological overview map of Alsace-Lorraine and the adjacent areas on a scale of 1: 200,000 and on the same sheet of the tectonic map of Alsace-Lorraine on a scale of 1: 200,000, Strasbourg printing and publishing house 1906
  • Geological overview map of the southern half of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, taken by Dr. Leopold van Werveke, Strasbourg: Commission for the geological survey of Alsace-Lorraine, 1886
  • with Ernst Wilhelm Benecke , Hugo Bücking , E. Schumacher: Geological guide through Alsace, Gebr. Borntraeger Verlag, collection of geological guides, volume 5, 1900, archive
  • On Sumatra and Java in 1898. Travel letters from regional geologist Dr. L. van Werweke, Strassburger Druckerei u. Publishing House, Vol. 1: I. In the primeval forest of northern Sumatra. II. On Java 1900, Vol. 2: III. (Enough). Across Sumatra. 1901
  • Elevation map of Alsace-Lorraine and the adjacent areas, Berlin 1906
  • Layer sequence in the Oligocene of the deep boreholes of Oberstritten and Oberkutzenhausen , Strasbourg 1907
  • On the trail of the Diluvialinen in the Rhine Valley. Protection of fossil humans, communications d. Philomath. Ges. Strassburg 1909 (including the emergence of loess in the Rhine plain)
  • The occurrence of mineral and thermal springs in the Lorraine and Luxembourg red sandstone, etc., communications from the Geological Institute of Alsace-Lorraine, Volume 7, 1909, pp. 91-114
  • Apercu sur la constitutiön et l'histoire geologique des Vosges. Profile through the Vosges and the Hardt from the Doller to the Lauter .., Annal. Soc. geol. Belg., Vol. 34, 1910, pp. 247-263
  • The Trier Bay and the Horst Theory, report on the meetings of the Lower Rhine Geological Association in 1910, pp. 12–37
  • Overview of the geological structure and the geological development of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and the Grand Duchy of Baden, traveling exhibition of the German Agricultural Society of Strasbourg 5. – 10. June 1913, Strassburger Verl. Anst. 1913
  • The tectonics of the Sundgau, its relationship to the potash salt deposits in Upper Alsace and Baden and its formation, Strasbourg: Strasbourg Dr. u. Verl.-Anst., 1913
  • Profiles through the Lower Keuper from boreholes in Lorraine and the Rhine Valley, Strasbourg 1913
  • The formation of the Middle Rhine Valley and the Middle Rhine Mountains: a geotectonic sketch, Strasbourg: Trübner 1914
  • Questionable successes of the dowsing rod, Leipzig, 1915
  • Contribution to the handbook for German lignite mining , 1915 (with Konrad Keilhack , G. Klein and others)
  • Geological guide in questions of water supply in the area between the Meuse and Moselle, Strasbourg printing and publishing house 1916
  • The question of expansion of the Franco-Lorraine minette area, Gotha 1917
  • About the origin of the Loam in Lorraine and the Loess in the Middle Rhine: with views of the Loess of the Lower Rhine and the Magdeburg Börde, meeting reports of the Heidelberger Akad. Wiss., Math-Naturwiss. Class of 1924
  • The underground of Magdeburg Cathedral, Monday sheet. The Heimatblatt Mitteldeutschlands (scientific supplement to the Magdeburgische Zeitung) 1926, 207
  • A diluvial saddle from Möser, Monday sheet (scientific supplement Magdeb. Z.) 1926, 353–355
  • The Sohlener and Frohser Berge together with the Hummels Mountains, their design and their formation, Monday sheet (Wiss. Supplement Magdeb. Z.) 1926, No. 48/49;
  • Glacier deposits on the Great Wart Mountains near Irxleben and on the Hängels Mountains near Hohendodeleben and west of Diesdorf, Mondagsblatt (scientific supplement Magdeb. Z.) 1927, No. 30, 35
  • The landscape of the area around Braunlage, the richest in shapes in the Harz, 1927
  • Northern Germany was covered by inland ice at least four times, in: Zeitschrift. of the German Geological Society, 1927, pp. 135–155
  • Formation, development and structure of the Diluvium of the Magdeburg area as a basis for classifying prehistoric finds, in: August Mertens (Ed.), Festschrift 10th Conference for Prehistory, Museum for Natural and Local History Magdeburg, 1928, pp. 7–147
  • The Diluvium of Magdeburg and its wider surroundings based on the latest observations, in: Contributions to the regional studies of Central Germany, Festschrift 23rd German Geographers' Day in Magdeburg, 1929, pp. 157–254;
  • The number of glaciations in central and northern Germany., In: 25. Jb. Of the Lower Saxony Geological Association 1932/33, 1933, 201–228
  • The course and age of the main faults and the other important disturbances and movements in the area of ​​the Middle Rhine Valley Trench, Treatises of the Heidelberger Akad. Wiss., 21, 1934

He was involved in various geological maps in the Alsace-Lorraine area (see also Christian Ernst Weiß ). Among other things, the special cards Monneren, Merzig, Busendorf, Groß Hemmersdorf, Sierck, Forbach, Stürzelbronn, Saargemünd, Niederbronn, Buchsweiler come from him and he was involved in Ludweiler and Rémilly. He is listed as an author in the sheets of the geological map of France Haguenau (1967) and Bitche-Walschbronn (1970).

literature

  • Robert Stumper: Luxembourg scientist abroad. Luxembourg 1962.
  • Carl Engel : Obituary. In: MonBl. 1933, pp. 278f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Georg Schäfer, The Devonian Sediments of the Southern Black Forest Main Movement Zone (Böllen-Lenzkirch) . Published as volume 8 of the work from the Geological-Paleontological Institute of the Technical University of Stuttgart , 1957. p. 11
  2. ↑ Wiegers, On the structure and age of the Magdeburg Diluvium and the number of ice ages in Northern Germany, in: Jb. Of the Prussian Geological Institute for 1929, 1–124
personal data
SURNAME Werveke, Leopold van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Luxembourg geologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Diekirch
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1933
Place of death Magdeburg