Urban Schlönbach
Urban Schlönbach (born March 10, 1841 on the saltworks Salzliebenhalle near Salzgitter-Bad ; † August 13, 1870 in Berzasca , Romania ) was a German geologist and paleontologist in Vienna and Prague.
Life
As the son of the salt works inspector Albert Schlönbach , he attended the Ratsgymnasium Goslar and (presumably) the new Scharnhorstgymnasium Hildesheim . At the Georg-August University in Göttingen he studied natural sciences with chemistry as a major. In 1860 he became active in the Corps Hildeso-Guestphalia Göttingen . After two semesters, he moved to the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . Taken for geology by Friedrich August von Quenstedt , he went to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich at Easter 1861 . Under Albert Oppel he devoted himself entirely to geological palaeontology . With Lukas Waagen , Casimir Mösch and Amanz Greßly he visited the northern German and Swiss Jura regions . In autumn 1862 he went to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , where he worked under Ernst Beyrich and Gustav Rose . In 1863 he was at the University of Halle for Dr. phil. PhD .
In 1864, Schlönbach traveled to the Jura regions in western Germany and France. After he had rejected a professorship in Peru at a new mining academy to be established there, he was appointed to the Imperial Geological Institute in Vienna in autumn 1867 . He traveled to Bohemia several times and examined the Cretacian deposits.
His “very exceptional scientific achievements” earned him the reputation of Charles University for its chair in mineralogy , geology and paleontology. Before taking office in August 1870, he wanted to complete a geological map of the Banat . He traveled to the inhospitable area of the military border from Serbia to the Banat. Exhausted and ill, he died there at the age of only 29.
"What Schlönbach has achieved during the few years of his scientific activity ensures his name an immortality in geological science."
Works
- About a few known ammonites . Palaeontographica, vol. 13
- About the brachiopods from the lower Gault von Ahaus in Westphalia . Journal of the German Geological Society, 1866
- Critical studies of the Cretaceous brachiopods . Palaeontographica, Vol. 13 (6): 267-332, 1866 - digitized
- About brachiopods of the north German Cenoman formations . Benecke's geognostic-palaeontological contributions, Vol. I (2): 399-506, 1867 - digitized
literature
- Wilhelm von Gümbel: Schlönbach, Urban . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 527 f.
- Edmond Hébert : Nekrolog . Bulletin de la Société geologique de France , III. Ser. I, 298
- Heinz Kolbe, Günter Scheel: Schloenbach, Georg Justin Karl Urban . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 525 f .
- Emil Tietze : In memory of U. Schlönbach . Yearbook of the Geological Reichsanstalt 1872, p. 59
Web links
- Berzasca (Eng. WP)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 46/64.
- ↑ Dissertation: The iron stone of the middle Lias in northwest Germany . Published in the journal of the German Geological Society, vol. 15
- ↑ Numerous essays and travelogues are preserved in the diary and in the reports of the meetings of the Reichsanstalt (1867–1869).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schlönbach, Urban |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schlönbach, Georg Justin Karl (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1841 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liebenhall ( Salzgitter ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 1870 |
| Place of death | Berzasca, Romania |