Moritz Alphons Stübel

Moritz Alphons Stübel

Moritz Alphons Stübel (born July 26, 1835 in Leipzig , † November 10, 1904 in Dresden ) was a German naturalist and volcanologist.

Life

Moritz Alphons Stübel was born in Leipzig on July 26, 1835, the son of the lawyer and councilor Otto Moritz Stübel and Julie Stübel, née von der Beck. His mother died in 1836 when Stübel was barely a year old. After his father's death in 1849, Stübel and his two sisters Ida and Helene were brought up by their father's brother, City Judge Carl Julius Stübel . After Alphons graduated from high school in 1854, he began studying chemistry and mineralogy at the University of Leipzig in 1855 , which he broke off and continued in Heidelberg from 1859.

Stübel had already studied volcanoes during a stay in Italy in the late 1850s. After completing his studies, which included his doctorate, he stayed in Morocco and Madeira, among others, until the mid-1860s, where he carried out further volcanological studies. With Wilhelm Reiss , whom he met in 1865, Stübel undertook several research trips, including to Greece and South America. In addition to volcanological research, both were also archaeologically active. In 1877 Stübel returned from his research trip and settled in Dresden. In the following years he evaluated the results of his research trips and published numerous works including cultural-historical and ethnological content, such as the ruins of Tiahuanaco in the highlands of ancient Peru in 1892 . In 1878 he became a member of the Leopoldina . He was a corresponding member of the Thuringian-Saxon Association for Geography. In later years, Stübel worked closely with Theodor Wolf , whom he had met in Ecuador. Both dealt with volcanological questions. Stübel died in Dresden in 1904 and was cremated in the Gotha crematorium ; his grave is in the old Annenfriedhof .

Stübel had already transferred collections from his travels in South America to various museums during his lifetime: in addition to the Grassi Museum in Leipzig, the Dresden Museum of Ethnology and the Museum of Ethnology in Berlin were among the new owners. A cone of the Ksudatsch volcano in Kamchatka is named after Stübel .

Fonts

• History and description of the volcanic eruptions near Santorini from the earliest times to the present , Bassermann, Heidelberg 1868
• Sketches from Ecuador , Asher a. Co., Berlin 1886
• The ruins of Tiahuanaco in the highlands of old Peru , Hiersemann, Leipzig 1892
• The volcanic mountains of Ecuador , Asher u. Co., Berlin 1897
• Map of the volcanic mountains Antisana , Chacana , Sincholagua , Quinlindaña , Cotopaxi , Rumiñahui (volcano) and Pasocha , Weg, Leipzig 1903
• Martinique and St. Vincent , Weg, Leipzig 1903
• Retrospect on the eruption period of Mont Pelé on Martinique from 1902 to 1903 from a theoretical point of view , Weg, Leipzig 1904

bibliography

• In: Andreas Brockmann, Michaela Stüttgen (ed.): Searching for traces: Two earth scientists in South America in the 19th century . District of Unna and Latin America Center of the University of Münster, Unna 1994. ISBN 3-924210-34-9 . Pp. 191-193. (Catalog for the exhibition about Wilhelm Reiss and Alphons Stübel at Cappenberg Castle )

literature

• Walther Bergt : Alphons Stübel as researcher and person . (Manuscript in the archive for geography of the Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig from 1936)
• Babett Forster: Photographs as Collection Objects in the 19th Century: The Alphons Stübel Collection of Early Oriental Photographs . VDG, Weimar 2013. ISBN 978-3-89739-748-4 .
• Babett Forster: The Alphons Stübel Collection of Early Oriental Photographs . In: Ariane Lorke, Helmut Walther (ed.): Treasures of the University. The scientific collections of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena . IKS, Jena 2009. ISBN 978-3-938203-81-1 . Pp. 87-92.
• Ingrid Hönsch: Alphons Stübel's research trips in South America (1868–1877) as reflected in his travel letters . In: Andreas Brockmann, Michaela Stüttgen (ed.): Searching for traces: Two earth scientists in South America in the 19th century . District of Unna and Latin America Center of the University of Münster, Unna 1994. ISBN 3-924210-34-9 . Pp. 21-40. (Catalog for the exhibition about Wilhelm Reiss and Alphons Stübel at Cappenberg Castle)
• Ingrid Hönsch: Work and achievements of selected research personalities: Alphons Stübel, 1835–1904 . In: Alois Mayr, Frank-Dieter Grimm, Sabine Tzschaschel (eds.): 100 Years of the Institute for Regional Geography 1896–1996 . Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig 1996 (= contributions to regional geography, vol. 40). ISBN 3-86082-021-4 . Pp. 43-47.
• Hans Meyer: Alphons Stübel . In: Communications from the Geography Association in Leipzig , year 1904, pp. 57–78.
• Horst Rast: Alphons Stübels importance as an explorer and volcanologist . In: Geographical Reports. Communications of the Geographische Gesellschaft eV ISSN  0016-7452 , Issue 117, Gotha 1985, pp. 225-235.

Web links

• Alphons Stübel collection of early oriental photography from the University of Jena
• Finding aid Moritz Alphons Stübel (pdf) (991 kB)
• Short biography of the Krone collection at the Institute for Applied Photophysics Dresden
• Article in Spanish in the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia
• Klaus-Peter Kästner: Stübel, Moritz Alphons . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
• Moritz Alphons Stübel in the Stadtwiki Dresden

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Member entry of Alphons Stübel at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 26, 2016.
2. ^ Directory of the members of the Thuringian-Saxon Geography Association on March 31, 1885 ( Memento from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ death survey . In: Dresdner Geschichtsblätter , No. 4, 1905, p. 68.
4. ^ Ksudatsch near volcanoes of Kamchatka (Russian, accessed April 8, 2013).