Carl Wilhelm von Gümbel

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Carl Wilhelm von Gümbel

Carl Wilhelm Gümbel , Knight of Gümbel since 1882 , (born February 11, 1823 in Dannenfels , Palatinate , † June 18, 1898 in Munich ) was a German geologist .

Life

Carl Wilhelm Gümbel was the son of the royal district forester Johann Friedrich Gümbel (1775–1841) and Charlotte Roos (1781–1862). The bryologist Wilhelm Theodor Gümbel was his brother.

After obtaining his school- leaving certificate , he began studying chemistry , zoology and mineralogy at the University of Munich in 1842 . He spent semesters abroad at the universities of Heidelberg and Bonn . In 1848 he finished his studies in Munich with the examination for the mining civil service.

In 1850 he took up his first job as a surveyor at the St. Ingbert Mining Authority. On the recommendation of Ernst Heinrich von Dechen , in 1851 he became a member of the newly established commission for the geognostic investigation of Bavaria, which became his life's work. In the following years a compendium of over 3000 pages was created with the geognostic description of the Bavarian Alpine region , its foreland , the eastern Bavarian border mountains, the Fichtelgebirge and the Franconian Forest as well as the Franconian Alb with the Keup foreland .

In 1863 he was appointed honorary professor for geology and the art of marrowing at the University of Munich. In 1869 he was accepted as a full member of the Kgl. Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1882 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown and, based on the statutes of the order, was raised to the personal nobility by King Ludwig II . On March 10, 1893 he received the commander of this order.

Gümbel coined the terms rain porphyry and rhaetic formation as well as Seefeld layers . The geoscientific collection of the State Office for the Environment , founded by Matthias von Flurl , has been considerably expanded with the addition of supporting material and associated files. From 1851 he carried out a systematic geognostic research of Bavaria. It is thanks to him to have described about twenty types of rock for the first time.

His son was the archivist Albert Gümbel (1866–1931).

Awards

  • 1855: 2nd class medal, awarded on the occasion of the World Exhibition in Paris
  • 1862: Honorary doctorate from the University of Jena , May 23
  • 1862: Prize medal, awarded on the occasion of the World Exhibition in London
  • 1862: Appointment as extraordinary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, November 28th
  • 1863: Appointment as honorary professor of geognosy and marrow cutting art of the philosophical faculty of the Royal University of Munich
  • 1868: Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Royal Order of Merit of St. Michael , December 31, bestowed by King Ludwig II.
  • 1875: Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • 1882: Appointment as a member of the Royal Maximilians Order for Science and Art , December 28, bestowed by King Ludwig II.
  • 1883: Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Duke Saxe-Ernestine House Order , July 26th, awarded by Duke Ernst of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
  • 1887: Membership in the chapter of the Maximilian Order, July 4th, May 7th 1892 and June 11th 1897 extended by 5 years by Prince Regent Luitpold
  • 1889: Honorary citizenship of the city of Munich , appointed on January 1st
  • 1889: Knight 2nd class of the Order of Merit of St. Michael, December 27th, bestowed by Prince Regent Luitpold
  • 1895: Commander's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown , September 25.

Honors

  • 1895: Gümbelina ruthenica, naming of a fossil half coral by Otto Kuntze
  • 1896: Gümbelites, naming of an Upper Triadic ammonite by Edmund Mojsisovics von Mojsvár
  • 1899: Gümbelstraße, named in Munich. Further Gümbelstraßen in Amberg (Opf.) And Peißenberg (Obb.) Followed.
  • 1933: Gümbelitria, naming of a genus of foraminifera by Joseph Augustine Cushman
  • 1940: Gümbelitrielle Tappan, naming a fossil foraminifera
  • 1971: Guembelitriodides, naming a fossil foraminifera
  • 1999: Honor roll at Gümbel's birthplace in Dannenfels
  • 2005: Protective rock cave, appointment of the cave that Gümbel discovered as a special feature in the Max-Schultze-Steig nature reserve near Regensburg as geotope number 56 in the list of the most important geotopes in Bavaria.
  • 2007: Carl-Wilhelm-von-Gümbel-Höhle, naming of the cave in the nature reserve Max-Schultze-Steig in Regensburg in honor of the geologist who made a significant contribution to this area.

Fonts (selection)

  • About equating the rock masses in the northeastern Alps with non-alpine flötz layers. In: Official report on the fourth and thirtieth gathering of German natural scientists a. Doctors in Carlsruhe in September 1858. Eisenlohr and Volz, Karlsruhe 1859, pp. 80–88, GoogleBooks
  • Geognostic description of the Kingdom of Bavaria, first division . 1861, limited preview in Google Book search, limited preview in Google Book search
  • Geognostic description of the Kingdom of Bavaria, Second Division, 1868 limited preview in Google book search = archive.org , limited preview in Google book search, limited preview in Google book search
  • Over Clymenia in the transition formations of the Fichtelgebirge. In: Palaeontographica. Contributions to the natural history of the prehistoric world. Volume 11, Third Delivery. September 1863, pp. 85-165, archive.org
  • The geognostic exploration of Bavaria: speech at the public meeting of the k. Academy of Sciences held on March 28, 1877 to celebrate its one hundred and eighteenth foundation days . Munich 1877 archive.org = limited preview in the Google Book Search USA
  • Geognostic Description of the Kingdom of Bavaria, Third Department, 1879 archive.org = limited preview in the Google Book Search USA
  • Geognostic description of the Kingdom of Bavaria, Fourth Division, Geognostic description of the Franconian Alb (Frankenjura) , Kassel 1891 archive.org = limited preview in the Google Book Search USA

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Wilhelm von Gümbel  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member entry BAdW Wilhelm Ritter von Gümbel
  2. ↑ lfu.bayern.de
  3. ^ Member entry of Karl Wilhelm Ritter von Gümbel at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 1, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Gümbel, Carl Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gümbel, Carl Wilhelm; Gümbel, Carl Ritter von; Gümbel, Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Dannenfels , Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1898
Place of death Munich