Wilhelm von Gümbel

Karl Wilhelm Gümbel or Karl Wilhelm von Gümbel after 1882 (11 February 1823 – 18 June 1898), German geologist, was born at Dannenfels, in the Palatinate of the Rhine, and is known chiefly by his researches on the geology of Bavaria. He wrote a two-volume work on the geology of Bavaria between 1888 and 1894. In 1845 he produced a map of the geology of Bavaria at a scale of 1:500,000 and it was printed in 1858. He was the brother of bryologist Wilhelm Theodor Gümbel (1812–1858).