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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 716 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARON KARL WILHELM VON GUMBEL (1823-1898)  , German geologist, was born at Dannenfels, in the Palatinate of the Rhine, on the 11th of
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February 1823, and is known chiefly by his researches on the geology of Bavaria . He received a
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practical and scientific
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education in
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mining at Munich and
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Heidelberg, taking the degree of Ph.D. at Munich in 1862; and he was engaged for a time at the colliery of St Ingbert and as a surveyor in that
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district . In 1851, when the
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Geological Survey of Bavaria was instituted, Gumbel was appointed chief geologist; in 1863 he was made honorary professor of geognosy and
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surveying at the university of Munich, and in 1879, Oberberg director of the Bavarian mining department with which the Geological Survey was incorporated . His geological map of Bavaria appeared in 1858, and the official memoir descriptive of the detailed
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work, entitled Geognostische Beschreibung
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des Konigreichs Bayern was issued in three parts (1861, 1868 and 1879) . He subsequently published his Geologie von Bayern in 2 vols . (1884-1894), an elaborate
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treatise on geology, with
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special reference to the geology of Bavaria . In the course of his long and active career he engaged in much palaeontological work: he studied the
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fauna of the Trias, and in 1861 introduced theterm Rhaetic for the uppermost division of that
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system; he supported at first the view of the organic nature of Eozoon (1866 and 1876), he devoted special attention to
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Foraminifera, and described those of the Eocene strata of the
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northern
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Alps (1868); he dealt also with Receptaculites (1875) which he regarded as a genus belonging to the Foraminif era . He died on the 18th of
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June 1898 .

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