Gebler was born in
Zeulenroda to a Prussian-Austrian civil servant Georg Wilhelm Gebler and his wife Ernestine Frederika, née von Fickweiler. He was tutored at home followed by studies at the Lyceum in Greiz and went to study medicine and natural science at the
University of Jena. He was also keenly interested in minerals but failing to find a position in that field he chose to study medicine. He received his degree in medicine in 1802 and practiced in Zeulenroda,
Greiz, and then
Dresden. He moved to
St. Petersburg in 1808 and joined the Russian government service in 1809 working at a hospital in
Barnaul, Altai, south Siberia. He married Alexandra Zoubareva and they had five children. He became a Russian citizen in 1836. While located in the Altai region, he explored, collected and described specimens of fauna and flora. Along with
Pyotr Kozmitch Frolov he founded the Barnaul Natural History Museum in 1823. He was visited by
Carl Friedrich von Ledebour in 1826 and
Alexander von Humboldt in 1829. Gebler died in Barnaul and was buried in the Nagorny cemetery which was destroyed in the mid-1930s and has since been restored. The Gebler glacier near Belukha is named after him. A street and a square in the municipality of Zeulenroda-Triebes are named after Gebler. A mollusc
Limnaeus gebleri is named after him. == References ==