Arno Schüller

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Arno Schüller (born November 16, 1908 in Friedrichsgrün near Zwickau , † February 27, 1963 in Heidelberg ) was a geologist and professor of petrography and mineralogy .

life and work

Coming from a humble background in the workers' village of Friedrichsgrün, “at the age of 11, he appeared with a rucksack on his back in front of the director of the secondary school in neighboring Zwickau and asked that he be accepted into the school. He gets his way and unswervingly begins his way. "

A scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation enabled him to study natural sciences in Leipzig in 1929 . Here he became a member of the student union Landsmannschaft Hercynia . He gave up his original professional goal of teaching after moving to Göttingen and concentrated on mineralogy. In 1933 he became an assistant at the Leipzig Institute for Mineralogy, received his doctorate there in 1934 and in the same year passed the state examination as a qualified geologist in Berlin.

Schüller developed the descriptive views of his academic teacher Karl Hermann Scheumann (1881–1964) further by bringing the thermodynamic laws of petrogenesis into play with special consideration of the mineral syntheses at high pressures and high temperatures.

In 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht at a research company in Spain. In the rank of first lieutenant he took part in combat missions on the Eastern Front until 1944 . In that year he was released to set up a laboratory for mineral synthesis in Heidenau near Dresden, in which it was possible to produce artificial asbestos .

In 1947 he was appointed head of the mineralogical-petrological department at the State Geological Commission in Berlin . In the following phase of his life, most of his scientific writings arose, especially in the field of geology and sediment petrography. The Humboldt University of Berlin commissioned him from 1952 to give lectures and exercises at the Mineralogical Institute.

In 1958 he was appointed visiting professor at the Academia Sinica in Beijing for one year , and in 1960 he was appointed professor of mineralogy at the University of Heidelberg . In 1955 he was elected a full member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin , and in 1959 he was elected to the Leopoldina in Halle / Saale.

Works (selection)

  • The properties of minerals. Part 1: The external characteristics, especially the ore and rock-forming minerals. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1950.
  • The properties of minerals. Part 2: Mineral-chemical tables and qualitative-chemical detection methods. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Will Kleber: Obituary for Arno Schüller. In: Yearbook of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . 1963, pp. 218-219.
  2. ↑ Max Mechow: Renowned CCER, Historia Academica, Volume 8/9, S. 249th
  3. ^ KH Scheumann: Arno Schüller. In: New Yearbook for Mineralogy. No. 8, 1963, pp. 177-180
personal data
SURNAME Schüller, Arno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedrichsgrün near Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1963
Place of death Heidelberg