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See also:BARON KARL WILHELM VON See also:GUMBEL (1823-1898) , See also:German geologist, was See also:born at Dannenfels, in the See also:Palatinate of the See also:Rhine, on the 11th of See also:February 1823, and is known chiefly by his researches on the See also:geology of See also:Bavaria . He received a See also:practical and scientific See also:education in See also:mining at See also:Munich and See also:Heidelberg, taking the degree of Ph.D. at Munich in 1862; and he was engaged for a See also:time at the colliery of St Ingbert and as a surveyor in that See also:district . In 1851, when the See also:Geological Survey of Bavaria was instituted, See also:Gumbel was appointed See also:chief geologist; in 1863 he was made honorary See also:professor of geognosy and See also:surveying at the university of Munich, and in 1879, Oberberg director of the Bavarian mining See also:department with which the Geological Survey was incorporated . His geological See also:map of Bavaria appeared in 1858, and the See also:official memoir descriptive of the detailed See also:work, entitled Geognostische Beschreibung See also: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 on geology, with See also:special reference to the geology of Bavaria . In the course of his See also:long and active career he engaged in much palaeontological work: he studied the See also:fauna of the Trias, and in 1861 introduced theterm See also:Rhaetic for the uppermost See also:division of that See also:system; he supported at first the view of the organic nature of Eozoon (1866 and 1876), he devoted special See also:attention to See also:Foraminifera, and described those of the See also:Eocene strata of the See also:northern See also: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 1898 . |
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