Alfred Jentzsch (geologist)

Alfred Jentzsch (born March 29, 1850 in Dresden , † August 1, 1925 in Gießen ) was a German geologist .

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Jentzsch studied mathematics and natural sciences at the Technical University of his hometown and at the University of Leipzig and participated in the royal Saxon geological survey .

In 1875 Jentzsch became a geologist at the Physical-Economic Society in Königsberg and head of the Provincial Museum , whose director he later became. At the same time he completed his habilitation at the Königsberg University . In 1883 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

From 1881 to 1921 he was at the Prussian Geological State Institute (PGLA). He was the royal geologist there in Königsberg and in 1900 wrote a list of natural monuments in East Prussia .

Jentzsch was a Freemason and from 1882 a member of the Zum Todtenkopf and Phoenix Lodge in Königsberg.

Jentzsch, Alfred . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 9, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 195.

The geological-mineralogical literature of Saxony . Leipzig 1874.
About the causes of the ice age . Stuttgart 1873.
Swaying solid land . Koenigsberg 1875.
Report on the geological exploration of the province of Prussia . 1877–78 (2 vol.)
The moors of the province of Prussia . 1878.
The composition of the old Prussian soil . 1879.
Report on the geological exploration of the north German plains 1878-80 . 1881.
Geological map of the province of Prussia (1: 100,000).

↑ PGLA list of geologists
↑ Otto Hieber : History of the United Johannis Lodge to Todtenkopf and Phoenix zu Königsberg i. Pr. Königsberg 1897, self-published by the author