Friedrich Mühlberg
Friedrich (Fritz) Christoph Mühlberg | |
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![]() Friedrich Mühlberg | |
Born | 19 April 1840 |
Died | 25 May 1915 Aarau, Switzerland | (age 75)
Nationality | Swiss |
Citizenship | Swiss |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Geology |
Friedrich (Fritz) Christoph Mühlberg (born 19 April 1840 in Aarau, died May 25, 1915) was a Swiss geologist.
Life[]
Mühlberg went to school in Aarau from 1859 and studied botany, geology and chemistry at the Polytechnic School in Zurich and got his diploma in Chemistry in 1861. After he was a teacher at the cantonal school in Zug and, from 1866, in Aarau, where he was also teacher of Albert Einstein.[1]
In 1886, he married Emilie Sophie Sutermeister (1858-1922), a daughter of Ernestine Moehrlen and Otto Sutermeister.[1]
Mühlberg mapped the eastern Jura and recognized that the was pushed up to the Table Jura. In 1888 he received an honorary degree of the University of Basel. He also dealt with hydrogeology and the geology of the Quaternary (ice ages), and was a defender of nature conservation.[1]
His son was the geologist , his daughter Lily Mühlberg was a physician.[2]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Friedrich Mühlberg in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
- ^ Literature by and about Friedrich Mühlberg in the German National Library catalogue
- 19th-century Swiss geologists
- 1840 births
- 1915 deaths
- People from Aarau
- ETH Zurich alumni
- 20th-century Swiss geologists
- Swiss conservationists