Friedrich (Fritz) Christoph Mühlberg (19 April 1840 in

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– 25 May 1915) was a

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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

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. In 1886, he married Emilie Sophie Sutermeister (1858-1922), a daughter of Ernestine Moehrlen and

Otto Sutermeister Friedrich Gottlieb Otto Sutermeister (27 September 1832 in Tegerfelden – 18 August 1901 in Aarau) was a Swiss folklorist and professor at the University of Berne who collected and revised numerous Folklore, folk tales, legends, fables, and pro ...

. Mühlberg mapped the eastern Jura and recognized that the Folded Jura was pushed up to the

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. In 1888 he received an

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of the

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. He also dealt with

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and the geology of the

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(

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), and was a defender of

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. His son was the geologist Max Mühlberg, his daughter Lily Mühlberg was a physician. In 1890,he was honoured by botanist Feer who published a

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genus of

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s from the North Caucus in the family

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, as '' Muehlbergella''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Muhlberg, Friedrich 19th-century Swiss geologists 1840 births 1915 deaths People from Aarau ETH Zurich alumni 20th-century Swiss geologists Swiss conservationists