La enseñanza y los catedráticos de las materias geológicas en la Universidad Central durante el siglo XIX

Resumen

The diverse decrees and royal orders that regulated the Spanish Higher Education during the 19thcentury contemplated the teaching of specific subjects of geological sciences. This way subjectslike Mineralogy Geology Paleontology and, finally Crystallography were included in the successive curricula approved between 1843 and 1900. In this work and because the Universidad Central de Madrid was the unique university in Spain where the Bachelor in Natural Sciences wastaught the different modifications related to the geological subjects in this university are commented. Mineralogy was the first subject that appeared in the curricula of Natural Sciences, which wastaught by Christian Herrgen, Donato García, Juan Lopez Chavarri and Miguel Maisterra Prieto. In1854, appeared Geology and Palaeontology subject, that Juan Vilanova y Piera was teaching; laterit was subdivided in Geology, with José Solano Eulate as Lecturer, and Palaeontology with Vilanovaand, after his death, by Francisco Vidal y Careta. The last subject to enter the curriculum wasCrystallography with Francisco Quiroga and Tomás de Andrés y Andrés Montalvo as Lectures.Finally, since 1871, there existed a subject of Botany and Mineralogy that was taught by AntonioOrio y Gómez, and Salvador Calderón Arana.