Karl Ludwig Fridolin von Sandberger

Carl Ludwig Ritter von Fridolin Sandberger ( born November 22, 1826 in Dillenburg, † April 12, 1898 in Würzburg ) was a German geologist, palaeontologist and mineralogist.

Life

The son of a theologian and botanist Johann Philipp Sandberger (1782-1844) studied in Bonn, Gießen, Heidelberg and Marburg. He became in 1843 a member of the fraternity Fridericia Bonn and later in Heidelberg member of the fraternity and the fraternity Teutonia Allemannia. In 1849 he became head of the Natural History Museum in Wiesbaden. In 1855 he was appointed to a professorship of mineralogy and geology at the Polytechnic Karlsruhe; In 1863 he accepted an appointment at the University of Würzburg. He has published extensively in the fields of mineralogy, geology and paleontology.

1856 Sandy Berger was charged with the organization of the " geological mapping in the Grand Duchy of Baden " in the scale of 1:50,000. The first official geological map of Baden, the sheet " section 40 garbage home ( environments of Badenweiler )" was recorded by Sandberger itself and was printed in 1858.

Sandberger was for decades a friend of Joseph Victor von Scheffel and this has led to several geological and paleontological poems that have become known as student songs. Examples are " Granite " and " The Ichthyosaurus ".

His brother Guido Sandberger (1821-1879) was also a geologist, his son Adolf Sandberger was musicologist and composer.

Honors

Writings

  • Overview of the geological conditions of the Duchy of Nassau ( Wiesbaden, 1847)
  • Description and illustration of the fossils of the Rhenish -layer system ( Wiesbaden, 1848-52 )
  • The fossils of the Rhenish -layer system in Nassau. Kreidel & Niedner, Wiesbaden 1850-1856 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.52349
  • Studies on the Mainz Tertiary basins and their place in geological systems. Publisher of Kreidel and Niedner, Wiesbaden 1853 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.14988
  • The conches of the Mainz Tertiary basin ( Wiesbaden, 1858-64 ) doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.13953
  • Agriculture and Süßwasserkonchylien of antiquity ( Wiesbaden, 1870-76 )
  • Studies on veins (2 booklets, Wiesbaden, 1881 and 1885)
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