Wolfgang Moritz Vogelgesang

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Wolfgang Moritz Vogelgesang (born July 29, 1826 in Dippoldiswalde , † October 4, 1888 in Mannheim ) was a German mining specialist , geologist, curator and high school professor.

Life

After home schooling, attending a lyceum and the Kreuzschule in Dresden, Wolfgang Moritz Vogelgesang began studying mining at the Freiberg Bergakademie in 1843 . In 1844 he became a member of the Corps Saxo-Borussia . He completed his academic training in 1847 and completed his practical training until 1848 at the old murder pit near Freiberg. From November 1848 he carried out some scientific investigations at the Commission for Geognostic Studies of the Kingdom of Saxony . In the years 1851 and 1852 he worked as a shift supervisor at various mines in the Freiberg Mining Authority area. In 1853 he became the first employee of the Gersdorfer Bergwerk Segen Gottes Erbstolln . In 1856 he moved to the Kinzigthaler Bergwerksgesellschaft as a mining engineer . After this had to cease operations in 1857, he changed at the end of the year as administrator of the iron ore mining in the Kinzig valley and the Hausach iron and steel works in Fürstlich Fürstenbergische Dienst. After managing the dissolution of these unprofitable activities in 1859, he was commissioned in 1860 to organize, set up and catalog the Princely Fürstenberg Natural History Collection in Hüfingen Castle .

At the end of 1863 he was commissioned to conduct a geognostic investigation and description of the Principality of Fürstenberg . From 1867 to 1869 he was involved in the geological survey commissioned by the Baden Ministry of Commerce. During this time he also gave public scientific lectures in Donaueschingen and Villingen, as a result of which he was appointed professor at the Mannheim Realgymnasium in September 1869 . In 1871/71 he put together a 600-piece geological school collection . In 1873 he became director of the grammar school, which he headed until his death.

In 1871 he was one of the founding members of the Upper Rhine Geological Association . Birdsong was first held in the Upper Muschelkalk of Germany, which until then was considered a coral free, a coral Heinrich Adolf von Eck in his honor Latimaeandra Vogelsangi named and currently serves as Substuoresia vogelsangi (ECK 1879) determined will.

In older literature, he is often confused with the petrograph and co-founder of rock microscopy Hermann Peter Joseph Vogelsang .

Fonts (selection)

  • Geognostic and mining description of the Kinzigthaler mining industry , 1865
  • Expert opinion on the drilling of rock salt near Donaueschingen , 1868
  • The organization of the secondary school in Mannheim , 1885
  • Gaea von Mannheim: a geological sketch , 1886

literature

  • Cornelia Kluth: Wolfgang Moritz Vogelgesang: An important mining specialist, geologist and school man of the 19th century . In: Writings of the Association for History and Natural History of the Baar in Donaueschingen , Volume 34, 1982, pp. 116–184, ISBN 3-88277-007-4 ( digital copy ; PDF; 41.4 MB)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Calendar for the Saxon mountain and hut man for the year 1844 ( Memento from July 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.0 MB), p. 188
  2. ^ Adolf Berve, Herbert Dieter Nienhaus, Kurt Schröter, Gerhard Voigt, Karl Heinz Weber: Chronicle of the Corps Saxo-Montania zu Freiberg and Dresden in Aachen, Part II - Corps Saxo-Borussia Freiberg i. Sa. 1842-1935 (1951) , main section II, pp. 277, 285
personal data
SURNAME Bird song, Wolfgang Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Montanist, geologist and high school professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Schmiedeberg
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1888
Place of death Mannheim