Robert Helbling

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Robert Helbling (born October 14, 1874 in Rapperswil , † December 29, 1954 in Walenstadt ) was a Swiss mountaineer , geologist , mining engineer , geodesist and pioneer of photogrammetry .

Life

The son of a pharmacist graduated from high school in Frauenfeld and Aarau . He studied geology at the Zurich Polytechnic and then mining science at the Technical Universities of Berlin and Aachen . In 1902 he was at Carl Schmidt at the University of Basel with a thesis on the ore deposits of Mont Chemin at Martigny in the Valais to Dr. phil. PhD. From 1906 to 1912 he carried out surveying work in the Andes , using stereophotogrammetry . In Switzerland he was one of the first to use stereo autography for recording new mountain maps and in photogeology . In 1909 he opened an office for stereo photogrammetry in Flums . In 1921 he co-founded the sales company Heinrich Wilds geodätische Instrumente AG (later Wild Heerbrugg AG ).

In 1949, ETH Zurich awarded him an honorary doctorate in natural sciences in recognition of his services to the development of photogeology and his pioneering work in the introduction of photogrammetry in Switzerland.

Helbling was the founder of the Academic Alpine Club Zurich in 1896. He was a colonel in the Swiss Army .

literature

  • E. Berchtold junior: Dr. phil., Dr. hc Robert Helbling (1874–1954). In: Surveying, photogrammetry, cultural technology. Vol. 94, 1996, p. 307 f. ( Digitized version ; with catalog raisonné).
  • Andreas Schellenberger: Dr. Robert Helbling (1874–1954) - between Aconcagua and Tupungato. In: Robert Kostka (Ed.): Aconcagua and the Andes to the Tropic of Capricorn. Weishaupt, Gnas 2006, ISBN 3-7059-0229-6 , pp. 80–85 ( PDF; 1.6 MB ).
  • Andreas Schellenberger: Robert Helbling - pioneer of stereophotogrammetry in the Argentine Andes and in Switzerland. In: Cartographica Helvetica, Issue 49 (2014), pp. 15–26 ( PDF; 8.3 MB ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c From Wild to Leica 70 years of company history 1921-1991. (PDF) Rudolf Simmen, accessed on December 23, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Helbling, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss mountaineer, geologist, mining engineer, geodesist and pioneer of photogrammetry
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Rapperswil
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1954
Place of death Walenstadt