See also:

• BARON
• BARON (1835-1895)
• BARON, MICHEL (1653—1729)

BARON KARL WILHELM VON See also:

• BARON KARL WILHELM VON GUMBEL (1823-1898)

GUMBEL (1823-1898)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German geologist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Dannenfels, in the See also:

• PALATINATE (Ger. Pfalz)

Palatinate of the See also:

• RHINE (Lat. Rhenus, Ger. Rhein, Fr. Rhin, Dutch Rhyn, or Rijn)

Rhine, on the 11th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1823, and is known chiefly by his researches on the See also:

• GEOLOGY (from Gr. yp7, the earth, and Abyor, science)

geology of See also:

• BAVARIA (Ger. Bayern)

Bavaria . He received a See also:

• PRACTICAL

practical and scientific See also:

• EDUCATION

education in See also:

• MINING

mining at See also:

• MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

Munich and See also:

• HEIDELBERG

Heidelberg, taking the degree of Ph.D. at Munich in 1862; and he was engaged for a See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time at the colliery of St Ingbert and as a surveyor in that See also:

• DISTRICT

district . In 1851, when the See also:

• GEOLOGICAL

Geological Survey of Bavaria was instituted, See also:

• GUMBEL, KARL WILHELM VON, BARON (1823-1898)

Gumbel was appointed See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief geologist; in 1863 he was made honorary See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of geognosy and See also:

• SURVEYING

surveying at the university of Munich, and in 1879, Oberberg director of the Bavarian mining See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department with which the Geological Survey was incorporated . His geological See also:

• MAP
• MAP (or MAPES), WALTER (d. c. 1208/9)

map of Bavaria appeared in 1858, and the See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official memoir descriptive of the detailed See also:

• WORK

work, entitled Geognostische Beschreibung See also:

• DES

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 See also:

• TREATISE

treatise on geology, with See also:

• SPECIAL

special reference to the geology of Bavaria . In the course of his See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long and active career he engaged in much palaeontological work: he studied the See also:

• FAUNA

fauna of the Trias, and in 1861 introduced theterm See also:

• RHAETIC (Fr. Rhetien or Rhcetien; Ger. Rhdt or Rhktisch; It. Retico)

Rhaetic for the uppermost See also:

• DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division of that See also:

• SYSTEM

system; he supported at first the view of the organic nature of Eozoon (1866 and 1876), he devoted special See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to See also:

• FORAMINIFERA

Foraminifera, and described those of the See also:

• EOCENE (Gr. *In, dawn, icauvos, recent)

Eocene strata of the See also:

• NORTHERN

northern See also:

• ALPS

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 See also:

• JUNE

June 1898 .