Aristides Brezina

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Aristides Brezina (born May 4, 1848 in Vienna ; † May 25, 1909 there ) was an Austrian mineralogist.

Life

Brezina was the son of a lawyer. Even as a teenager he was interested in minerals and was a volunteer at the kk Hofmineralien-Kabinett and already attended lectures at the University of Vienna ( Gustav Tschermak , Eduard Suess , Albrecht Schrauf ) during his high school days . After graduating from high school in 1866, he first studied mathematics, physics and chemistry at the University of Vienna , Berlin and Tübingen, where he received his doctorate in 1872. As early as 1868 he became an assistant at the kk Hofmineralien-Kabinett. In 1874 he qualified as a professor in crystallography and crystal physics in Vienna and became custodian at the Hofmineralien-Kabinett. In 1878 he took over the management of the meteorite collection there as the successor to Gustav Tschermak. He manages the relocation of the museum collections from the Hofburg to the Ringstrasse. In 1889 he became director of the mineralogical-petrographic department of the court museum. In 1896 he retired. Friedrich Berwerth was his successor .

Brezina was particularly concerned with meteorites. The meteorite mineral brezinaite is named after him. With Gustav Rose and Tschermak one to about 1920 used classification scheme for meteorites is named, originally developed by Gustav Rose in Berlin and modified by Tschermak and Brezina. In 1920 it was further developed by George Thurland Prior in London.

He was an honorary member of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland .

In 1877 he married the daughter of the architect and councilor Karl Köchlin.

Fonts

  • with E. Cohen The structure and composition of the meteor iron explained by photographic images of etched cut surfaces , Schweizerbart, 1886, 1906
  • The meteorite collection of the kkNaturhistorisches Hofmuseum on May 1, 1895, Alfred Hölder, Vienna 1896 (the catalog lists 497 locations of the meteorite finds)

literature

  • F. Brandstätter History of the meteorite collection in the natural history museum of Vienna , in G. McCall, A. Bowden, R. Howarth The history of Meteoritics and key Meteorite collections , Geological Society of London Special Publ. 256, 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TE Bunch, LH Fuchs: A New Mineral: Brezianite, Cr 3 S 4 , The Tucson Meteorite , in: American Mineralogist , Volume 54 (1969), pp. 1509–1518 ( PDF 643.3 kB ; p. 6)
personal data
SURNAME Brezina, Aristides
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1909
Place of death Vienna