Friedrich Mühlberg

Friedrich (Fritz) Christoph Mühlberg
Friedrich Mühlberg
Born19 April 1840
Aarau, Switzerland
Died25 May 1915 (1915-05-26) (aged 75)
Aarau, Switzerland
NationalitySwiss
CitizenshipSwiss
Scientific career
FieldsGeology

Friedrich (Fritz) Christoph Mühlberg (19 April 1840 in Aarau – 25 May 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 Folded Jura 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 Max Mühlberg, his daughter Lily Mühlberg was a physician.[2]

In 1890,he was honoured by botanist Feer who published a monotypic genus of flowering plants from the North Caucus in the family Campanulaceae, as Muehlbergella.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c Friedrich Mühlberg in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
  2. ^ Literature by and about Friedrich Mühlberg in the German National Library catalogue
  3. ^ "Muehlbergella Feer | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 22 May 2021.