Robert Disk

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Robert Scheibe (born September 29, 1859 in Gera , Thuringia ; † March 3, 1923 in Bogotá , Colombia ) was a German geologist and mineralogist , university professor and secret mountain ridge

Robert Scheibe (around 1910)

Life

Robert Scheibe was born in Gera in 1859. He came from a middle-class family. His father was the master craftsman Karl Franz Scheibe and his mother Johanne Engelhardt was the daughter of the tailor Friedrich Engelhardt in Ronneburg.

Robert Scheibe mainly studied geology and mineralogy at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena , the University of Göttingen and the University of Halle . His doctorate as Dr. phil. in Halle took place in 1882 with a " crystallographic investigation of lupinine and its salts". In 1883, however, he passed his teaching qualification examinations ("pro facultate docendi" - corresponds to today's state examination for high school teachers) in the subjects of chemistry, mathematics, geography, mineralogy, botany and zoology. In his probationary year, Scheibe taught at the grammar school in Jauer in 1883/84 . His places of activity in Berlin were the Royal Prussian State Geological Institute (1885–1907) as an auxiliary geologist, as well as the Bergakademie Berlin (1907–1916) and the Technical University of Berlin , Department of Mining (1916–1923). At the Bergakademie Berlin , Scheibe became the assistant and deputy at lectures by Professor Christian Ernst Weiss . After his death in 1890, Robert Scheibe was appointed full-time teacher of mineralogy and in 1895 he was appointed professor at the Bergakademie. In 1910 he was awarded the title of Secret Mountain Ridge. Scheibe took part in numerous research trips and geological congresses - in Petersburg and in the Urals in 1897, in a gold mine in Portugal in 1898, in the Pyrenees and Paris in 1900, in Vienna and the Alps in 1903 and in Macedonia in 1907. In the summer of 1908 he was followed by a one-year vacation German South West Africa (today's Namibia) granted for the exploration of diamond deposits. In the southern part of the Namib Desert, he and August Stauch found numerous diamonds in the desert sand of the coast. He returned rich in experience and knowledge. He has often refuted the widespread view of the impractical scholar and expanded the collections of the Bergakademie. He became a member ( matriculation number 3211 ) of the Leopoldina Academy of Sciences in 1906.

Colombia

In February 1914, Robert Scheibe was given leave of absence from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to South America for a year. He lived in the German colony of Bogotá in Colombia. There he mainly researched the deposits of salt, coal and emeralds. His reports on these deposits earned him the highest recognition. The outbreak of World War I prevented his return to Germany. So he continued to devote himself to his research and was allowed to travel to Bolivia for six months in 1916. In the same year Robert Scheibe founded the Colombian State Geological Institute in Bogotá. Disk was appointed director and he was made honorary professor of Bogotá National University. It was not until the summer of 1920 that Robert Scheibe was able to travel to Berlin to join his family and students. Shaken by the changes in Germany and the effects of inflation, Scheibe decided to return to Colombia in May 1921 - torn between family, students and unfinished business in Bogotá. There he fell critically ill on an excursion in 1923 and died unexpectedly after a few days. In Bogotá, Robert Scheibe received a state funeral that was otherwise only granted to high-ranking people.

family

Robert Scheibe met his wife Anna Pentzlin in the house of his geologist friend Franz Beyschlag in Berlin and married her in 1891 on a Mecklenburg estate in Dinnies, near Sternberg. She was the daughter of the landowner Carl Pentzlin and Caroline Regelien. Anna Scheibe died in Kiel in 1962 with her daughter Anneliese (married to Erwin Howaldt ) and was buried with her husband in Bogotá. His son Ernst Albrecht Scheibe (* 1898 in Berlin, † 1992 Weilburg), was also a geologist and mining engineer.

Writings and works (selection)

  • Crystallographic examination of lupinine and its salts . Dissertation by Robert Scheibe, Halle 1882 (Halis; Saxonum; 1882; 40 p. 8 ")
  • with Christian Ernst Weiss , Ernst Zimmermann, Franz Beyschlag a . a .: Geological maps of Prussia and neighboring German countries (from 1889, mainly in the Thuringian Forest )
  • Geological walks in the Thuringian Forest . Fischer, Jena 1902
  • The blue ground of German South West Africa compared with that of English South Africa ; Ceremonial address given at the Act of the Royal Mining Academy to celebrate the birthday of His Majesty the Emperor and King Wilhelm II on January 27, 1906. Feister, Berlin 1906
  • with Ernst Zimmermann and Clemens Major: Profile of the Rennsteig . Publishing house d. Rennsteig Association, Ruhla 1915
  • Compilación de los estudios geológicos oficiales en Colombia . Ed. Cahur, Bogotá 1946

literature

  • Hermann Rauff : Commemorative speech in the TH in Berlin-Charlottenburg, 1923
  • Yearbook of the Prussian Geological State Institute in Berlin; 47 (1926), no. 2, pp. LXIII-LXXI
  • Pentzlin-Scheibe family chronicle, Schwerin 1932

Web links

Individual proof

  1. ↑ Olga Levinson: Diamonds in the Sand. The changeful life of August Stauch , pp. 77–81 u. a., 2007
  2. ^ Member entry by Robert Scheibe at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 7, 2018.
  3. ^ Letter from Professor Martini to Anna Scheibe, from Bogotá - March 1923
  4. ↑ The father Willibald Beyschlag was known as a theologian with the church councilor Julius Pentzlin .
  5. ↑ Meeting point Howaldt
personal data
SURNAME Disk, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and mineralogist, university professor and secret mountain ridge
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1923
Place of death Bogotá , Colombia