Andreas Arzruni
Andreas Arzruni ( Russian Андрей Еремеевич Арцруни ; Armenian Անդրեաս Երեմիայի Արծրունի ; born November 27, 1847 in Tbilisi ; † September 22, 1898 in Hohenhonnef , Honnef ) was a mineralogist .
He was an intern at the University of St. Petersburg . Because of unrest that had broken out, he moved to Heidelberg University at the end of the 1860s . In 1875 he became an assistant at the Mineralogical Museum in Strasbourg . In 1877 he completed his habilitation at the Humboldt University in Berlin and was initially a private lecturer and from 1880 to 1883 curator of the affiliated Mineralogical Museum. In 1883 he became an associate professor at the University of Breslau . In 1884 he accepted a call as a full professor of mineralogy and geognosy at the Technical University in Aachen , where he was also appointed head of the petrographic collection and the scientific museum.
In 1884/85 he was made an honorary member of the Academic Association of Chemists, Miners and Metalworkers , later the Corps Montania Aachen. In 1895 he was elected a foreign corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences .
Until 1896 he undertook research trips in the field of volcanism through Italy, Armenia, the Urals and gold deposits in South America.
Publications
- About the influence of temperature on the refraction exponents of natural sulfates ; Leipzig, 1877
- Physical chemistry of crystals , Braunschweig 1893
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Ludwig Neher: The Corps Montania zu Aachen, 1872-1957 , 1957, p. 21
- ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724: Arzruni, Andreas. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 29, 2019 (in Russian).
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| SURNAME | Arzruni, Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | mineralogist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 27, 1847 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tbilisi |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1898 |
| Place of death | Hohenhonnef |