Adolf Sauer
Gustav Adolf Sauer (born July 10, 1852 in Weißenfels , † May 2, 1932 in Stuttgart ) was a German mineralogist and geologist .
Life
During his studies in 1873/74 he became a member of the Alemannia fraternity on the plow Halle and later of the Arminia Stuttgart fraternity . Sauer received his doctorate in Halle in 1876 on phonolithic rocks from the Canary Islands. Afterwards he was in the geological survey of Saxony and Baden and first director of the geological survey of Württemberg, founded in 1888 . At the same time he was professor of geology and mineralogy at the TH Stuttgart from 1900 to 1923 . During the First World War he was rector of the TH Stuttgart for three years.
In 1885 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
In 1888 he discovered and named the mineral riebeckite , and he also named prismatin . In 1879 he showed on rubble gneisses in the Ore Mountains that gneiss can also arise from metamorphosis of sediments (paragneiss). In 1888 he and Theodor Siegert (1835–1913) demonstrated that loess consists of fly dust (Aeolian origin). Ferdinand von Richthofen had already put forward the thesis after his observations in China, but it only slowly prevailed against the theory of deposits in ice-edge reservoirs.
In 1921 he became an honorary member of the Upper Rhine Geological Association (OGV) and in 1922 an honorary member of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg .
Fonts
- Mineral studies as an introduction to the theory of the matter of the earth's crust, Stuttgart: Kosmos, Franckh 1907
- About conglomerates in the mica schist formation of the Saxon Ore Mountains, journal for all natural sciences 1879
- with Theodor Siegert: About the deposit of recent loess by the wind, Z. Deutsche Geolog. Ges., 40, 1888, 575-582
literature
- Manfred Bräuhäuser , obituary in annual reports Upper Rhine Geolog. Club, 21, 1933, IX-XV
- The Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society, 33, 1933, 355-356, obituary by LJ Spencer, pdf
Web links
- Literature by and about Adolf Sauer in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 437.
- ^ Adolf Sauer's membership entry at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 24, 2016.
- ↑ Mineralienatlas, Prismatin
- ^ Honorary members of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sour, Adolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sauer, Gustav Adolf (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mineralogist and geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weissenfels |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 2, 1932 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |