Alfred Bergeat
Alfred Edmund Bergeat (born July 17, 1866 in Passau , † July 30, 1924 in Kiel ) was a German mineralogist and volcanologist.
Life
Bergeat, whose family had French origins, was the son of the porcelain manufacturer Christoph Bergeat (1821–1888) in Passau, who made it prosperous through the invention of bright gold in porcelain painting. He went to school in Passau, Nuremberg and Wiesbaden . He studied at the University of Munich from 1886 , received his doctorate there in 1891 under Karl Alfred von Zittel and Ernst Weinschenk ( On the geology of the massive rocks on the island of Cyprus ) and was then Alfred Wilhelm Stelzner's assistant at the Freiberg Mining Academy until 1895 . In 1896 he completed his habilitation at the University of Munich ( Der Stromboli (Mineralogy and Geology) ), was a private lecturer in Munich and in 1899 succeeded Friedrich Klockmann as a full professor at the Clausthal mining academy. In 1909 he succeeded Friedrich Rinne as professor at the University of Königsberg , did voluntary military service in the Bavarian Army in the First World War from 1914 to 1917 (but was asked to return to the University of Königsberg as dean) and was professor of mineralogy at the university from 1921 Kiel . There, however, he was already on sick leave from the summer semester 1922 to the winter semester 1923/24 (his successor Kurt Spangenberg took over as substitute ).
He published a monograph on ore deposits (with Alfred Wilhelm Stelzner) and published books on volcanology, after he had already dealt with the volcanoes of the Aeolian Islands ( Stromboli ) in his dissertation . He was considered an outstanding specialist in both areas. To study ore deposits (which he naturally also studied in his surroundings in the Harz and Ore Mountains), he traveled to the Urals, the Carpathians, Hungary and Italy (including Elba) as well as Mexico (at the International Geological Congress 1906).
In 1913 he received an honorary doctorate in Montreal. In 1920 he became a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .
The marine geologist Karl Erich Andrée (1880–1959) was one of his doctoral students .
Fonts
- The Aeolian Islands (Stromboli, Panaria, Salina, Lipari, Vulcano, Filicudi and Alicudi) described geologically, memoranda of the Bayr. Akad. Wiss., Munich 1899 (274 pages)
- with Alfred Wilhelm Stelzner: The ore deposits, 2 volumes, Leipzig: Felix 1904 to 1906
- Outline of the ore deposit history, Jena: Fischer 1913
- Die Vulkane, Breslau: Hirt 1925 (published posthumously by his friend Karl Sapper (1866–1945))
- with Karl Sapper: Vulkankunde, 1927 (petrographic introduction by Bergeat)
literature
- Fritz Pfaffl: Alfred Bergeat (1866-1924), a distinguished volcanologist and ore deposit research scientist at the mining academies of Freiberg (Saxony) and Clausthal (Harz mountains) in Germany, Geologische Rundschau, Volume 99, 2010, pp. 949-954 , pdf
Web links
- Horst Küppers, On the history of mineralogy at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, part 2, communications from the German Crystallographic Society, 2004, no. 28, p. 16, pdf
- Regiowiki
- Kiel list of scholars
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bergeat edited the book from Stelzner's estate
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bergeat, Alfred |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bergeat, Alfred Edmund (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mineralogist and volcanologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Passau |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 30, 1924 |
| Place of death | Kiel |