Ludwig Rumpf

This article deals with the chemist and mineralogist Ludwig Rumpf; on the police adviser and detective see Ludwig Rumpff .

Ludwig Rumpf

Ludwig Daniel Rumpf (born November 22, 1793 in Bamberg , † January 17, 1862 in Würzburg ) was a German chemist and mineralogist. He was Professor of Mineralogy and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Würzburg and Conservator at the University's Mineralogical Cabinet .

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Ludwig Rumpf's father was the pharmacist and professor of chemistry Ernst Friedrich Felix Rumpf (1764–1849). His sister Susanna was married to the anatomy professor Martin Münz . The physician Andreas Rumpf , who was 2 years his senior, was his brother, the literary scholar Friedrich Karl Rumpf his uncle and the physician Ernst Schmidt was his nephew. Ludwig Rumpf was married and had several children. One daughter was married to the Reich judge Karl von Braun .

After attending grammar school in Bamberg, Ludwig Rumpf studied medicine and natural sciences in Göttingen , Erlangen and Landshut , where he qualified as a professor for mineralogy in 1824. His teacher there was Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs . After the University of Landshut was relocated to Munich, he went to Würzburg in 1826, where he taught general chemistry and pharmacy as well as natural history and economics, and succeeded Ambrosius Rau in 1830 as associate professor for mineralogy and in 1836 as full professor for mineralogy and pharmaceutical chemistry. His lecturing activities also extended to the medical faculty, from 1837 he was a member of the district medical committee, worked as a pharmacist at the Juliusspital and in 1838 he became a member of the medical faculty.

In 1842 and 1843 he described the first fossilized tracks of land vertebrates ( chirotherium ) from the red sandstone of Franconia, which the local pastor Josef Vorbeck had discovered in the red sandstone of Aura an der Saale in 1841 .

He was considered a connoisseur of the geology and palaeontology of the Würzburg area, but published little (at the time of his death, however, he was preparing a larger work). However, although he belonged to the medical faculty, he preferred to read about paleontology and less about pharmaceutical chemistry and was tireless in expanding the mineralogical and paleontological collection of the university (one contemporary spoke of an irresistible intrusiveness that no one could resist ). He also left his own collection of over 1,000 pieces to the university.

He was friends with the paleobotanists August Schenk and Johann Lukas Schönlein , to whom he made fossils accessible, and corresponded with William Buckland , to whom he sent Würzburg lying stones . He was an honorary member of the natural research society in Bamberg and a corresponding member of the Mineralogical Society in Jena. On November 28, 1821, he was elected a member (matriculation no. 1229) of the Leopoldina with the academic surname Brunnichius .

Ludwig Rumpf belonged to numerous scientific societies and was also a Freemason and a member of the Freemason Lodge Lebanon to the three Ceders in the Orient of Erlangen.

The Triassic fern Symopteris rumpfii (SCHENK 1864) was named after Ludwig Rumpf (Cycadites Rumpfii SCHENK), which he found in the Keuper of Estenfeld .

He was succeeded by Fridolin von Sandberger , who was professor of geology in Würzburg from 1863.

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• About natural science and natural scientific systems with special application to inorganic cognosity and inorganic cognostic systems , Georg Romuald Klebsadel, Bamberg 1820 Google Books
• Trail prints from the colorful sandstone to Aura an der Saale; living frog in the shell limestone near Höchberg ; Fragment of an antler from the Steinberge near Würzburg; Trigonotreta fragilis and Placodus gigas Agass. from the local shell limestone; Dolomite as the uppermost link of the Muschelkalk formation belongs to the Keuper structure. In: New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geognosy, Geology and Petrefacts Customer, 1842, 450–451 Archives , Plate VIII Archives
• About animal tracks in the colored sandstone near Aura; Horseshoe-like impressions in the colored sandstone of Elfershausen . In: New yearbook for mineralogy, geognosy, geology and Petrefacten customer, 1843, 705–707 archive
• Result of the investigation of the route from Monheim near Neuburg an der Donau . In: New yearbook for mineralogy, geognosy, geology and petrefacts customer, 1844, 325 archives
• About Bavarian Smirgel. In: A. Buchner (Ed.): New Repertory for Pharmacy, IV, Christian Kaiser, Munich 1855, pp. 405–406 BSB digital

literature

• M. Buchner, From the past of the University of Würzburg 1932 (with Rumpf's list of publications)
• Honorary members of the natural research society in Bamberg, status May 1860 In: Fifth report of the natural research society in Bamberg, Reindl, Bamberg 1861 p. V-VI archive
• Heinrich Joachim Jäck : Second pantheon of the writers and artists of Bamberg from the XI centuries to 1843, Bamberg 1843, p. 90 google books
• Klaus-Peter Kelber , Martin Okrusch : The geological exploration and mapping of the Würzburg city area from the beginning to 1925. In: Mainfränkische Hefte. No. 105, pp. 71-115, Würzburg 2006. PDF
• August Schenk: Contributions to the knowledge of the Keuper and the rhaetian formation, Bamberg 1864, p. 111 archive
• Directory of the members of the just and perfect Freemason Lodge Lebanon to the three cedars in the Orient from Erlangen, Hilpert, Am Iohannisfeste 5818 (misprint, = 1818), p. 5 google books
• Thomas Sauer, Ralf Vollmuth : Letters from members of the Würzburg medical faculty in the estate of Anton Ruland. Sources on the history of medicine in the 19th century with short biographies. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 9, 1991, pp. 135-206; here: p. 174 f.

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Rumpf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gümbel, Carl Wilhelm von:  Rumpf, Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 667.
• Ludwig Rumpf's membership entry at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on December 4, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 254 (archive.org)