Education
He studied at the universities of Würzburg and Munich, and from 1837 taught classes in natural sciences, agriculture and technology at the vocational school in Zweibrücken.
He studied at the universities of Würzburg and Munich, and from 1837 taught classes in natural sciences, agriculture and technology at the vocational school in Zweibrücken.
He was an older brother of geologist Karl Wilhelm von Gümbel. At this time, his interest in botany deepened, in particular, the morphological aspects of botany. In 1843 he relocated as a teacher of natural sciences to the vocational school in Landau, where in 1853 he was named rector of the institution.
The botanical genus Guembelia (family Grimmiaceae) was named after him by Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe.
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.