Karl Rössler (6 May 1788, in
Wiesbaden – 23 August 1863, in
Hanau
Hanau () is a town in the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. It is located 25 km east of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main and is part of the Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region. Its Hanau Hauptbahnhof, station is a ...
) was a German manufacturer and
mineralogist.
After a business apprenticeship in
Frankfurt am Main, he acquired in 1818 a
hat factory, which he transformed into a highly successful company. He had a keen interest in the
geology, mineralogy and
paleontology of the
Wetterau, and accordingly, collected numerous minerals and fossils of the region. During his career, he worked closely with geologist
Leopold von Buch.
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In 1853 he was named director of the ''Wetterauische Gesellschaft'' (Hanau), and in 1858 became a member of the
Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. During the following year, he was a founding member of the ''
Freies Deutsches Hochstift
The Freies Deutsches Hochstift (Free German Foundation) is a literary association based in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. It is the owner of the Goethe House, the place where the playwright and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born and spent his ...
'' (Free German Foundation) in Frankfurt.
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In 1861 the mineral rösslerite was named in his honor by Johann Reinhard Blum. The fossil snail species ''Turbonilla roessleri'' ( Geinitz, 1852) also bears his name.][
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Publications
* ''Übersicht der Wichtigsten geognostischen und oryctognostischen Vorkommnisse der Wetterau und der zunächst angrenzenden Gegenden'', 1850/51 (with Gottfried Ludwig Theobald
Gottfried Ludwig Theobald (21 December 1810 in Allendorf – 15 September 1869 in Chur) was a German-Swiss geologist and cartographer.
He studied theology at the universities of Marburg and Halle, then served as a curate in Hanau. Being dis ...
) – Overview of primary geological and mineralogical incidents in Wetterau, etc.
* ''Über die Petrefacten im Zechstein der Wetterau'', 1851 – On petrification in the Zechstein
The Zechstein (German either from ''mine stone'' or ''tough stone'') is a unit of sedimentary rock layers of Middle to Late Permian (Guadalupian to Lopingian) age located in the European Permian Basin which stretches from the east coast of Englan ...
of Wetterau.Literärisches Handbuch für Geschichte und Landeskunde von Hessen ..., Volume 4
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References
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1788 births
1863 deaths
Scientists from Wiesbaden
German mineralogists
19th-century German geologists