Dietrich Ludwig Gustav Karsten

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Dietrich Ludwig Gustav Karsten

Dietrich Ludwig Gustav Karsten (born April 5, 1768 in Bützow , † May 20, 1810 in Berlin ) was a German mineralogist.

Life

Dietrich Ludwig Gustav Karsten [No. 1–4 of the gender census ] was a son of the mathematician Wenceslaus Johann Gustav Karsten and his second wife Katharina (Margaretha Charlotte), b. Fighter (1738–1779), a Rostock professor's daughter.

Karsten attended Abraham Gottlob Werner's lectures at the Bergakademie Freiberg from 1782 and became a Prussian Bergeleve a year later. In 1786 he began studying at the University of Halle . In 1788 Karsten traveled to Marburg , where, on Werner's recommendation, he was entrusted with the organization and description of the mineralogical collection from the estate of the unfortunate professor Nathanael Gottfried Leske . He published a catalog in which he used his own classification, which was directed against Richard Kirwan's system . After his return he received his doctorate in Halle in 1789 and was appointed professor of mineralogy and mining science at the Bergakademie Berlin in the same year . At the same time, the Prussian minister and chief miner Friedrich Anton von Heynitz appointed the chief mining authority as his personal assistant and travel companion.

In 1792 Karsten was named Bergrat and in 1797 Oberbergrat. In 1803 he was appointed secret upper mountain ridge and lecturing council in the ministry. In the course of the Prussian ministerial reform, Karsten was appointed to the Secret State Council in April 1810 and appointed head of the ministerial department for mining, metallurgy and saltworks. Karsten passed away shortly after taking office. His early death prevented Karsten's appointment as professor of mineralogy at the new Berlin University in Berlin , which was planned by Wilhelm von Humboldt .

In addition to improving his scientific training in the mountain subject, Karsten achieved special merits as the founder of the Royal Mineralogical Collection in Berlin, which he acquired through his private collection and through the acquisition of the mineral collections from the estate of Friedrich Anton von Heynitz, Carl Abraham Gerhard and Johann Jakob Ferber (1743– 1790) was able to expand considerably. He classified them according to the Abraham Gottlob Werner system.

Karsten was u. a. Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences , the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and the Society of Natural Scientists in Berlin as well as in the Lawless Society in Berlin since 1809 and since 1806 he was an honorary member of the Imperial Society of Natural Scientists in Moscow . He was accepted into the Freemasons' Union in Halle in 1787. In Berlin he joined the Masonic Lodge Zur Eintracht . He was a cousin of the mineralogist Carl Karsten .

Publications

  • The mineral cabinet left behind by Mr. Nathanael Gottfried Leske, systematically arranged and described, also accompanied by many scientific comments and several external descriptions of the fossils , Leipzig 1789
  • Mineralogical tables , 1800

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Dietrich Ludwig Gustav Karsten  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The gender census of the Mecklenburg scholarly family KARSTEN was carried out according to a rare alphanumeric scheme: No. 1 was his father, he himself as his 4th child counts as 1-4 , his youngest daughter Marianne (* 1796) as 1-4-2 .
  2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Volume 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Series 3, volume 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 128.
personal data
SURNAME Karsten, Dietrich Ludwig Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Bützow
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1810
Place of death Berlin