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Christian Leopold von Buch was born at Stolpe in Pomerania, Prussia (now part of Angermunde, Brandenburg, Germany) on the 26th of April 1774; a member of an ancient and noble Prussian family.
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Reise Durch Norwegen Und Lappland, Zwenter Theil (German Edition)
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Travels Through Norway and Lapland During the Years 1806, 1807, and 1808 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Travels Through Norway and Lapland During the Years 1806, 1807, and 1808 It is not to be wondered at then that the inhabitants of Norway should in general feel a. Strong attachment for England, the country from whose friendship her chief advantages are derived, and from whose enmity she can only experience the most dreadful sufferings. M. Von Bnch tells us that at Christiania every appearance which had the least tendency to justify the English was anxiously laid hold of. Every measure of a hostile or unjustifiable nature they imputed to the ministry, and every action of kindness they uni formly imputed to the nation at large. Are we then to reward this nnofi'ending people, the only people 1n the world perhaps who are sincerely attached to us, by joining in a fruitless attempt to subject them to their hated neighbours? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Physicalische Beschreibung der Canarischen Inseln (Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science) (German Edition)
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The German geologist Leopold von Buch (1774-1853) was a fellow-student of Alexander von Humboldt, with whom he later did fieldwork that led to important advances in the understanding of the Jurassic system and the origins of basalt. In 1815 Buch and the Norwegian botanist Christian Smith spent several months in the Canary Isles, and the resulting book, which appeared in 1825, is one of Buch's most important publications. It contains three papers Buch had previously published in journals, on flora (1816), the 1730 eruption on Lanzarote (1818) and temperature (1820), with additional chapters on population, land area and economics, the measurement of altitude, mineralogy, and detailed comparative data on volcanoes around the world. The substantial introduction includes a journal that records Buch's enthusiasm for the islands' scenery, natural history and people, and an obituary of Smith, who died in 1816 on a research trip to the Congo.
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Über Dolomit als Gebirgsart (German Edition)
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Voyage En Norvège Et En Laponie, Fait ... 1806, 1807 Et 1808, Tr. Par J.B.B. Eyriés (French Edition)
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Leopold Von Buch: Sein Leben Und Seine Wissenschaftliche Bedeutung (German Edition)
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Christian Leopold von Buch
Edit Profilegeographer geologist scientist
Education
In 1790-1793 he studied at the mining school of Freiberg under Werner, one of his fellow-students there being Alexander von Humboldt. He afterwards completed his education at the universities of Halle and Gottingen.
Career
His Versuch einer mineralogischen Beschreibung von Landeck (Breslau, 1797) was translated into French (Paris, 1805), and into English as Attempt at a Mineralogical Description of Landeck (Edinburgh, 1810); he also published in 1802 Entwurf einer geognostischen Beschreibung von Schlesien (Geognostische Beobachtungen auf Reisen durch Deutschland und Italien, Band i. ). He was at this time a zealous upholder of the Neptunian theory of his illustrious master. In 1797 he met Humboldt at Salzburg, and with him explored the geological formations of Styria, and the adjoining Alps. In the spring of the following year, von Buch extended his excursions into Italy, where his faith in the Neptunian theory was shaken. In his previous works he had advocated the aqueous origin of basaltic and other formations. In 1799 he paid his first visit to Vesuvius, and again in 1805 he returned to study the volcano, accompanied by Humboldt and Gay Lussac. They had the good fortune to witness a remarkable eruption, which supplied von Buch with data for refuting many erroneous ideas then entertained regarding volcanoes. In 1802 he had explored the extinct volcanoes of Auvergne. The aspect of the Puy de Dome, with its cone of trachyte and its strata of basaltic lava, induced him to abandon as untenable the doctrines of Werner on the formation of these rocks. The scientific results of his investigations he embodied in his Geognostische Beobachtungen auf Reisen durch Deutschland und Italien (Berlin, 1802-1809). From the south of Europe von Buch repaired to the north, and spent two years among the Scandinavian islands, making many important observations on the geography of plants, on climatology and on geology. The details of these observations are given in his Reise durch Norwegen und Lappland (Berlin, 1810). In 1815 he visited the Canary Islands in company with Christian Smith, the Norwegian botanist. The physical description of the Canary Islands was published at Berlin in 1825, and this work alone is regarded as an enduring monument of his labours. After leaving the Canaries von Buch proceeded to the Hebrides and the coasts of Scotland and Ireland. Palaeontology also claimed his attention.
His geological excursions were continued without interruption till his 78th year. Eight months before his death he visited the mountains of Auvergne; and on returning home he read a paper on the Jurassic formation before the Academy of Berlin.
He died at Berlin on the 4th of March 1853.
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He showed that many of the erratic blocks on the North German plains must have come from Scandinavia. He also established the fact that the whole of Sweden is slowly but continuously rising above the level of the sea from Frederikshald to Abo. His observations of the Canary Islands convinced him that these and other islands of the Atlantic owed their existence to volcanic action of the most intense kind, and that the groups of islands in the South Sea are the remains of a pre-existing continent. He described in 1831 and later years a number of Cephalopods, Brachiopods and Cystidea, and pointed out their stratigraphical importance. Von Buch published in 1832 the magnificent Geological Map of Germany (42 sheets, Berlin).
Buch was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the first foreign member of the Geological Society of London. He was a recipient of Pour le Merite.
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Physicalische Beschreibung der Canarischen Inseln (Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science) (German Edition)
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Travels Through Norway and Lapland During the Years 1806, 1807, and 1808 (Classic Reprint)
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Reise Durch Norwegen Und Lappland, Zwenter Theil (German Edition)
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Über Dolomit als Gebirgsart (German Edition)
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Voyage En Norvège Et En Laponie, Fait ... 1806, 1807 Et 1808, Tr. Par J.B.B. Eyriés (French Edition)
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Leopold Von Buch: Sein Leben Und Seine Wissenschaftliche Bedeutung (German Edition)
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- Descripcion de la isla de Tenerife (Spanish Edition)
- Beiträge zur Bestimmung der Gebirgsformationen in Russland (German Edition)
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Physicalische Beschreibung der Canarischen Inseln (Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science) (German Edition)
Membership
In 1825, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Geological Society of London.
Personality
Von Buch had inherited from his father a fortune more than sufficient for his wants. His excursions were always taken on foot, with a staff in his hand, and the large pockets of his overcoat filled with papers and geological instruments. Under this guise, the passer-by would not easily have recognized the man whom Humboldt pronounced the greatest geologist of his time.
Connections
He was never married, and was unembarrassed by family ties.
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