Paul Bouvy Schorenberg
Paul Bouvy Schoren Berg ( Pablo de Bouwy Schorrenberg ) (* 1807 in Amsterdam , † 1867 /68 in Barcelona ) was a Dutch engineer and geologist.
He completed an engineering degree at the Mining School in Liège and was a military engineer. In the Belgian Revolution he campaigned for the separation of the Netherlands and Belgium and was banished. In 1835 he arrived in Mallorca. He works for a French lawyer in Palma who ran an iron mine in Luc Alcari, which soon went bankrupt. In 1837/38 he worked in the mine near Binissalem of a Catalan company. In 1839 he met Paul Verniere, who had just returned from Brazil, with whom he ran a copper mine in Montseny north of Barcelona from 1842–44 . In 1845 he returned to Mallorca and committed himself to the fight against malaria by draining the Prat de Sant Jordi on the edge of Palma and the lagoon of Alcúdia . In 1847 he introduced windmills to Mallorca. In the 1850s he discovered the Selva coal deposit . He described the geology of the island and the earthquake of 15 May 1851. The book The island of Mallorca by Henry Alexander Pagenstecher he translated into Spanish.
Fonts
- Ensayo de una descripcion geologica de la isla de Mallorca comparada con las islas y el litaral de la cuenca occidental del Mediterráneo ; Palma 1867
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://fabian.balearweb.net/post/57352
- ↑ http://mallorcaphotoblog.wordpress.com/2008/03/
- ↑ http://openlibrary.org/b/OL2679860M/isla_de_Mallorca
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schorenberg, Paul Bouvy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pablo Bouwy de Schorrenberg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch engineer and geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1807 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1867 |
| Place of death | Barcelona |