Wilhelm von Gümbel
Carl Wilhelm Gümbel, since 1882 Knights of Gumbel ( born February 11, 1823 in Dannenberg Rock, Pfalz, † June 18, 1898 in Munich) was a German geologist.
Life
Carl Wilhelm Gumbel was born the son of the royal forester Johann Friedrich Gümbel (1775-1841) and Charlotte Roos ( 1781-1862 ). After the acquisition of the secondary school leaving certificate, he took in 1842 at the University of Munich to study chemistry, zoology and mineralogy. In 1847 he moved to the University of Heidelberg, where he finished his studies in 1848 with the examination for mining civil service.
In 1850 he took a first job as a mine surveyor at the Mining Office St. Ingbert. On the recommendation of Ernst Heinrich von Dechen, he became in 1851 a member of the newly established Commission for geognostical investigation of Bavaria, which became his life's work. In the following years, a more than 3000 -page compendium of geognostical description of the Bavarian Alps area, its foothills, the Eastern Bavarian border mountains, the Fichtelgebirge and the Franconian Forest and the Franconian Alb with the Keuper foreland arose.
In 1863 he was appointed Honorary Professor of Geology and Mine Art at the University of Munich. In 1869 he was a member of inclusion in the Royal. Bavarian Academy of Sciences. In 1882 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown and levied under the Order Statutes in the personal nobility.