Wilhelm Robert Nessig

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Wilhelm Robert Nessig (born June 17, 1861 in Wurzen ; † February 21, 1932 in Dresden ) was a German teacher and geologist .

Life

After graduating from secondary school in Wurzen at Easter 1879 , he began studying natural sciences and mathematics at the University of Leipzig . Hermann Credner and Ferdinand Zirkel were among his teachers . With a dissertation on the younger igneous rocks of the central Elba, which was made at the suggestion of a circle, he obtained his doctorate in April 1882. phil. In the following February he passed the state examination in the mathematical and scientific section.

After his one-year military service, which he served from April 1883 to March 1884 with the Royal Saxon Infantry Regiment No. 107 , he received a trial position at the Royal High School in his home town of Wurzen. In the autumn of 1885 he switched to primary school and mainly taught natural sciences and geography in boys 'and girls' classes at the 5th and 6th public schools in Leipzig .

At Easter 1889 he came to the Städtische Realschule in Leipzig , two years later he received a call to the Dreikönigschule in Dresden Neustadt. There he worked until he left school on July 1, 1924 due to physical complaints. In his time in Dresden he was in the autumn of 1891 to the permanent head teacher, 1907 Professor , 1916, teacher and 1920 the senior teacher appointed. In addition, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Mecklenburg Order of Griffins in 1902 and the Saxon War Merit Cross in 1917 .

In addition to teaching, he dealt with the geology of the Dresden area . With the Geological Excursions in the area around Dresden published in 1897/1898 , he presented a work that, together with Richard Beck's Geological Guide through the Dresden Elbe Valley , published in 1897, was extremely helpful for the geologically interested circles of Dresden and had a fruitful effect in school lessons.

Nessig was an active member of the Isis Natural Science Society in Dresden from 1893 to 1923 , in which he reported, among other things, on his studies of the sands in the vicinity of Dresden, observations of the Pomeranian coast and thin sections of rock from the Kaiserstuhl in Baden. After retiring from the Isis due to illness and doing school work, he continued to show a keen interest in geological work.

Robert Nessig died on February 21, 1932 in Dresden and was honored by Walther Fischer on March 10 of that year as part of a lecture about him at Isis.

Thanks to his widow Martha Nessig, the mineralogical and geological collections he had built became the property of the State Museum for Mineralogy, Geology and Prehistory in Dresden .

Publications

  • Comment on A. Penck ’s paper on the pyroxe-bearing rocks of the North Saxon porphyry region. In: Tschermaks Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen 5, pp. 85–86, Vienna 1883.
  • The younger igneous rocks of the middle Elba. In: Dissertation Leipzig; Journal of the German Geological Society 35, 1883, pp. 101-133, 4th Fig., Berlin 1883.
  • The sands around Dresden. In: Meeting reports and treatises of the Isis Natural Science Society , Dresden 1895, pp. 71–78.
  • Geological excursions in the area around Dresden. In: Annual report of the Dreikönigsschule Dresden-Neustadt 1897 and 1898; extended, with 2 plates, Dresden 1898 ( Digitalisat the slub Dresden ).
  • Diluvial sands near Dresden. In: Meeting reports and treatises of the Isis Natural Science Society , Dresden 1897, pp. 19-20.
  • Studies on the Dresden Haidesand. In: Meeting reports and treatises of the Isis Natural Science Society , Dresden 1898, pp. 27–32.
  • New deep boreholes. In: Meeting reports and treatises of the Isis Natural Science Society , Dresden 1899, pp. 16-18.
  • Deep drilling in the Dresdner Haide. In: Meeting reports and treatises of the Isis Natural Science Society , Dresden 1901, pp. 14–15.
  • Graphite-rich crushing products of the Lausitz granite. In: Meeting reports and treatises of the Isis Natural Science Society , Dresden 1902. pp. 61–62.
  • New deep well in Dresden. In: Meeting reports and treatises of the Isis Natural Science Society , Dresden 1906, pp. 24–27.
  • Observations in the Diluvium of the Pomeranian coast. In: Meeting reports and treatises of the Isis Natural Science Society , Dresden 1912. pp. 5–6.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig (ed.): JC Poggendorff - Biographical-literary concise dictionary of the exact natural sciences . 7a. JA Barth, Leipzig 1971, p. 454 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Mr. W. FISCHER honors the memory of the senior student councilor who died on February 21, 1932. R. Prof. Dr. ROBERT NESSIG . In: Gesellschaft Isis in Dresden (ed.): Meeting reports and papers . 1932, p. 40 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

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SURNAME Nessig, Wilhelm Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nessig, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Spice up
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1932
Place of death Dresden