Siegfried Matthes

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Siegfried Matthes (born September 7, 1913 in Pausa , Vogtland , † May 2, 1999 in Würzburg ) was a German mineralogist and petrologist .

Matthes studied natural sciences and especially mineralogy in Leipzig and Berlin and received his doctorate in 1940 at the University of Leipzig ( biotite-bearing metabasite intercalations in serpentinite deposits of the Saxon-Fichtelgebirge crystalline and their derivation ). He was an assistant at the University of Münster and completed his habilitation in Frankfurt am Main in 1950 .

From 1955 to 1981 he was Professor of Mineralogy at the University of Würzburg .

He is known for his work on the petrography of metamorphic rocks , especially the metamorphic development of the Variscides in southern Germany (e.g. Spessart ). With Martin Okrusch he wrote a textbook on mineralogy which was widely used in Germany and which first appeared in 1983 with him as the only author. With Okrusch he wrote a geological guide through the Spessart. He also worked experimentally, where he was the first to succeed in the hydrothermal synthesis of spessartine - garnet and spessartine - almandine mixed crystals .

He named the chlorite hornblende found in Wenighösbach Hösbachite .

Fonts (selection)

  • Mineralogy. An introduction to special mineralogy, petrology and geology. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York / Tokyo 1983; later editions with Martin Okrusch; 9th edition 2014
  • with Martin Okrusch: Spessart , Borntraeger, Geological Guides Collection 1965
  • The Para-Gneisses in the central crystalline pre-Spessart and their metamorphosis , treatises of the Hessian State Office for Soil Research 1954

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth according to Kürschner, German Scholars Calendar
  2. ↑ Joachim Lorenz : Geologists, mineralogists, mining experts and collectors who were / are active in the Spessart
personal data
SURNAME Matthes, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mineralogist and petrologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Pausa , Vogtland
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1999
Place of death Wurzburg