Wilhelm von Gümbel

[citation needed] He was engaged for a time in the saltworks and then at the colliery of St Ingbert and as a surveyor in that district.

[3][1] His geological map of Bavaria appeared in 1858, and the official memoir descriptive of the detailed work, entitled Geognoslische Beschreibung des Konigreichs Bayern was issued in three parts (1861, 1868 and 1879).

In the course of his long and active career he engaged in much palaeontological work: he studied the fauna of the Triassic and in 1861 introduced the term Rhaetic for the uppermost division of that system; he supported at first the view of the organic nature of Eozoon canadense (1866 and 1876), he devoted special attention to Foraminifera, and described those of the Eocene strata of the northern Alps (1868); he dealt also with Receptaculites (1875) which he regarded as a genus belonging to the Foraminifera.

Februar 1875 in der Grafschaft Iowa Nordamerika"[4] and "Über die in Bayern gefundenen Steinmeteoriten",[5] respectively, both important qualitative and quantitative essays on the physical properties of meteorites.

Following his wishes he was cremated in Gotha and an urn was placed in Munich which was destroyed during World War II.