Wilhelm Karl Julius Gutberlet

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Wilhelm Karl Julius Gutberlet (born August 5, 1813 in Schwebda , † September 17, 1864 in Gießen ) was a German teacher and geologist.

Petrographic map of the Kalvarienberg near Fulda (1853)

He inherited his scientific, especially mineralogical, interest from his father. After he was orphaned at the age of twelve, he followed his older brother Ernst, who studied theology, to Marburg and Rotenburg. In 1830 he took a practical course in the Riechelsdorfer mine in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district and in 1832 he began his studies at the University of Göttingen with Friedrich Hausmann . After completing his studies, he initially worked as a private teacher. After passing the state examination, he was commissioned to build a secondary school in Fulda, which he later headed as secondary school inspector and first director. The school still exists today as a grammar school called Freiherr-vom-Stein-Schule . He is considered to be the pioneer of the natural history association Fulda, which was founded one year after his death, today the Association for Natural History in East Hesse .

Following his old inclination, he undertook geological studies in the area around Fulda as well as the Rhön Mountains and the Vogelsberg . He mainly devoted himself to the volcanic rocks basalt , trachyte and phonolite and their relationships to one another. He was a member of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors , the Jena Mineralogical Society, the German Geological Society (serial number 58 of the first 170 members in 1849), the Society for the Promotion of Natural Sciences in Marburg , the Wetterau Society and the Middle Rhine Geological Association Darmstadt . He died while attending the meeting of naturalists.

In 1907 Hugo Bücking wrote about Gutberlet's work that almost 50 years after his death, “everything that Sandberger ... and Gümbel ... later shared as established facts about the mutual age relationships of the Rhone igneous rocks is based on the already Geological classification of the volcanic rocks of the Rhön recognized by Gutberlet in 1845 and later explained in detail several times.

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His work comprises 31 titles and brought some new aspects to the geological and mineralogical research of the time. His geognostic and geological observations of the Kalvarienberg near Fulda from 1853 include the first detailed geological map of the region, as well as what is probably the oldest profile drawing from the area.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b VNO history
  2. ↑ a b c Christian Aschenbrenner: Contributions to the history of geological research on the Rhön in Hans Dieter Nüdling (ed.): 100 Years of Franz Karl Nüdling - From Falling to an Industrial Company from 1893 to 1993 , self-published in 1993, p. 79
  3. ↑ Members of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors 1857
  4. ^ Journal of the German Geological Society, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1849, p. 40 List of the members of the DGG 1849
  5. ↑ Note: Over the gallows ditch ( position )
personal data
SURNAME Gutberlet, Wilhelm Karl Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwebda
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 1864
Place of death to water